Personal Narrative: My Father's Stage Of Development

In my first interview, I have interviewed my father who is currently 60 years old and works as a machine operator at a technology company in Fremont for over 25 years. During his adolescence developmental stage, he lived in Ameca Jalisco, Mexico with my grandparents. He did not attend college after completing high school because his family was not able to afford it. Since he did not go to college, one of the many jobs he had was to go out in the crop fields to help his father pick up various types of crops to bring back home for supper. In addition, my father was at home most of the time to help my grandparents with preparing supper, complete chores, and feed the animals they had in their backyard. Given that he did not attend college and had to stay home to support his family, he did experience stress …show more content…
Provided that, this affected his transition to the next stage of development which is emerging adulthood. Within this transition, he decided to immigrate to the United States so he will be able to find a job that supports him and send money to his parents back in Mexico. Furthermore, stress did play a role in his cognitive and social domain of emerging adulthood. He started to smoke cigarettes of his way to cope with stress and the lack of social support he had that lowered his self-esteem from his family because his parents were not as appreciative of the work he did in the house. With attention to present day, stress is still influencing his well-being because of the numerous of bills he still must pay off with the minimum wage he receives from his work. At this stage of development, I believe that he should lower his usage of cigarettes, interact more with his friends outside of work, and adapt to healthier lifestyles such as changing his diet and exercising more every day that will help promote his