Adult Learning
I always thought that when I was 24 I would be teaching a class of rowdy high school students how to write and English paper but instead I’m the one writing a paper and about myself nonetheless for my teacher. As you will read in this paper about me you will find out how I went from wanting to be a high school English teacher to becoming a preschool teacher, wife and mom. I will use some different developmental theories that we discussed in this class and a few from other sources to take an n depth look into the life experiences that helped to make me the person that I am today. Not only will you discover who I am and why I am but you will also find out who I want to be and how I plan to become that person.
I grew up in Santa Barbara, California. My parents were raised here and I went to the same schools as they went to and grew up in the exact same house that my mom and aunt and uncle did. So everyone in all of Santa Barbara knows someone in my family or myself. Anyways I am a middle child with a brother on either side of me. My brother Ned is five years older than me and he went to live with my grandparents when I was only seven, so I wasn’t very close with him growing up. My brother David is only 22 months younger than me. We were very close growing up and went through a lot of crazy things together. I have some great memories of when we were smaller and I used to make him sit in my room in front of the chalkboard with my stuffed animals and learn his ABC’s, his colors, his numbers and his shapes.
I grew up for the first nine years of my life with my step-dad around because my parents divorced when I was only a few months old. My mom has lupus so a lot of those years were very difficult because she would be in the hospital sometimes for months at a time. When she wasn’t in the hospital she was trying to take us to do as many things as possible because she never knew how she would feel the next day. We had season passes to...
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