Divorcing Parents The one thing that a person never usually wants to hear is that their parents are getting a divorce. During the fall trimester of my seventh grade year in middle school my parents informed me that they were getting a divorce. Knowing what I know now it realized that having divorced parents affected my development. I lost a role model as a parent, financially stability, and emotional support. which drastically changed my life (Kail/Cavanuagh, 2016, p.247). My parents had two completely opposite parenting styles which made a larger effect on me. My mom was the direct instructional parent where she needed to tell me what to do, when and why something must be done (p. 239). My dad was the complete opposite, he didn’t care what
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Now is your chance to meet new people, and make new friends. In seventh grade I thought I made friends that would last a lifetime. When I look back at it boy was I wrong. I made these friends and we became a clique because we all were on the Track & Field team together composing of all white males and females, in the seventh grade. We were an “exclusive” group and had aggression toward others and often resulted in fights (2/29). This was a consequence of the friends I had, and now I laugh looking back at these times. I often was pushing into peer pressure by others causing me to do things that I never would have done (p. 257). My closest friends were two guys and we always did stuff together. During this time Facebook was up and coming. Since we wanted to be “the cool kids” we had fights over social media and often took aggression out online but wouldn’t confront each other face to face. My friends and I liked the attention we got which raised our self-esteem because everyone knew who we were. I was what you considered a popular kid because I was liked by many of my classmates (p. 258). I soon realized that my parents were right and they are not the type of people I should be hanging out with. I found that social media, and video games were the root cause of my issues. I wasn’t being my true self behind the computer screen. I found that I could lie and make things seems better than what they were because I could didn’t have to disclose all my information. My so called “friends” and I would play shooting games that can lead to someone being more aggressive (2/29). While I am still friends with one friend from my original group of friends I had made in middle school I soon realized that friendships don’t last. Middle school is also where people try and find their true identity. We become who we are because of the things we try and find our strengths and our weaknesses. If it was to change what
Now is your chance to meet new people, and make new friends. In seventh grade I thought I made friends that would last a lifetime. When I look back at it boy was I wrong. I made these friends and we became a clique because we all were on the Track & Field team together composing of all white males and females, in the seventh grade. We were an “exclusive” group and had aggression toward others and often resulted in fights (2/29). This was a consequence of the friends I had, and now I laugh looking back at these times. I often was pushing into peer pressure by others causing me to do things that I never would have done (p. 257). My closest friends were two guys and we always did stuff together. During this time Facebook was up and coming. Since we wanted to be “the cool kids” we had fights over social media and often took aggression out online but wouldn’t confront each other face to face. My friends and I liked the attention we got which raised our self-esteem because everyone knew who we were. I was what you considered a popular kid because I was liked by many of my classmates (p. 258). I soon realized that my parents were right and they are not the type of people I should be hanging out with. I found that social media, and video games were the root cause of my issues. I wasn’t being my true self behind the computer screen. I found that I could lie and make things seems better than what they were because I could didn’t have to disclose all my information. My so called “friends” and I would play shooting games that can lead to someone being more aggressive (2/29). While I am still friends with one friend from my original group of friends I had made in middle school I soon realized that friendships don’t last. Middle school is also where people try and find their true identity. We become who we are because of the things we try and find our strengths and our weaknesses. If it was to change what