City Of Myself Class Analysis

Throughout this class I have often caught myself looking back on my life, and the connections, traumas, and decisions I have made along the way. In looking back some memories were still very real and painful, and others I was able to find closure in my own mind. When I went back and looked at my first writing about myself, it helped me to bring order to my thoughts once again. The first questions that we were asked was, when I felt most attached and when I felt I was least attached. I still feel these times hold those places, but why they hold that place in my heart and mind is so much more clear. I spoke about how I felt very attached and secure when I was growing up due to the close family I was raised in, but after reading “City of One” …show more content…
As I have stated in the past, I am teacher of over thirteen years and work with many young children. Through the years I have had children come through the classroom with many different backgrounds, and this class has helped me to comprehend the effects that their surroundings play a long term effect on them. Sure I knew that children from a single parent home can face different challenges than those from a two parents family. It was this past year, as I was taking this class, that I had a family who the dad suffered from PTSD himself from being in the military for years and could see how the son was now struggling to find his path and struggling from early signs himself. Over the course of school year this far the poor little fella has struggled to bring himself to do his best or to even know what all he can do, because he has almost grown used to everything being crazy and out of control at home. I could say so much more, but will leave it at this course came at a great time for me personally as well as how to help others I have the honor of working with. Thank you for all your help, support and thought provoking questions in the past few