Personal Narrative: What Does It Mean To Be A Child

I hated it. Everything about it made me want to run away. The students, the teachers, my classes, just everything. I sat alone in lunch and I had no friends to hang around with. I got bullied. I was a girl who had just moved out of Canada to New York. I was small, chubby, had glasses, and I wasn’t as attractive as most middle schoolers. I tried to fit in but, it caused me to get bullied even more. Finally, I had the chance to switch schools,

Since I was little reading was a struggle for me. Which caused writing to be difficult for me as well. Teachers and my parents doing everything they could to make reading and writing and overall learning easier for me; however, all this extra help I did not like. Help consisted of eye therapy, doing extra outside of school, and special help in

For me, the change from elementary school to middle school was weird at first. There are plenty of things that would inform my friends for middle school. For example, one thing they could do is always be prepared. Another would be to stay organized as best as possible. A third example would be to keep your grades in check, and by that I mean you should always turn in your assignments.

On 08/28/15 Dakota told his teacher he had an ear ache outside his ear and the ear was visibly red. Later during the day, Dakota was pulled away from the class and told his teacher he and his brother had an argument before school on 08/28/15. The child’s sibling told their father and the father hit Dakota really hard in his ear, against his head; the father did not say anything afterwards. Dakota told his teacher he fell to the ground and his ear quit working. Dakota ran to his mother after the incident and she told him “don’t worry he’s leaving”. Dakota is complaining of ear pain and is telling his teacher his ear doesn’t work. The reporter stated she thinks Dakota may not be able to hear from his ear.

I grew up as the youngest of four girls. While being the youngest child isn’t always the easiest, it has really contributed to who I am today. As the baby, I got to learn from not only mine, but my sisters’ mistakes and successes as well. I learned how to disagree with people calmly and talk things out. I learned to be able to listen to and accept other people’s opinions even if I didn’t agree with them. Being a sibling was what initially started helping me learn how to work well with others.

Our Good Lunch I hated school, so much that I would stay home often. But that strong hatred ended when I came to middle school. Most people hated middle school, but not me, I loved middle school. The new environment helped me meet my best friend, Delia. Delia, unlike me, is someone who isn’t afraid to make new friends.

Middle school was a tough time for me, but it was not always that way in the beginning. During seventh grade, I knew all of my classmates. While I was starting a new chapter in my life, it felt great to have all these friends. I never knew during that time that I would end up regretting that. Something changed one day in the middle of seventh grade and somehow I became the school's outcast. I no longer hung out or even talked to the same people. I turned into the person who was at the end of everyone’s jokes. Luckily, I had a couple true friends that stood by my side through all of this. Almost everyday someone wanted to have a physical altercation with me; that’s just was not how I am, so I never fought back. I continued to let them bully

Well I started Pre-K then I moved to Elmore city. Soon I was enrolled in school here my teacher was Mrs. Smit. Soon I made a friend, Brittany Holt. She became my best friend. I remember when our class took a trip to the train station I sat with he and her older sister. My best friend that I usually didn 't get to see was my cousin Anastasia. She live in the city but she would always come down for camping trips. We were inseparable when we were together. We lost touch around third grade. Then second grade came and I met new friends. I met Mikayla Jones and Emily Williams. Mikayla is obviously still my friend to this day. Emily like alot of my friends moved away. I remember one day on the bus mikayla decided to write a note to my mom and ask if

Growing up, I was always thought that good things come those who wait but growing up I have come to release that was all a lie. If you wait around doing nothing, you won’t get and achieve anything you want. People think waiting for things to happen, it will eventually happen. I was once told by a millionaire that it’s better to take opportunities than to wait on them. You get out what you have put in, so don’t sit around doing nothing.

Stepping into the Adult World During the Great Depression there were many hardships, because of this many children and adolescents had to acclimate to an adult’s point of view. Throughout my life I have also had a significant amount of experience stepping into the adult world. I have had an ongoing boxing match with Sydenham’s Chorea(SC). Sydenham’s Chorea is an extremely rare autoimmune disorder; there are about ? cases of SC per year.

It was a blistery day when I was born on January 28, 1997. I was due a month later, but that was not to be, as my mother Jill had to undergo a c section to have me. I was a whopping 5 pounds, and had to be transported immediately via helicopter from the St. Peter hospital to the Children’s Hospital in the Twin Cities. I had some lung function problems, but I eventually made it out of the hospital and back home. The doctors told my parents that I may have some learning difficulties, because I was a premature child.

(Becoming An Adult) How will you deal with financial decisions in college Many people don’t believe that once you get into your senior year of high school it won’t go by fast. It will be the longest year of your life, but honestly it isn’t. Your last year of high school will be the fastest year of your life, you won’t believe that it’s almost over. But, the one big question that gets asked all the time throughout your last year is what are you going to do after school. Are you going to college or are you going to go to work right away?

Growing up was complicated. My hairstyle resembled a coconut. My teeth were abnormally crooked. Honestly, I was a living disaster. At the same time, I was raised by immigrant parents. In other words, my weekends were spent at Vietnamese school and having the most “difficult” name on the attendance list. The area that I lived in wasn’t as terrible as other neighborhoods, but it was lonesome. There were no children around my age, so most of my time was spent around my family. Since my parents are immigrants, their mindset is focused on work. And only work. My dad always told me that if he wasn’t working that we’d lived under the bridge. I was terrified, so after that exchange, I never complained about my parents working for twelve hours a day.

Identity for an adolescent’s point of view is important. Adolescents are far more self-conscious about their changes and the way they feel. Steinburg states “Although important changes in identity certainly occur during childhood, adolescents are far more self-conscious about these changes and feel them much more acutely” (Steinburg 209). Adolescents care more about their identity and their presences that a child does. While reading the text, I related to a majority of the chapter. I remember going through the process around the time I hit puberty of trying to find out who I was. Every adolescent wants to have a sense of identity, where they know they are becoming someone and they want their peers to notice.

When I was growing up, I thought that I was a perfectly good girl and will always be correct. But that all changed in Kindergarten. I was wrong. I was over of what I thought.