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Adolescences is the point in time where changes are happening in life, this includes physical changes to your body. For girls it may be noticing growth of body parts on their chest, hair growth, appetite and best of all acne. While there is a period of time when a girl is expected to start experiencing puberty, the timing and age is different for everyone. Especially the experience, I was 12 when I started to notice changes to my body, and I had no clue what was happening. I also went to a private catholic school so not much information was being shared with us. I knew within my class that other girl had gotten their periods, but at that time it was just the girls of the classes teaching other girls. I was one of the last girls to start their period and i knew such little information and didn't understand what was happening and why. But now obviously i understand my body was going through biological changes and this affect almost everything for me. My self-confidence was terrible, I struggled with eating, maintain good grades and my skin care. It was a very emotional time in my life.

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Responsibility is a big part of adolescents and how you adapt to change along with taking on leadership roles in your own life. Getting a job for me was a little frustrating because I was applying to so many different places and I would go in apply have an interview, and then I would not hear back. This discouraged me because in my head i felt the company had thought that I just wasn't the right fit or I wasn't good enough. Then my dad had expressed to me that I need to be following up with these companies which at the time I had no idea I had to do that. I just thought they have my information they will call me if they are interested. This ended up in me reaching out to my current job and finding out that they did consider me for the job, and we took the right steps to get me in the direction for working with them. This resulted in me starting the job and meeting new people and taking on a major responsibility role. This josb had taught me patience and communication roles and how to deal with situations with parents. For me it a known thing that I wanted to work with kids in my profession whatever that may have been, but it was important to me to get a job that surrounded that area of work.

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Imaginary audience is something that is common for most adolescents at some point in their lives. It is the belief of a heightened sense of self consciousness, the thought that everyone is watching them and judging. I find myself having heavy relation to this topic. I was always so concerned about what people really thought about me. I felt myself constantly comparing myself to others and wanting what they had and so on.

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Social transitions are the time in an adolescent's life when they begin their transition into adulthood and becomes recognized as an adult by their families. I would say that for me personally my transition into adulthood was as funny as it may seem, being added to my family group chat with my aunts, uncles, mom, dad and so on. Just people who were deemed adults in my life. It was an interesting transition going from only speaking to my family in person, to being able to see them talk about real things in the family group chat that would eventually lead to conversations at the next family dinner. I am the middle grandchild on my mom's side of the family and on my dad's side I am the youngest. It's definitely a different dynamic on both sides on my mom's side I am deemed as an adult and having my own life and responsibilities that they sometimes care to ask about. Whereas on my dad's side of the family I am still perceived as a little kid I am rarely spoken to about family drama or any family conversation.

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Family relationships and adolescent development can affect emerging adulthood in many ways. Based on parenting styles, relationships with siblings and family dynamics. Growing up my parents had more of the Authoritative parenting style. They gave me room for error, along with encouragement to try new things. I am the youngest out of my siblings I have an older brother and an older sister. Things were definitely different while all of us were growing up for my brother I believe they had a little bit more rules and along with my sister. When I was a teenager, my parents weren't as strict on me, mainly because I did not do much and I didn't have that many friends and if I did do anything it would be at my house, and I was able to communicate my plans and what I was doing and who I was with. I think my parents developed more of a curfew for me my first year of college just because I would attend more things and I was making more friends. Along with also not living on campus and having a 20 min drive home. During this time my parents also were very understanding of my grades, they understood that I was trying my best and I just had a hard time grasping the material. In high school I was not even close to being a straight A student, but as time when on I learned better study habits and ways to break things down and understand them better. Thanks to my parents for helping me understand my learning abilities better and fine new ways to understand the material.

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Adolescents are in a stage of life where they start developing friendships and relationship with the people around them. They create bonds and common interest with the people around them. This group can change and develop from young ages to their emerging adulthood. I had a close group of friends when I was young but something that i really struggled with was the feeling of belonging with other kids. As I grew up it slowly became easier to talk to people and find common interests. I believe this is due to close proximity to my current friends. I've either met them through school, sports, clubs and by working together.

