Final blog for the second six weeks

1. Both nature and nurture had an impact on my life choices and how I make my decisions. I want to be a writer when I grow up, my mom keeps telling me that she knew I would be a writer. She told me that when I was little, I would write these poems that were very advanced for my age, and that I would make up really creative stories (I was three years old by the way), and she would buy me alot of cute little notebooks for me to write my stories in. I remember that when I was in elementary school, my teacher would read alot of short story books, and she had us do, both for projects and in class work, to write our own short stories. Alot of people I knew wrote and read lots of books, which were people who were a bit older than me. And I was always being told that I was really creative, and had really good ideas, and I would also see stories in everything.

2. Social status power is important to almost all adolescents because it's the only power we have that makes us closer to obtaining adult status, and the only thing that we have actually receive power in.

3. The socialization process is more difficult for children today than in previous generations because of the fact that there is a huge gap among children and adults, and that they have no real place in society, making it harder for them to mature socially. Also, socialization in this generation may be harder due to the large advancements in technology. With all these social networks online and reality T.V, kids don't tend to realize most of the things they see on T.V don't really happen, and that talking through a computer isn't really the same as actually talking to somebody, unfortunately, these factors can "bleak en"their social lives, which slows the socialization process.

4. One of the major gender differences in socialization is the way we are taught to behave, or how our society expects us to. Boys are taught to be 'manly' and not to show emotion (crying), whereas girls are taught that showing emotion is ok, it is socially acceptable. i remember that when I was younger (like maybe 9 or so) a boy got frustrated and started to cry, and the teacher didn't do anything but say "oh try to go back to work". But when I started to cry because I messed something up on my little project, BAM! The teacher comes over and talks very calmy and soothingly to me, (and i think the teacher might've given me a hug also) and helped me on my project, but of course, the boy was left alone, being expected to toughen up.