Developmental Lab Experience: Transition To Adulthood

Our families are the people we grew up around, whether they are our blood relatives or not. They are the people that make you who you are, though they might not always be around. In the story “House on Mango Street, Esperanza's family plays a huge role in shaping her identity. Throughout the story we are shown how her family, community, culture, and gender impacted her character and actions. In her community, there are Hispanic minorities and people who have lived more unfortunate lives. In fact, her family is a part of this group. Not only are people prejudiced against because of their culture, but the women face sexism from both outsiders and people in their community. Although our identities are influenced by a multitude of factors, the family we are surrounded by in our adolescence end up shaping our identities the most.

Allison`s parents divorced when she was only six years of age. It didn’t take the both of them to remarry. Her mother married a Bulgarian man. A few years later he died of cancer. Four years after his death Allison`s mother married another man who was a Moroccan immigrant. She likes some of the food that was introduced to her by her Moroccan step-father. Because her mother married two men of two completely different cultures Allison and her family were introduced into different customs, food, and traditions.

Ilucion Carlin who also goes by Carmen is a middle-class, nineteen-year-old student and employee I work with at kohls. She is a second generation American with a prominent Mexican background. Ilucion’s parents came to the United States from Mexico looking for a new start and a better education, her father came to the United States at the age of 16 and attended high school in the U.S to receive his diploma. While her mother came to the United States at the age of 19 looking to go to college, however, became pregnant and did not further her education. Since they came from Mexico, they brought along with them the culture and traditions, and it has been an integrative part of her growing up, and help her become who she is today. I choose to interview Ilucion because of her

Sarah’s race, class, culture and gender made it possible for Sarah to lead a happy and successful life. Sarah is a Caucasian female that was born into a middle-class family. Sarah was also the first child of Austin and Sally. Due to the fact that Sarah’s parents were economically stable from the time they conceived her, Sarah’s needs starting from the time she was born were always taken care of. Sarah’s parents were knowledgeable and took advantage of all of the resources that were available to Sarah, resources that she needed in order to advance in life. By the time she finished high school, her parents were financially capable to provide for an amazing group home. Sarah’s race, class, culture, and gender facilitated a better life for Sarah, one which might not have been available if Sarah’s parents were from a different class or culture.

I have learned of the similarities in their hardships, as well was how their experiences diverge. Both of them have struggled with money in their childhood homes, while my mother is the only one to see racism first hand. I hear of how my grandfather moved to the United States to work in Hawaii’s sugar-cane fields, and of how my great-great grandfather emigrated from Scotland to make a life in the country of possibilities, and today I celebrate my heritage and the different cultures I am a part of. America has been known as the melting pot of races, ethnicities, and religions, and it was here that my parents, two people who carry remarkably different histories, were able to come together. It is this idea of an inclusive America that has yet to emerge

Reyna Grande is an award winning novelist and memoirist whose writing is deeply rooted from her experiences and Latina heritage. In her memoir, The Distance Between Us, Grande distinctly recounts her early childhood to her present day life, focusing on her journey from Mexico to America. Grande’s father left the family when she was only two years old to “El Otro Lado,” the United States. Her family was immensely poor and in order to build themselves a house, her father moved to America for a better job and opportunities. Later, he calls for her mother to join him and both leave Grande and her siblings to their overburdened household and abusive grandmother. Grande saw the United States as a higher power that mercilessly stole her parents and caused them to live miserably as “orphans” for years (17). Grande and her siblings suffered much torment after their parents left. Later, Grande persuades her father to bring her to America despite being very young. She then endures to fulfill her father’s expectations and make him believe that bringing her to America was a good investment. Grande’s memoir is heartbreaking as it exhibits her grieving over her parents’ absence and initially not comprehending why they left. Immigration creates countless rifts in families, but there are situations where people simply cannot stay in their home country.

