When you have a child your whole world changes. You start to think about how everything will affect your child, and how all children don’t grow up in a nurturing family environment. As that child grows and begins to go to school, make friends, and become active in other activities you find yourself learning about some children that are less fortunate. Seeing children in my community go through things such as bullying, addiction, abandonment, or lose of a close relative or friend has shown me that I want to help these children or young adults. I have been that child that was lost and had to deal with the death of a parent and close friend, and I will always remember those who helped me in those times. I want to be that person those kids can …show more content…
Working towards furthering my education in psychology has always been exciting to me. I did not start college going into psychology, but as I was taking my basic classes I entered Introduction to Psychology and was amazed at how this class took my interest so quickly. Before I found psychology I was trying to find my place and that career path I was meant to take, but I couldn’t find that interest in any other field that I attempted and you could tell that in some grades I made. As I continued I knew psychology was what I was made for. I have excelled in all of my psychology classes because it intrigues me in the knowledge that is available and the history of where it started and how we have come to know and learn so much about a human and why they do things. My daughter has a major role in the reason I decided to come back to school and work to finish my goals. She has uncovered a confidence in me that I didn’t know I had. I know this is the right path for me and helping others with their struggles and goals will help insteal that drive into her as well as she gets older and begins to decide what she wants to