Growing Up Dialectical Journal

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, growing up means to grow towards or arrive at full stature or physical or mental maturity. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 3 children experience some growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s, the Great Depression. This growing up is seen through the eyes of Scout Finch. She sees her brother Jem, grow up in responsibility. She sees her friend, Dill, grow up in courage.

Growing up is not an assured stage, but with initiative and motivation, maturity can be reached like it was for the characters. Homer coveys the difficulties of growing up through characters and their evolution in his epic poem, The Odyssey. At first, Telemachus was described as spoiled, this is

In the book Red Kayak the characters J.T., Digger, and Brady all grew up by making mistakes and learning from them. Which is essentially what growing up is learning and growing from experiences and using the lessons that life teaches people to make choices in the future. Decision making usually comes with age and through experiences and all three of the main characters mentally matured throughout the

If someone were to ask me what I learned in high school, I could say a lot of things. I could talk about my Lifespan Development class and how I learned a lot about babies and prenatal care, and how much it helped me when my sister got pregnant and had questions that I always knew the answer to. I could talk about how much it helped me to learn how to multiply percentages in Algebra, because now when I go grocery shopping, I can add tax and know exactly how much money I’m spending before I even get to the register. I could even talk about how after taking a field trip with my Family Studies class, I realized that I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. These are some of the things I learned in high school that prepared me for life or my next step in education.

Coming of age is a time or trials and triumphs in a young adolescent's life. It involves many obstacles that need to be overcome in order to become an adult. However, obstacles are not the only thinking that a youth will encounter. Through the journey, they will happen upon successes and triumphs that will add to the shaping of who they are to become. One can easily assume that the events taking place in the world would have a strong influence on how a young comes of age.

As they go through this stage young people will begin to solve problems more easily and have an appreciation of other people’s views and opinions. However as they are still inexperienced in life a young person may appear immature at times with regards to their ways of thinking and speech. During the Emotional Development stage, a young person will begin to spend less time with their parents and want to spend more time with their friends socialising instead. A young person may also feel conflicted at times, as they will want the affection from parents, however this is usually short lived as the young person will then also reject it when it is given.

While many of these aspects appear quite negative, the transition from adolescence to adulthood is overall one of the largest steps in personal and cognitive development in one's

However, I believe you grow mentally a lot more than physically. You get to experience things you never have before. Your views change. What you think you know turns out be something completely different.

Each year, day, and second, people gradually get more mature but it occurs quickly or gradually in various people. Maturity can be linked with a considerable amount of different things and it brings people to begin to act like adults. Maturity is not dependent on a person’s age because it depends on the person’s experiences in life and who they surround themselves with. People get more mature based off of their experiences in life.

Growing up is a vital part of life. But what does becoming an adult really mean? Many societies consider the 18th birthday the first step into adulthood, others the 21st. However, there is another definition, “An adult is a mature, fully developed person [who] has reached the age when they are responsible for their actions.” * This means that age plays less of a role than many people think; it is really maturity that is important.

When people mature, there is often a specific event that causes them to come out of childhood and into adulthood. Although many small moments contribute to the maturation of a child, there is usually an important event in which the child needs to grow up to comprehend. An example of this is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which is a bildungsroman, where the children begin to mature as adolescents. In the novel, there were specific points of growing up for both of the Finch children. For Jem Finch, the pivotal moment in his maturation and new understanding of the world’s unfairness is his reaction after he receives the verdict of Tom Robinson’s trial.

Adolescent Actions and Their Effects on Maturation. “How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.” -Karl Rahner. From birth a child learns, matures, and grows every day. But how they grow, learn, and mature is dependent on their surroundings and their actions.

“I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.” (Rob Lowe) Various events that happen can mark your life tremendously. They can help you mature in many different ways coming from your background or culture. Many people believe that transitioning to an adult can take time.

I believe that you never stop learning that we obtain knowledge in all aspects of life, but school is a major way that we broaden our horizons. This is one of the reasons I want to pursue medicine, you never stop learn and acquiring knowledge. With knowledge comes determination, achieving high grades and taking advantage of all possible opportunity take determination and determining how much it means to you. Personally, I have been determined my entire high school career to achieve high grades, be in the top of my class, and enter college

When i think of the word grow I think of process and time. Growing physically and mentally are the best types of growth. Mental growth isn’t just maturity ,but it’s being able to fight through difficult situations. Also, mental growth is being