Personal Narrative: My Use Of Uniform Dresses

when i was in first grade i remembered that i hated wearing uniform dresses, reason i wore then was because my mother would only buy me uniform dresses. i wasn 't sure why i didn 't like wherein them all i knew was that they weren 't for me and i hated being in them. in elementary school i appeared to my peers as the “tomboy” only because i liked playing all the sports that had anything to do with a ball. i played and i was quite good at it better then most of the boys. So because of this the female peers that i had would say that i was a “tomboy” me hearing this i began to be influenced by the boys to be more like them, i dresses in polos, capri shorts or pants, and burned all the dresses. this behavior of mine was because i felt since i hated dresses that i needed to be more like a boy because i liked sports, running around, and literally wearing asphalt on my shirt and pants. my parents never questioned by i didn 't like dresses or girls or why i was dressing the way i was dressing, they just let it be a stage of my life and they knew one day it would pass. this short anecdote shows two of the three agents of socialization which are …show more content…
one house in north hills where my parents lived and one house in mission hills where my grandparents lived. i lived with my grandparents for my whole life and there i was taught the basic skills of life which were how to crawl,walk,run, talk, read, and write. when learning to write/ scribble i would draw on the walls and then id get into big trouble for doing it. they always told me “writing and drawing is on paper only”. being so young i was already introduced to sanctions. being rewarded when something i did was right and being punished when something i did was wrong, like drawing on the walls. knowing right from wrong and reward and punishment it helped me develop the base of understanding consequences at such a young