week seven

What drew me in this week was the article “Should you stay together for the kids?” I found it interesting because coming from parents who are still together it makes me wonder how big of a difference staying together if you’re fighting all the time or getting a divorce and staying civil with each other will have on children. I find the research on the mental health of children of parents who divorce very interesting. It bring up a lot of question for me. Does it affect the children more or less that we as a society think it does and is it really better to put the kids in an environment where the parents are constantly fighting? According to the article anything short of abuse and the parents should stay together. Though I think if my parents were fighting all the time and them not being together could solve the problem then they shouldn’t be together. But I feel my thought may be slightly skewed because I grew up with my parents together.

What I can relate to really well this week is stereo typing. In that when I was younger I was stereo typed as being a drunk punk. This due to my piercings, tattoos, pink hair and, partying, a lot of people around me put me in that stereo type and had very strong opinions on who I was, though I did like to party I was not a drunk I held steady jobs.  I feel that this can be related to this weeks studies by the brief details they give in the book on it.

week six

The thing I found interesting this week was the personality type theory. This is a theory proposed by John Holland stating that people find the work they are doing if the main features of the job fit well with the person’s personality. He based this of finding 6 different personality types and what career fields go along best with the personalities.  The thing I would like to ask John Holland would be why these personality types are so vague and where do I personally fit in and how do you pick a career path off of something when you fall into so many different personality categories?

I would say I have a lot of experience with the time school started and how much I slept while I was in high school. I hardly slept during my junior and senior year, this was mostly due to the fact that I had a job and had to find time after work to do school work. I understand the concept of going to bed early is good for your health and schooling, but what about all the homework that doesn’t get done if you go to bed earlier instead of staying up to do it. There would have been a lot that I didn’t learn if I would have gone to bed earlier in the night.

The thing I would like to learn more about this week would be what they talked about in the Frontline video about teen’s brains. Specifically what I would like to know more about is the amount of sleep and how it correlates to grades. That the more sleep and better sleep you get the better your grades will be. Does this go for adults in college to or can we sleep very little and still learn as much? I would also like to learn more about how starting school later can be good and bad for students.

week five

What really caught my eye this week was popularity and rejection and all that goes along with it.  The idea behind this concept that kids have different categories that children usually fall into. The 5 categories are popular children- the kids everyone likes, rejected children- disliked by many kids, controversial children- both liked and disliked by other kids, average children-are liked and disliked by most other kids but not with the intensity of popular, rejected, controversial, neglected children-ignored by other kids. I find it interesting because you see it almost all kids that are in school, I think it’s pretty intriguing that kids know to put people into groups that way. What causes kids to be in a certain category? Is it something that they learn as babies or is it hardwired into them to segregate into groups? The thing I want to remember the most are the things that I can do to help make my children better people and not be one of the rejected kid.

                What I found interesting in the article is the parent-advocating, where the parent is more of a friend than a parent.  And I can relate it to real life because the kids with parent friends tend to be more disrespectful and I see all the time at my work where the kids do something disrespectful ad the parent just acts like the friend that thinks that it is funny.

                There is so much I would like to know more about. Though I think I would love to know more about was just slightly touched and it is bullying. The how’s and why’s of it. Why do kids bully? What can be done to help kid who have been bullied?  What can be done to stop bullying? There’s just so many aspects that go into the inner working of bullies.