Chapters 7 & 8

Chapter 7 and 8 were both really good chapters. What I really liked about ch 7 was creative thinking. I am glad we had a discussion about it because I do agree kids don't know how to think critically or creatively. I know in school we were always told to think outside the box, but it is hard to do that if you aren't taught how. I really think my Intro to Counseling class helped me think more creatively and use divergent thinking. It really helped when we had to do an assignment about, for example what you would do in a certain situation in a counseling session. I found out real fast there is never one right answer in counseling. It also helped when we had to do our mock counseling sessions because you had to think on your feet and be creative if you didn't know what to say to the client.

The thing I found frustrating about ch 8 was Kohlberg's stages of moral development. I understood it, but there is soooo much to remember and I have a bad memory. I liked the section about family and friends/types of children. I was happy to see a section about step families. The family dynamics in a step-parent household is interesting to me and that's why in an earlier LP when we had to say what we would want to study that's why I picked it. I was hoping to find some insight on my problem, but they didn't discuss half siblings. What I was happy about is it says 70 percent of kids in step-family households say they feel close to the step parent and it said most adjust to the situation fine. This makes me feel better because my half sister has a step dad and our dad just got engaged so now she will have a step mother too, and I worry about her a lot since I don't see her often and don't always know what is going on with her life. I liked reading about types of children to see what I was. I would say I was/am a neglected child/adult. I always had very few friends because as a child I was painfully shy. I still am pretty shy, but I have deffinately come a long way. I really liked that we got to write the test this week. I think it helped me look deeper at the material to really find the main points. Well and I won't lie writing a test is just a heck of a lot more enjoyable than taking one. :-)