Narrative Essay On Middle Adulthood

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Middle adulthood is the period beyond young adulthood but, before the onset of old age. Middle age comes with many new physical challenges, from wrinkles to hearing loss to weight gain. In middle adulthood people have many changes in their bodies and minds. I decided to observe my mom and her name is Angela Miller. I choose to do my mom because, she 's an interesting person to me. My mom she 's getting older but, she still look like she 's in her late 20 's. Her hair is just turning a little gray, and she gained a little bit of weight. One thing about her she don 't have wrinkles or anything but, I realize she has a lot of anti-aging creams. It 's not all about looks though because, I know my mom vision is not that good because, she has to …show more content…
I asked my mom what was wrong and at first she told me nothing but, then I kept asking and she was saying she feel like she 's getting old. I just found it kind of weird how we 're going over middle adulthood and that 's one of the things it says in the book. I wanted to make my mom feel better so I was just talking to her telling her she 's not old and she has good health so stop dwelling over your ago but, eventually she started to feel better. Later that day me, my mom and my family all went out to eat and her boyfriend proposed and she was so happy I haven 't seen her that happy in a while. When he proposed I thought about something I read and that was. During middle adulthood, many people 's marriages end in divorce, and many families "blend" together into new households, containing children and stepchildren from previous marriages (Feldman, 2014). I just told myself that I have to think positive and my mom will be ok. Middle adulthood is the period beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age. My mom is in middle adulthood but, she 's still getting use to it and accepting it. In middle adulthood people have many changes in their bodies and minds. I decided to observe my mom and her name is Angela Miller. I choose to do my mom because, she 's an interesting person to

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