Blog 4

1. There was so many topics this week that seemed very interesting to me, it was very hard to pick what that one particular topic that pointed interest to me. I chose chapter 11 out of all of them but the other one that also caught my eye was chapter 13. The reason being why I chose these particular chapters was because one I am married and I love reading about marriage and stores about others peoples full fling marriage. The reason being why I also chose chapter 13 was because it is talking about making it in the midlife, what to expect and what not to except another reason being why I chose this is because my mother has also just started to go thru through the midlife. 

2. There has been many real life experience that I have gone through but I haven't been through the midlife only with my mom while she was going through it. On the other note about marriage I chapter 11, I have had many life experience in my marriage, 'haha, I would hope so'. My husband and I have been high school sweet hearts we have known each other since we where kids. We dated off and on when we where kids growing up and then when we turned 18yr old we got married, I was still in high school my last year and my husband was in the national guard but we are the same age he is just six days older then I am, hahaha he thinks it's funny. At first our marriage seemed like a piece of cake and then it started to get rocking but we didn't let that stop us we have worked hard to understand each others feelings, wants and needs. Just because we where best friends from the begging and then high school sweet hearts doesn't mean that we where not going to have those bumps in the road. But now since we have been married longer we have actually grown closer towards each other it's taken us a long time. In chapter 13 I don't have a life experience my self, but my mom just started to go through this and it was a tough to watch her go through it. At first she wasn't sure what was going on she started to feel funny, her emotions where up and down. Finally she went in to the Dr and he ended up running test come to find out my mom just started to go through menopause and she wasn't to thrilled about it. It took her months to understand the fact that she is was going through it. It wasn't the fact that she knew she wouldn't be able to bare a child anymore cause she already made that choice long time ago, she just knew she was getting older. 

3.    I would like to learn more about marriage and the feelings of the human body when to people are I love the way the body and mind works. There was many thing from then past chapters we had to read and ally of it taught me a lot about my self and the way other people are while growing up to be adult. I learned a lot from these past readings. 

Blog 3

1. What interested me from the readings this weeks was from chapter 7, pg. 271 "Who Are Friends". At first when I came across this topic I knew just then it would be a great topic to read about and also talk about. The reason being this certain section interested me is because I have a childhood best friend and I have many friends but would I really call some of them friends? I wounded why is it that when we are children we usually find friendship that is the same race as us?

2. When I was a kid growing up I moved all over the place because my dad was in the navy after moving so many times and changing schools and making new friends it gets really frustrating when you are a kid having to make new friends all time. I never really had a problems with only picking friends that are my race, I grew up knowing that it is okay to friends with other people who are not in your ethic. Also when I was in the army you had to learn to work together and to treat everyone as a family. I have a best friend like I mentioned before we have known each other since we where kids she is my only best friend that is a girl. I am the type of person that gets along better when males then I do with females. Growing up I had many friends that where my age and some where just a year older. But my best friend she is amazing she is like a sister. In high school I didn't hangout with a bunch of girls it was always just me and my best friend and couple guys friends. My parents on the other hand wished I would of had more girls as friends but I always thought that guys where better at being friends they don't talk be hind your back and they are never trying to be better then you.

3. I wouldn't mind knowing more about how other cloture form friendships? I also wouldn't mind learning more about the brain and how it stimulates our destion making when we are choosing friends.  Overall I really enjoyed reading the chapters this week. 

Reflection Blog 2

1.            Something that I thought that was interesting to me in these last two chapters that we read was out of chapter four, page 131 “Using Symbols”. The reason being that I chose this particular topic is because it still surprises me what kids learn by using just symbols to communicate with one another and sometimes we don’t even know it. The reason being why it interests me is because learning about how we develop and learn how to speak we use symbols to understand the way we speak and so other understand us. It also interests me the way infants communicate with one another using just symbols.  

2.            I chose this because couple years ago I had a really good friend that had a son and he was only 1 years old at the time and we taught him how to say “Thank You”, “More”, “Please”, “Hunger”, and so many other things in sign language that by the time he was almost two he was really good at and a lot of people would be really surprised when they would see him. We using symbols now still as an adult and sometimes we have to use it in the real world when we are helping others like trying to help someone back up in there vehicle we use our hands to make symbols to show someone how to back up with out even having to speak it.

3.             There is lots that I would like to know more about, for example I wouldn’t mind learning more about how else we use symbols in the world. I also would like to learn more about how other people who can not speak how they live there day to day life if they cant speak or here and how symbols that people make help them out every day. I am a big fan of art and I think symbols, speaking, body language is all art it has its own rhythm and its own way of showing someone anyone what you are trying to say. It’s amazing the way the body works and the way we communicate when we are infants and they way others talk to infants.

Reflection Blog 1

1.     Something that caught my eye was when I was reading in Chapter 2 on pg.61 about “Mother’s Age”. The reason being I chose this interesting topic is because now days it seems like there are more teenagers these days getting pregnant then most older women, but I’m not saying I am completely right! I also think that when being a lot younger you think it would be easier for people to get pregnant but for most couples its hard it even get pregnant.  I always thought when I was in my early twenty that my husband and I would be able to have a family but even being healthy at that age and eating right you would think it would be easy. But now I will be thirty here soon in couple years and my whole family are always asking us what are we going to do and the answer to that is that we are going to be doing IVF for the very first time and hope and crossing our fingers that this time we will finally be able to have a family.  Its also asks on pg.61 in paragraph four “ Are older women better suited for Pregnancy?”, and I think yes because older women have developed all the way and usually cause afford to take care of there family then an average young adult who just graduated from high school.  I also didn’t know is that older women have difficulty pregnancies and more complicated labors but like I said you think being older it would be more easier for you to be able conceive and give and easy labor.

2.     Nothing like a life experience has happen this week but I do remember when I was in high school I was a senior getting ready to graduate from a very small, small country town in Athena, Oregon and one of my friends that was a year younger then was pregnant and she was a junior in high school that is scary when you still are living with your parents and you don’t have a job I watched here struggle but she ended up complete high school and pursuing a degree in Nursing. I am at the age now that my husband and I really don’t want to wait any longer and instead of taking that chance of never conceiving we are going to try the IVF and hopefully it works.

3.     I would like to know more about the older ages of pregnancy but I don’t want to get my mind worried of the situation.  If I had unlimited funds to do research on this I would do it.  The reason being is that there is many people just like me who are even more cereuses than I am. Of course if I had lots of energy and time do more research I would take the time out of my day to do it so I could understand it even more.  I would take more time to learn more about the age of women and conceiving and what could make it where more older women where having more children then younger adults.