My mother’s parents had quite a hostile relationship. My grandmother was pregnant at the time she married my grandfather. When my mother’s father divorced her mother to be with another woman, she became bitter and angry. She would say horrible things about him and she would not allow my mother and her siblings to have any contact with their father. Her mother never remarried, and my mother believes that she was still in love with her father. The lack of communication with her father probably caused
It was my 5th grade ceremony at Anthony Burns Elementary School, and I was standing in line to get my certificate. The school’s principal called my name to accept my certificate for “AB Honor Roll” and “Excellence in Math.” I was looking into the massive crowd, and my mother, along with my Uncle Chris and Aunt Saundra, were cheering me on with jubilant faces. I remember how intense the moment was, and the overwhelming feeling’s of love i received; I was proud. As I made my way across the stage,
boy ,30-year-old mother and 33-year-old father. I have been assigned to work with the 12-year-old regarding his issues with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anger issues, mood disorder, and oppositional defiance disorder. My agency has created several goals for the client to achieve while receiving services such as mastering three coping skills to improve his ability to effectively deal with losses in his life (i.e. the absence of his biological father); identifying seven ways he can respect
topic really close to my heart. Being a woman raised by a working mother without the presence of her husband taught me how strong women can be. My story started being separated from my father when I was only two months old due to my father migrating to the United States. Leaving his family behind in the Dominican Republic was not an easy task. He came to the land of opportunities like many other families, looking to provide a better future for his children and wife. My father would write letters
“Richie” Brown was my father. He was a great leader, mentor, and supportive parent right up to his death in 1998. This paper will give a brief personal history and biographical sketch of my father. The paper will discuss his leadership methods and why I believe they were effective. I will use the Kouzes/Posner leadership model, as outlined in The Leadership Challenge, to analyze the methods practiced by Richard Brown. This paper will list some of his strengths and weaknesses, my personal lessons
unhealthy patterns that run in the family. When preparing my own genogram it was a difficult process to gain information on both sides of my family. I started with the basic information starting with my parents and siblings. Then when I started to expand out to the extending family it was tough due to I didn’t know much about my grandparent on both sides. To get detail information I had to ask my cousin from my father side and my aunt on my mother side. I didn’t get all the information I needed but
Dialectical tensions are essentially the opposing forces of which a relationship works. Every relationship you are involved in should have tension and issues, it’s natural. I have many personal relationships where dialectical tensions are present. By studying interpersonal relationships and the different dialectical tensions, I have realized that I apply the different tensions on a daily basis without even knowing. By growing up with divorced parents, who do not particularly get along, I have had
I interviewed my father, Reynaldo Martinez, who is a 53 year old Salvadoran immigrant and has lived in the United States for 33 years. I posed the topic question of how the treatment of Latinos and Hispanics have changed over his time in the United States, and if it has gotten worse or better. His overall view was that the current political and social environment can sometimes be harsh right now to Latinos, and in his opinion discrimination towards them has gotten worse. He said, “I think there’s
happens when a little girl is raised without her father? When little girls are raised without their fathers it causes them to lose self-respect, feel undeserving, lose hope, and leads them into a state of depression. Iyanla Vanzant participated in a show for Oprah’s Lifeclass. During the show she speaks on what happens when girls are raised without their fathers and she calls these type of girls “daddyless daughters.” According to Iyanla, “the role of a father is to teach his daughter how to be in a nonsexual
Growing up as a child was tough. Something I never thought I would have to go through again. My weekends are starting to become what they used to be. Endless fights, screaming, crying, and protecting my younger siblings and mother from my own father. My father is an all around great person, he’s always been a very independent, humble, hardworking man. He always puts his family first, he makes sure we have food on the table, have clothes to wear, and he goes above and beyond to give us everything