Adult Learning Essay

As I take the time to reflect through my personal experience during this course I have came to a clear conclusion that there is now an understanding of what the term “adulthood aging” truly means. Through this course, it is without hesitation that I have gained an abundant amount of knowledge over the life cycle of an individual that prepares us when aging. Gaining this understanding has helped me answer the simple question of this paper: “What is aging?” As I take the time to put my thoughts…

twenty-year-old early adult. Matt currently has a girlfriend who also goes to Dordt College, however, he does not have any children. The interview was conducted in the lobby of North Hall at Dordt College, which provided the most privacy and an appropriate environment to conduct a forty-five minute interview. Prior to the beginning of the interview, I composed a list of two additional questions that were not on the given interview list to ask my twenty-year-old early adult subject. At this point…

Being a grown up in today’s world is expected of students by the time they are out of highschool. Everyone wants to be a successful adult when and after they graduate, and there are ways to ensure that. Kids need to realize how important individuality is, kind of like how the Transcendentalist of the 1800’s did. With this being said, they need to be socially active and interact with people, maybe through certain interests, and gain experience. This can be done in person or with technology, which…

toward vulnerability might keep them from reaching a marriage later on in their lives and the knowledge of love. Even though, they might not consider the importance of the healing power of love and intimacy, that cannot be found anywhere just in learning how to love. Reiner is accurate in his observation that hooking up and hanging out have both led to a generation that fears vulnerability because is affecting relationship, this…

What does it mean to “come of age”? To come of age is to transition from being a child to becoming an adult; going through different major milestones/phases in life. You reach an age where you change your place in society. If you are 2 years old, you don’t go to school but when you are 5, you enter elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then you go off the university, then enter to active lifestyle where you learn to depend on yourself to survive. You gain more independency as…

From the moment Melissa was born she was predisposed into the world she was learning every day of her life about the world around us. Melissa’s gross motor skills were normal and she was a quick learner. Gradually Melissa went through normal Physical and cognitive development changes and psychological development changes. Melissa developed physically and cognitively normal as a child with her body, and psychologically. Our parenting style was authoritative with high levels of warmth and demand…

Plan with purpose. Be adventurous, but not directionless. Fear just may be most sensitively felt at this time, because fear is how learning happens. Fear is a teacher unlike any other, and though it may hold the most room for failure, it also holds the most room for success. The margin is wide, so play to the strengths of that emotion, not the weaknesses. Emerging adults gain the most by being inspired, and focused by fear, not paralyzed by it. The likelihood of wasting the transitional period…

11/29/2016 Abraham Samuel The life experience is unique for every individual, guaranteeing that everyone will have a different story to tell. From the time we are conceived, to the time we take our last breath, many changes will occur. Learning how to walk, suck, eat, play, speak, read, run, work, supervise, and so forth, are all examples of cognitive and social progression. It is in our late adulthood, where all of our life has come to a conclusion, and depending on how we have…

Unconditional The legal age of an adult in the United States is “18.” For me, the understanding of adulthood is rooted by responsibility, hardships, pain, and laughter. For many, it is an easy thing; growing up, having their family’s support, living a “normal” life. But, for me, that wasn’t the case. I didn’t wake up one morning believing that it’d be the last day with my family. Today, four years from the very beginning of it all, I can say I am not a statistic of failed foster children. “How…

transitioning from child to an adult becomes even more complicated when society demands physical and mental maturity from children. Being surrounded by people that increasingly glorify sex and alcohol as they get older pressure teens to feel like they need to take part in loose activities. These drastic differences between childhood and adulthood result in emotional turmoil. J.D. Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye illustrates how harmful forcing teenagers into adults can be to their mental health…