Overcoming My Past For a Better Future

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Overcoming My Past for a Better Future Debra O’Hearn PSY 202 Loriana Fiorino February 6, 2012 I. What things do you remember about your childhood? a. Parents fighting a lot b. Being made fun of at school c. Doing bad in school II. Favorite Memories a. Getting my first horse b. Camping on weekends c. Birth of my children III. What jobs have you had? a. Waitress b. Convenient store manager c. Sleep Tech. d. Mosaic IV. What would make me happy in the future? a. Getting my degree b. Having a good paying job c. Paying off all my bills Overcoming My Past for a Better Future One would think at the age of 54 I would be thinking about retirement, not taking online classes to better my future or sitting here writing an essay about my past, present and future. Like many other people I had planned on going to college right after high school, but things don’t always go has planned. In order for you to understand where I am today I will share with you some of my experiences that have made me the person I am today and using the Adult Development and Life assessment theories from class as they have applied to me. I grew up with my parents always fighting, with it almost always getting physical. My father was an alcoholic and had a gambling problem. Mom and Dad used to go to the bar almost every night, leaving me in charge of my younger sisters. When we would hear their car coming around the corner we would always turn off all the lights and pretend that we were asleep. This however did not always work because when dad got home he was always looking for something to start a fight. I cannot remember a time either one of them ever made us feel loved or cared for. Children who felt loved and cared for were “Happier and showed greater social and moral maturity as adults than those who felt rejected, neglected, or unwanted” (Witt &
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