Agents of my life! (the article is so true!)

Gosh the article is nuts. So much in that is true and surprising. First off, the whole day care thing how it doesn’t matter how much you spend, the child has a better chance to have behavioral problems if they attend a day care. I guess after reading it, it sounds kind of obvious. Less time with parents, less bond. that’s what being a teen is all about so why should a parent give away the greatest time in life to bond since once they hit 8, many think they are independent and can own the world.
Universality: a word to an idea in my head. So I am a little patriots teacher and yes the kindergarteners are so sweet, but, they come from an area where people can be a little spoiled. I’m pretty sure this happens in most kindergartens everywhere, but I know for us, it takes some ordering around to get them all to clean up. It could be because that’s what happens at home. Also, I think at least half the class went away on elaborate vacations and some of them didn’t even like it all that much making me think because they have so much, opportunity’s that would be rare to some students, is looked down upon. Basically my point is when they cry for something they want or there is a fight, they don’t always win. They don’t have there parents doing everything for them like defending them. They have to go by the school rules and be equal. Even today, a student gave me those angelic eyes and had a little pout trying to be cute just so I would listen to her. It doesn’t work on us like parents so its cool to see the equality.
“From the people we rub shoulders with at work, we learn not only a set of skills but also a perspective on the world”. - so true. My life has changed so much since I started my first job junior year and my second last may. Working with people in there mid 20’s trying to make ends meet, makes me value my life even more. I know with that job, I couldn’t pay off the car my dad lets me use, but, no matter how much I make, the lessons I learn from all the people I work with will be with me till the day I die. I learned so much about religion and its negative impacts from my manager which helped me formulate my own opinion changing my life forever. I learned how to make smoothies and put together a complicated orange machine. I’ve learned to treat customers with respect. I feel so accomplished to see how much I have learned from work in the last year.
Biggest shocker in this article is how these people actually researched the idea of what makes a ’popular girl.’ Family background, physical appearance, the ability to attract popular boys. Sounds just like my middle school. All the girls who looked pretty and had some sort of a chest and wore make up seemed to have more friends, specially with the athletic boys. And also in the article it says your in or your out of the inner peer group. Boy could that be any truer. The kids in the middle of in and out have it the worst because they know that they can be looked down upon if they don’t wear the right clothing, shoes, or make up making them so critical of their lives and lowers there confidence if they don’t get in. The kids outside either are smart like my cousin who thinks this clique stuff in 6th grade is stupid, or has no confidence what so ever. And the people inside? Now they are the worst, if they mess up everyone knows. And they have a fear that will consume them because they don’t know what it feels like to be outside. This whole idea is what starts people on the wrong path to high school. The ones who are in the core generally from what I’ve seen, end up not being well liked in high school because many students are over the idea of inner and outer circles yet these students clearly are not.
I need to stop talking! Goodnight!