“Why can’t we get into our freaking offense!?” This is all I really remember from Coach McKendrick at halftime last year against Niles North in what was a tough night for our basketball team. Prior to this, we beat New Trier at home and then went on the road and beat the pre-season unanimous vote to win conference, Highland Park, in our first conference game. Before the New Trier game, our game plan was simple: we were smaller, but faster, so we were going to run the court and make this is a fast pace game. We executed our gameplan, and we won.
"The underlying message [the parent's] overinvolvement sends to kids, however, is 'my parent doesn't trust me to do this on my own,' [and this leads] to a lack of confidence."(Bayless,2013,par8). Today’s youth will never reach their full potential unless they are allowed to make mistakes, and use those as tools to learn from and grow from. When parents dictate their child’s every move, they are crippling them. They do them a disservice, by not teaching them conflict resolution skills, social skills, dealing with disappointment, and simple respect.
Giving a young child too much liberty runs the risk of removing their moral compass and leading them down the wrong path. A young person who feels as though they grew up raising themselves could also behave differently and carry anger against their parents. Alternatively, if a child exhibits little or no autonomy. A child’s autonomy is such a dilemma because each and every child develops differently and at different rates.
Growing up, I had always thought of myself as very open-minded and understanding. It was until my senior year in high school that realized that I still had a long way to go before I would be able to make such claims. My high school has a tradition that the senior class goes on a Kairos retreat, on half in the fall and the other half in the spring. Having participated in the fall retreat, I was asked to be a group leader, Although reluctantly, I accepted the position and had mentally prepared myself for leading a group of five classmates though the chaos of our retreat. What I never would have expected though was to have my classmate Nancy put under my charge.
Confession time readers, It’s time to find out what makes us tick, what strategy we employed to make us one of the best. The strategy we used is an ancient, enigmous, trying one; many have tried and failed to comprehend the effectiveness of this strategy, this strategy requires patience, diligence, and faith in my in the Israeli State. This strategy often referred to as ... the do nothing strategy Hold on a second, I don’t mean I did nothing at all. I just meant that while I was relaxing in the comfort of my home, signing deals for US troops to come, ordering soldiers to patrol our borders and skies, then sitting back and watching the mayhem befalling our neighbors and Europe.
The butterfly effect is a well-known concept that is known to many as little to small changes that can make a unique difference to the scenario, and will have greater effects to it. In the article, Chaos by Gleick James, Lorenz had some many interesting examples of the butterfly effect taking action, how certain equations can make that small impact to make the biggest difference in the world. He called the device his Royal McBee. In Lorenz’s system of equations, his small errors proved to be heavily catastrophic. Back in my teenage years, I use to play basketball and in the last few seconds I made the buzzer shot which made a small impact in points but major difference in the winning score.
The parent governs over their child with rules, commands and expectations. In this instance, say, the parent denies the child’s request for permission to go away for a weekend to a concert out of town with friends. The child becomes upset and may possibly say something hurtful. The parent feels responsibility in raising their child in a manner that they deem appropriate and in the best interest of the child, while the child may not, at that time, believe in such an assessment. In addition, the denial of the child’s request brings about anguish in that the parent has the burden of denying the child permission to attend a fun and exciting event.
Austin was sitting on the top of his desk. Staff asked him to sit in his chair. Austin said, “Bitch I will take out the knife in my bag, stab you and slit your throat.” Staff verbal redirected Austin to make good choices. Austin said, “Bitch I can’t care.
According to developmental psychology a person at any age is at a certain stage of cognitive, moral, psychosocial, and physical development. This development is measured by different types of thinking, mental capacity for tasks, physical strength, and reasoning for following rules. Development is easily seen in children. Naturalistic observation is the one of the easiest method to see these developments in children. This is the observation technique I used, while watching a five year old male at Kindercare Daycare at 3:30 on a Friday.
Overworked. That’s the closest word that I could use to describe this week. I feel like this journal is going to be about me just bickering, yet there is some stuff you might want to read about. First of all, I have been sleeping three hours this week because of upcoming midterms, quizzes, and assignments due. I am sleep deprived and mentally drained and as my second year in college I have never had my life drained out of my body like a passing shadow.
I am the child of a Jamaican Immigrant and Bronx native, raised in a single parent lower-middle class family in an affluent suburb, 18 miles outside of New York City. My father was absent for much of the first couple years and constituted monthly visits for most of the first two decades of my life. It wasn’t until I was 16, that I truly started building a relationship with my father and as a consequence my mother was the central influential figure in my life. Growing up there was always a strong emphasis placed on the importance of education, as I watched my mom juggled working two jobs and going to school while simultaneously raising me. She made it clear that the reason she stayed in America was in order to pursue her education and that
The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself what is the next right move, not think about what is the next right move and then from that space make the next right move and the next right move, and not to be overwhelmed by it because you know your life is bigger than that one moment you know you're not defined by what somebody says is a failure for you because failure is just there to point you in a different direction. Nothing about my life is lucky, nothing. Lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don’t believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity, and so what I would say for myself is that because of my hand in hand and a force greater than my own, I have been prepared in ways that I didn't even know I was being prepared for, and the truth is for me and for every person, every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.
