Sleepover

Literature Review Most literature on parent/child coming out issues pertains to adult LGBT children and is written by social workers, psychologists, and physicians. Very little has been written regarding parents and adolescent coming out conflicts, and even less so about LGBT minorities. Key words: adolescence, coming out, gay and lesbian adolescents, Latino parents and youth, parents, intergroup conflict, social identity, family influence, teenage suicide, parent-adolescent conflict, religion…

Identity Limbo For as long as I can remember, I have always been the “outsider” of my family. I speak differently. I dress differently. I act differently. Essentially, according to my family, I am “whitewashed”. Prior coming to college and learning about concepts such as oppression and Critical Race Theory, I naively took pride in my assimilation into “white culture”; to me assimilation meant success. Still, I never felt like I “fit in” with white people. And despite the fact that I am Hispanic…

Mika Dolan: Friend of Exis Luck and Cat Sanders. She’s the reckless one but very fashionable. She will never leave you hanging though. She is tall 6’ even. She has red hair with golden eyes, and She loves old school Rock ‘n’ Roll. She loves Spongebob. She is a full angel. She is Exis and Cat’s protector. Mika is African-American. Cat Sander: The sensible one. She is 5’4”. She loves anime, and she is very fashion challenged and needs Mika’s help all the time. She has blonde hair and light green…

Chosen Primary Identity Group My chosen primary identity group is being a male. To me, this is different than being a man due to societal standards of what a “man” is like. The male population is very interesting to me because even though they seem to be at the top of the food chain, they face many difficulties just as women do. I am positive that underneath that tough masculine physique plenty of concerns are at play. As a feminist, parts of me hate the male population for sexualizing and…

Starting college in the fall was a major transition from high school. I was at first nervous and anxious to see if college was anything like Summer Academic Institute for Leaders (S.A.I.L.S). When I go here it was a similar atmosphere. Everyone was friendly and the homework load was not as much. At first, I did not feel at home. I felt as I was in a foreign place like summer camp. I would not see my parents on the daily but have responsibilities I have to uphold. It was hard at first but after a…

Currents Solutions Children being deemed unadoptable is a national problem that needs to have a better solution set in place. “Congress in 1993 gave $1 billion dollars to help troubled families” This money was also supposed to be used to help courts improve the way that foster care and adoption court cases were handled. This proved to be inefficient because in 1997 another solution was set in place to help foster get adopted, the solution that was set in place was made by President Clinton. The…

the year was 2008, I was eight years old and living in a cozy cul-de-sac with my mom and sister. The neighborhood looked like a seen from a ‘90s cartoon where all the kids would run out and play until the street lights came on. While I was out with the neighborhood kids my mother was inside in a panic. When the economy crashed so did my parents income we had lost everything, my dad had to return to Africa because since they lacked skilled people on the banking industry. However he did not…

There is an unpleasant experience out in the world that plagues the unfortunate in the midst of the night. Not nightmares, something quite different in fact- sleep terrors. Also known as night terrors, these are recurrent episodes of abrupt terror arousals from sleep, usually beginning with a panicked scream and may include sleepwalking (American Psychiatric Association). Like sleepwalking, sleep terrors are considered a parasomnia—an undesired occurrence during sleep (American Psychiatric…

Olivia Flail Reflection Paper #3 University of South Florida  According to Myers (2001), attachment “builds gradually and slowly over the first year of a child’s life, parent-infant attachment is a child’s first close relationship and, to a large extent a model for all relationships that follow”. This description demonstrates the significance and powerful influence of a secure attachment early in a child’s life. Studies have measured babies quality attachment through a variety of standardized…

said their goodbyes and each gave me a kiss on the cheek with the typical “I love you.” Not knowing it, those were the last words they said to me. Ever. I decided to call a friend over since I had nothing else to do. I asked her if she wanted to sleepover, but she already had plans. I called friend after friend but nobody could come. I couldn't go to my aunts or grandmas or anything because they were nowhere near me, they were all states away. I was just gonna have to spend the night…