Tuesday, October 13, 2009

I enjoyed taking the time to interview my grandma, nothing really surprised me since she is my grandma, i already knew alot about her. my teen life is way different from my grandma's. The styles are really different as well as i have a job my whole high school where as my grandma just worked on the farm some. another difference is that only 25 percent of her graduating class went onto college where as almost my whole class will go on to some type of schooling. I think that some things about being a teen back then would be cool, like the fact that movies were only 50 cents and the styles back then would be awesome. I thought the video was really interesting. When your young all you want is to be old and to be able to do things on your own. and when your older all you wish is that you could be younger again. I think as i age i will look back on being a teen and remember all the fun times at school, outside of school, and friends. I will probably look back and think how did i do that. school, work, homework, sleep, and all over again. I think my teen hood as set me up for life to come as an adult. I am very responsible and I think that striving for what i want will help me greatly. What i learned in chapter 4 was the indepth research on nature and nurture. I never thought about how much both sides effect who you are. human genome, hormones, talents are all nature and beliefes, feelings, expectations are all nuture. In chapter 5 i learned about preoperational stage. This theory is stateing that from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age, childnren are too young to perform mental operations. I don't know if that is completeley true because some times you can be sureprised to know how much a child of that age can understand and think. this age children learn to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

3 comments:

  1. I thought what you said about the video is so true, and we can definitely relate. When we were in elementary, we couldn't wait to be in highschool, and now many of us are excited to move on to college. I can relate to feeling responsible too, which will definitely help us in the future. I agree with you that I think many young children, ages 2-7 can perform many mental operations. When I think of the young children I'm around, I'm always suprised at how smart they are already in life. :)

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  2. I enjoyed hearing my my grandpa's teenage years as well. I didn't even think about the whole college difference until i read it in your blog. About 25% went to college! Almost everyone in our class is talking about college plans for next year! I guess times have really changed.
    I have a feeling I'm going to look back to my teenage years, and think, "How in the heck did I do it all?" but at the same time, I know our lives now, are going to hopefully set us up for greatness.

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  3. I agree with what you said about the video. Even now being a senior I can't believe how fast high school went. When I was a Freshmen all I wanted to do was graduate, and go off to college. Now that its coming so close, its a little scary. I will need to make all new friends, and learn all over how to get from class to class. I agree that it would be nice to go see a movie for only 5o cents too!!!

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