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Adolescences is the time in life where we are trying new things and experimenting, and this can lead to us to figure out our identity. Throughout my adolescences I jumped everywhere, from different groups and different people. I always felt the need to fit in with a certain group. I always wanted to have that core solid group of friends that I could rely on and could spend majority of my time with. This was not the case, I was considered more of a floater, I would just spend time with whichever group. Not until high school I felt that I belonged with a certain group. This was a group by proximity, it was my teammates, the people I was with 5 days out of the week. It was also something I was good at, and I was acknowledged for it. People looked up to me in some aspects, this became a huge part of my life. I found something I was good at, and I was getting recognition for it and noticed by colleges, and I am thankful enough that I was given the opportunity to play college sports, although my time was cut short. Lacrosse will always be a part of my life and who I am.

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Autonomy is described as the independence and freedom of choosing your own beliefs or values. This is for yourself, not something that your parents have conditioned you to agree with or follow. My own personal experience my first independent choice was deciding what school I wanted to go to. I had to choose between wanting to go to school for psychology or choose to go to school for lacrosse. This was a very hard decision for me to make since there was a lot of outside factors that I won't get into. In the end I chose to play lacrosse, which unfortunately I would later regret, but I think that's also a major part of autonomy is facing your choice YOU made.

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Intimacy is when we start maintaining close relationships and building trust with others. Whether that is romantic relationships or platonic. At a young age I feel like I always kind of noticed the girls and boys in my class getting into relationships or developing crushed and I also had my fair share of crushes. I kind of viewed them as something so cool and like they were the perfect couple or the idea of having a boyfriend. Now majority of my friends are all in happy relationships and that's something that I aspire. But I've come to realize that the friends I have now play a much more important role that having a boyfriend right now. I feel in my point in life right now I'm looking for something more platonic and I hope the day will come when I'm looking for something special with the right person. I would say that the quote I tied in for this week's Padlet applies to me deeply. I fell that in the recent years thinking about how I make people feel makes more of an impact that just conversation or things that I do.

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Achievement for an adolescent can mean a lot of things, whether its graduating high school, getting a job, good grades and so on. It's based on the development of motives and the capabilities someone can reach and this can be rapidly changing throughout an adolescent's life. For myself I think that my best achievement thus far has been me graduating high school. It was a big accomplishment for me because I was proud of myself for all of the work, I had done in high school from the first day of freshmen year to living through a pandemic to graduation day. It felt like I had to drag myself there halfway. But during this time around my junior year going into senior year, I had realized that I had become so curious about how the human brain work and how it can affect a person's behavior, so I had made the choice to go to college to better my education and learn about something that I was very passionate about. The picture above is a picture of me and my best friend Olivia graduation day and it means a lot to me because it shows me that I made it and that I accomplished something in my life.

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Sexuality for an adolescent is fundamentally a crucial and important time for the development of a person sexually. This is a time when you are experimenting and trying new things figuring out what you like or don't like. during this time, it is likely that an adolescent is being influenced by a group or peers about identity or shaping an attitude. The song that I chose above is just a song that I really think describes this section well. I am in no rush to find a boyfriend right now, I would much rather hangout with my friends and have the chance to meet more people and get to know them and then go from there with developing a platonic or intimate relationship with them. As a kid was never introduced to sexuality, I had no clue what it was, until one day my friend had come out to me as bi and I and no idea what it really meant, and she explained it to me so I could understand. But I find that interesting and think about how I grew up going to catholic schools. That may be the reason that I knew little to no information about sexuality and what it meant. Including sexual education in school. In my personal experience I only had two days of sex ed in 5th grade and 1 day in high school for sex ed and that was the very last day of classes before summer break. So, I think it is an important section to go over for adolescents in school.