Bronfenbrenner Reflection Paper

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Bronfenbrenner believed that a person development was effected by everything in their surrounding environment. The systems include the micro-system, meso-system, exo-system, macro-system, and chrono-system. The individual remains at the center (McWhirter, McWhirter, McWhirter, & McWhirter, 2013, p. 21).
Microsystem consist of the people who come into direct contact with the individual. These people include family, friends, peer, teachers, and mentors. I have a very big family consisting of 3 older sisters and one older brother. I also have many nieces and nephews. My friends were limited due to the fact that no one actually wanted to talk to me. My friends included Cedric, Sylvia, Maralice, and my niece Shelice. Teachers, mentors, and peers
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22). Early on in life I was the child that if I made any noise in class or forgot to take my medication teacher would immediately send me to the office. The office would call my mom and she would either talk to me over the phone or come out to the school on her days off. She often conferenced closely with my teachers to ensure I was on the right track. When I moved to high school things became more consistent and positive between my mother and school. My mother was never the type to do PTA or volunteer work for the school. But she did meet with my teachers when necessary. The experiences from middle school made it hard on me. My social skills were stunted. I often tried to be normal than be myself. I also struggled playing catch up in high school with school work due to the fact that I was placed in remedial classes. Remedial English classes stunted my reading school instead of pushing reading they pushed other things. This maybe one of the reason I dislike reading or see word wrong. I was also put in slower math which I was always bored and was the first to finish. Math was always the class I never got in trouble in because I was intrigued with numbers. After completion of classwork I would help other struggling …show more content…
24). This section will include my father, grandmother, and uncle. This took a huge toile on me emotionally with feeling of being lost. Then the worst happen the home I was born in and grew up in burned to the ground. If it hadn’t been for my faith I don’t know how I could make it. I don’t think music became important to me until I reached college. Growing up I was an R & B fan I listened to N’sync, Usher, Backstreet Boys, Erykah Badu, The Fugees, and anything old School. I was the type of child that would rather be inside studying and watching TV then out in the street playing and getting in trouble. This might also be due to having the type of mother that required for us to be in the house before the street lights came on and there was no back talking. What she said goes and what she cooked we

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