My_Past,_Present,_and_Future

My Past, Present, and Future I have always planned to go to college to further my education when I graduated from high school and of course my life had some unexpected turns. In this paper, I wanted to briefly open up on my personal life experiences growing up and analyze the adult developmental theories of how it helped to turn me into the woman that stands here today. I also will speak on the goals that I want to accomplish with getting my bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management and where I see myself in the near future. I grew up with having both of my parents and four other siblings in our household. My mom and dad met when they were going to Douglass High School. My dad enlisted in the army when we were young kids and my mom was your average stay at home mom. She took very good care of all of us. But, of course it became harder on being a single parent taking care of four kids on her own. Once my father completed his time in the army, he came back and helped my mother out with the household. For some reason I think that my mother resented my father for leaving us. Cause ever since he came back, all my mother and father did was argue about everything up under the sun. It hurt us so bad that they were not able to get along and eventually ended up separating when we was just between 4-9 years of age. My daddy took the boys and my mom kept us girls. I and my sister had endured a very hard life living with my mother getting evicted from every apartment that we lived in. We have jumped from school district to school district. At the age of 6 my dad divorces my mother and was awarded full custody of all of us. That was the happiest but sad day of my life, because I missed having all of my siblings around. When I and my sister were at the ages of 10-11 we moved up to Long Beach, California with my grandmother. We stayed there for about 3 years until my dad was able to take care of us financially. In the midst of residing in California I lost my oldest brother. It took me a while to get over that. I and my sister moved backed to Oklahoma a little bit after the bombing of the federal state building. My dad had got married in 1997 to a beautiful woman, who I am proud to call my mother. We had become a family that I have always wanted for a very long time. We had traveled everywhere you can imagine. My favorite one of them all was going to the Bahamas. I loved it there! It was so pretty and extremely hot. I can remember us getting on a glass bottom boat to go out in the water and seeing sharks go underneath us. We were a little terrified, especially because the boat kept rocking back and forth of the currents. I had a great time with my family. Once we had gotten back from our trip my dad and stepmom bought a bigger house for me, sisters, and brother. My brother and my oldest sister ended up getting kicked out of my dad’s house when I was a freshman in high school. I was so sad that I was losing my best friend in the whole wide world. My sister didn’t go far though, her and my brother moved in with my mother. So I was able to spend a lot of time with her still. At the age of 16, I decided to move in with my mother. I felt that she deserve another chance to step up to the plate and be my mother. I loved every moment staying with her and her boyfriend at the time. I was truly spoiled rotten until my older sister moved back in and was pregnant with her first time. I than had to share my bedroom with her and her child. It was very frustrating, but eventually we worked out the space thing. I was attending Putnam City North High School and loving every moment of my high school life. I graduated from high school in year 2001. I worked and lived with my mother until the age of 19. I was pregnant at the age of 20 with my son Omari Love. Me and his father met at high school and dated for 6 years. We are no longer seeing each other, and could really get along at that matter. I have been taking care of my son on my own since he was born in 2004. I have been on and off jobs not being able to find a reliable babysitter to keep him while I work. I am still currently single at this time focusing on getting my priorities and life in order. In our studies of adult development, I was interested in Jean Piaget stages of a child’s cognitive development. It is primarily known as a developmental stage theory, but in fact, it deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans come gradually to acquire it, construct it, and use it. Moreover, Piaget claims the idea that cognitive development is at the centre of human organism and language is contingent on cognitive development. At the core of Piaget's theory, there is the idea of the construction of new structures as “…a passing from a simpler to a more complex structure, this process … being endless” (Piaget, 1968/1971, pp. 54/62). When my child was at the age of one, I notice that he started he started grasping things once he examine the senses and motor skills. He started rolling the ball at the age of 10months. I was the happiest mother to see how he is advancing at the age that he should be. My child is now in the first grade and he is doing a great job. We still have some things that we need to work on such as his numbers and pronouncing his sight words. Reading Piagets theory made me realize again how important education is. According to Piaget, the progressive changes in behavior are made possible by the previously constituted structures enabling the infant to solve similar problems of object permanence at other levels of organization. Piaget considered that various reflex schemes could realize simple forms of permanence, which he qualified as “practical” (Piaget, 1937/1955, pp. 182/210). I have made more time for me to sit down with my child to teach him numbers with flash cards and flash cards with his sight words. I want my son to go to college and be successful. That is what motivated me to go back to college and further my education to become a manager in human resources. I feel that I will be an excellent manager or supervisor overseeing employees. As my journey continues with furthering my education and making sure that my son gets the tutoring that he needs as he develops through the cognitive stages. I planned on finishing college and receiving my bachelors to get me a good stable job to help support me and my son. I want one day to buy my first house, set a college fund up for college, and find me a positive role model in both me and my son life. I want to live happily ever after! 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