Dr. Miguel wrote about her diverse culture experiences within the U.S., based on her back ground and life up until now. She was able to embrace and incorporate her diversity background to grow mentally. It is important to share, practice and change together, regardless of who we are and where we came

I completely agree with you young children experience developmentally appropriate experience have a better chance to learn and develop.Also, the early developmentally experience is the foundations of the children development. When the teachers use developmentally appropriate materials and activities in the classroom that affect positively all areas of the child. So we can say that developmentally appropriate practice is the tools that should be used in every classroom to ensure the needs of each child are met.

Later that night when my mother saw my naked arms, she looked at me disappointedly. “Tell me, mi amor, do you consider yourself more Mexican or American?” The question jarred me. I had never fully considered the implications of being the first of my family to be born in the United States. I didn’t feel Mexican around Mexicans or American around Americans but didn’t feel American around Mexicans or Mexican around Americans. The confusion settled in the back of my mind, always there as I interacted with others.

Growing up in the middle of two different cultures can be really satisfying for some. But for a minor it can be really confusing. Parents play an important role; they make things easy for their kids, so they can be able to comprehend the differences. When parents transmit the wrong information to their kids, it can carry a lot of problems. This is the story of Esperanza, on “The house on Mango Street”, a novel by author Sandra Cisneros. Her childhood becomes a series of broken dreams and disappointments. She was forced to grow up, when this should come naturally. Plus she talks about how hard it was to be Chicana and be woman.

Thirteen is beginning to realize the admiration she has for her parents. Instead of arguing, screaming, and crying, Thirteen’s become more diplomatic, settling arguments with her parents with words and negotiations. She’s filled with respect for her parents; thankful for never-ending time, work, and efforts spent on her life. Other times, she’s filled with nostalgia, wishing she could travel back to a decade ago, when her parents still read her bedtime stories or sang nursery rhymes with her. It only then that she realizes the precious nature of time, and how every last grain of sand in the great hourglass of life is soaked with importance. Things have changed so quickly over time that Thirteen barely had time to live in the moment than grieve about the

On Tuesday, February 13th, I had the honor of attending a lecture by Margot Parr from Angela Hospice. Margot spoke about her background, decisions she made in her life, and how she found satisfaction in what she is doing now. Margot and her family came to America in the 1950’s from the Netherlands. She didn’t grow up rich, and her family struggled to make ends meet. I found this interesting because she’s a very successful woman that didn’t come from money. It shows that anyone can do what they want, if they work hard enough. Margot started working at the age of 13, which nowadays sounds crazy. At the age of 13, teens are still thinking about friends and what’s “cool.” At the age of 17, Margot joined the army for 3 years as a paramedic during the Vietnam War. When Margot came back home, she became a police officer, but still felt she wasn’t making a difference in people’s lives.

The teen daughter tried to carry on normally, but her life was anything but normal. She could not have friends over to her house, go out with her mother, or just have a typical mother-daughter relationship.

In chronicling the biopsychosocial issues that are part of our society and which are characteristic of the varied life patterns in our modern day society, we analyze the life of a subject who is female and is a Native American. Born and raised in America, the subject is black and is 44 years of age. She has four siblings who include three brothers and a sister. She has no religious affiliation and has been working for the last twelve years. She is presently a retiree from the Department of Conservation (DOC). Her family history has been analyzed below and includes a peek into her ethnic and racial roots and the close relatives she has had.

Heritage shapes a person’s self-identity; it gives them a bit characteristic to their background. It symbolizes where we came from, who we are as a person and how we came about today. The excerpts and videos that I will mention represent the struggles, hardships and prosperities immigrants underwent in order to travel to America in search of a better lifestyle. Each of these narratives brings a new perspective on the progression of immigrants and their roots of heritage that were discovered. Through their hardships and experiences, I am able to learn more about my roots of heritage and my self-identity. Furthermore, I will apply what these immigrants underwent when investigating my heritage from my ancestors. Through, “Barba Nikos”, “The Fat of the Land”, “Coming to America”, “From Vietnam”, “Facing the Great Desolation”, “Journey to America” and Kate Bolduan’s interview, I had the opportunity to learn about the journeys of immigrants and learn more about my own ancestors and their upbringings. In doing so, I came to understand much more about my roots of heritage through these narratives and resulted in my family’s upbringings to their journey to America.