Personal Narrative: My Personal Family Development

Family development continuously changes and grows throughout all stages of life. Pre-birth to age seven is a crucial age for development as it is the time where a child is constantly learning at a rapid pace. Ages seven to fourteen are a difficult time, one in which a child is learning about their likes and dislikes and beginning to form a sense of identity. At the young adult and adult stages, this may be the most difficult time for many people, including myself. This is where a person has to make big decisions in life and have their own independent identity as a person. In this paper, I will be discussing my personal family development in all the stages of life I have lived so far and how they have made me who I am today.

The first stage …show more content…
By this time I had a pretty good understand as to who I was and who I wanted to be. I was always a gentle and caring person throughout my life and I did not want peer pressure or societal influences to change that. In this time of my life my grandmother passed away which was one of the most difficult things myself and my family had to go through. Although it was my maternal grandmother, her funeral was the first time I have ever seen my father cry. This impacted my development as well as my family. My mother took her death hardest with a few months of deep depression. This impacted my family because there was a lot of tension, anger, and sadness lurking through the household almost all of the time. This was also a time my mother had found out her father was not her real father, but her neighbor as a child growing up. This had changed many things about my family. The biggest change this brought about is a change in identity. My mother had learned her real father was an Aboriginal man from a Cree descent. She also learned she had two half siblings, one who passed away in a tractor incident when he was young. My mother being a very strong woman took the information and tried to be as positive as she could. This changed my life as well because I now had a grandfather out there who I had never met, or never would meet as he had …show more content…
Pre-birth to age seven is a time of fast-paced learning and growing. Age seven to fourteen was a time of learning about myself: my likes, my dislikes, my fears, and my dreams. The young adult and adult stages were the most difficult but important and influential stages. Each stage of life has it’s own importance. Each stage is different and everyone experiences them differently. I am thankful and blessed to have my family to be by my side through all the stages of my life so