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Who I Have Become
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Who I have become
Joann Lane
PSY 202
Marion Burke
July 4, 2011
My childhood outline 2
I. What my family was like.
A .youngest of three
b. parents divorce
c. working parents
II Childhood memories.
a. being woke up by my dad yelling
b. all the beatings me my sister and my brother got
c. we moved a lot when I was a child
d. my dad use to take us on camping trips each year we passed
III. Job history.
a. fast food worker
b. cashier at a store
c. a teacher at a childcare center
IV What are my personal, professional, and academic goals.
a. good parenting
b. importance of education
c. home owner
d. completing college
My childhood 3
I never would have thought I would be 29 years old and going back to school. I have
planned to go to college right after high school, but life doesnt always happen the way we plan.
In this paper, I will
present a brief description of a few of my childhood experiences that has
helped me become who I am today and analyze some of these experiences using the adult
development theories from this class. I will also tell you about my goals I want to accomplish
in the future. ( Gudy Graduate 2010 PSY 202)
I grew up in a divorce home I never got to enjoy my mom and dad together. Both my mom
and dad were drop outs, and they met when they were in school together. My mom has always
said that my dad use to ride a horse over to my mom house but she wanted nothing to do with
him because he didnt have the best rep in town. One day she finally went out with him and look
in them baby blue eye and was hooked. Due to the way my grandmother was she told them if
they were going to see one another they were going to have to get married so they did. Shortly
after they were married my mom started having kids. By the age of 21 years old she had my
sister, brother,and me.
My earliest childhood memories were of me growing up in Dallas,Texas,as the youngest
of three. My sister is about 4 years older than me and my brother is 2 years older than me. When
I ask my mom what happen with her and my dad she said everything was good until I was a
year old. She said thats when my dad deiced that he didnt want to be a family man and started
going out. One night he went out and was at the wrong place at the wrong time and winded up in
prison for about 7 years. When my dad got lock up she had no choose but to get a job. Due to my
mom not fishing school she had no work experience and could not get a good job. Because she
could not find a job we had to live were ever we could. When she finally found a job that would
My childhood
give her a chance it didnt pay nothing she was only making 2.75 a hour. When you make that
little of money and have three kids to raise you dont have no money for anything else. I was
probably about 3 years old when my mother met one of my step dads. When he came along things
got better because he made lots of money and we were able to get our own place to live. Things
were going good until I was 6 years old and my dad was released from prison. My dad started
trouble with my step-dad because he wanted my mom back but she didnt want him. After a wile
my dad deiced to move on. By that time my mom and step dad divorce and she re marry my
second step-dad. Things went good up until my mom deiced to let our dad have us she was tired
of raising us on her own. Thats when all hell broke lose