Me As I Know Her

When I think of my life as a child and now as a parent. My views on life have changed to think of how to become a better person and parent. I will briefly discuss some of my life experiences that shaped me into the person that I am. I will also analyze some of the theories that apply to psychological development and how some of these theories pertain to my life. I grew up in a single-family home with my mother finishing school and taking care of my older sister, older brother, my baby sisters and I. A man who was absent from my life, that was my father I did not know. My parents got divorced when I was just an infant. I feel this is where my trust issues come from. I also believe what Erik Erikson theories “in stage one, infants must learn to trust their parents”(Witt & Mosser, 2010, 2.3) which teaches a child to trust others easily. I spent majority of my time with my grandparents who I looked up to. I took my papa as my father because that is all I knew as a child so the few times my father did call I just felt that this was a just a man with the title my daddy. On television I had seen that parents were together like on the Cosby Show and Leave It to Beaver so I did not understand why my mom and dad were not together.
Growing up being the middle child of five children by my mother. Also having a younger sister from my father. My younger sister by my father I did not grow up with so I did not know much about her. As adults we have grown close but I do regret some times that we are not even closer as siblings. I can remember feeling that my mother had favorites for my sisters and still do feel this way as a mother of three children. I try not to treat my children the same way my mother treated me but as “Bandura said that people learn and behave based on observing and imitating models that is, by watching other people” (Witt