Personal Narrative: My Cohort Experiences

Have you ever wondered how your childhood was compared to your grandmothers? I recently interviewed my grandmother about Cohort experiences when she grew up. Cohort experiences factors could be secular trends, politics, or historical context. The cohort effect is socially driven, not developmentally. Therefore, I am going to figure out what my grandmother cohort experiences growing up and learn how they are different from mine. First, let’s start with me and my cohort experiences of growing up. I am considered a millennial baby. I was born in the city of Atlanta in the year 1997.when I was growing up all children had to go to school every day of the week. Throughout my life I was taught to go to college and get a well-paying job. People of my generation are not that religious as our parents or grandparents. The trends of my time was drugs, music, and technology. I remember every kid in my class wanting …show more content…
Her generation was called the baby boomer. She faced many challenges growing up during the cold war era so Americans were worried about dying or getting bombed. So people had a bomb shelter. She said that the only thing that was bad about her time was racism and segregation. When she was young she had to walk a couple miles to school. She also didn’t have to go to school every day. She even told me that school wasn’t mandatory as it is today. She said the kids her age were always outside playing and in church on Sundays. She said the people were so dependent of each other. They ate together on Sundays and shared cloths. When she went to school she said that she didn’t care or even knew too much about college. She said the only jobs she cared or thought about was being a nurse or school teacher. She said that what all the girl her age wanted to be when they got old enough. She also told me that most kid her age wanted to move to the