A personal experience for me would be when my children were newborns. They always cried whenever someone else held them other than me or dad. The way that i resolved the issue was every time they were around those unparticular people, i would always have them hold them and let them cry a little bit each time. they eventually got use to other people. Now my kids have a bond with all their family and do not ever want to leave their houses.

A personal experience for me would be with my children. My daughter who is 3 is such an independent child. She has always wanted to do things herself. She is the type of independent child that she will want to try something or do something herself first, and if she can't get it then she will ask for help. Sometime, if she's putting her shoes on, me or her dad will ask her if she needs help and she always says, "no, let me do it."

A personal experience for me would be with my special needs son. His dad is always hard on him. Every time he goes over to his dad's house and my son does something and it's not good enough for his dad, then makes him do it again. My son hates when he messes up or makes mistakes because his dad is so hard on him. He has got him to where he doesn't want to try new things because he's scared, he's going to fail.

With my son being special needs, this stage is a hard one for him in school. He is always coming home asking why this child has this kind of lunch or telling me how he doesn't know how to do certain things like the kids in his class. The way I resolve it is I try and explain to him that all kids are different, and they learn at their own pace.

A personal experience with this stage would be when I was 18 years old, I had a full-time job, just graduated high school and had to choose between going to college or being a manager at the place of employment I was at. By this time, I didn't know what my future would hold. I choose to go the manager way because i wanted to be independent and realized that you have to work for what you want in life.

This stage is a little awkward to talk about I think, but I successfully navigated this stage when I was 18 years old. My parents always had the birds and the bees conversation with me and my brothers all the time. I was the smart one out of the bunch and waited unlike my brothers. But I had my son at 21, and then my daughter at 25. Ever since I had my kids, I now isolate myself because it isn't something I want to even think about.

I might be a little young for this stage, but I think a personal experience for this would be me. I'm choosing to go to school to be a special education teacher. The reasoning is because of my son having special needs, it makes me want to help other children who have disabilities or special needs, because I know as a mom with experience what these parents are going through not only with their child struggling but worrying on if the child is getting the help they need in school.

The only personal experience I can say about this one would be about my grandma. She passed away in 2019. She lived to be 72 years old. She was the grandma that lived her life. She would always spoil us grandkids because that's what she loved to do. When she retired, she would always come over every Sunday night and eat dinner with me and my son. She would always say how she loved her life and what she does every day.