Janelle's Autobiography by

Family

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 01:28:42 UTC

My family is my everything to me. My parents have given me and my sisters everything we could have asked for and have prioritized us throughout our lives. They provided us with great schools for our education and a space to come to them about any struggles or problems. We are a very tightknit family. We are each other's best friends which helps our family become stronger and stronger each and every day.

My Grandpa

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 01:33:14 UTC

My grandfather is a very important person to me. We have been through so much together and have always been there for one another. Sadly, I lost my grandfather a little over a year ago and I miss him every day. He was my person and my safe place to go to when I needed anything. He is a big part of who I am today and why who I am.

Softball

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 01:38:27 UTC

Softball is a big part of who I am. I have been playing for around 12 years now. I first started at the age of 6 and have played non-stop after. I have gone through 4 travel teams, middle school team, and my high-school team. I have made so many friends and sisters from softball and will forever be grateful I got to play. Although I may be done with softball, it still has a spot in my heart.

My besties

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 01:43:04 UTC

My sisters and me are very, very close. I have older twin sisters. We have gone through so much and that is what made us grow closer together throughout the years. My sisters also play softball, and they played college softball. I have learned so much from them growing up and have looked up to them. They were and still are my best friends and will always be my best friends forever.

Travel

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 01:47:06 UTC

Traveling is such a big part of my life. Me and my family have traveled so much that it became a part of us now. A few places we have been are Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and many cities in Texas. We eventually plan to go to Las Vegas and Paris but that is in the future. When I start my own life, I also would like to travel around the world for a while but these are the places I have been.

Schooling

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 01:51:53 UTC

My parents provided me with such a great elementary school. All my teachers were incredible and the education they provided was amazing. I learned a lot throughout my elementary years. I gained a strong education from my teachers and resources I had in school. My middle school and high school years were great also. I will forever be grateful for the education I was provided with growing up and look at where it has got me.

Friends for life

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 02:00:22 UTC

My friends are everything to me. They are the ones who got me through high school. Some of my friends I have been friends with since elementary, and we grew up together. All of my friends are currently together at school in the valley at UTRGV. I decided I wanted to go off and experience a new place, but I miss them every day. They will always have a spot in my heart.

My culture

jlg7495 — 2025-08-28 02:09:00 UTC

I am from a Hispanic household. I love my culture and am never ashamed to say that I am Hispanic. We love our Mexican food and traditions we do. I am proud and will always be proud of my culture.

Agency

jlg7495 — 2025-09-11 20:05:17 UTC

When I was in elementary school, we did not really get to decide what we wanted to learn. We had to follow by the book and that just made class very boring and I was uninterested. Like we never got to do fun projects like a volcano, or any fun things. We were a very reserved and boring school.

Culture and Community Expertise

jlg7495 — 2025-09-18 20:46:42 UTC

For me culture is such a big thing about me and my life. I grew up with such a big family and always being around everyone. We have so many traditions that we follow and love doing them every year. I feel like it has impacted my life positively by being able to share such a strong culture to other people of another kind of culture. I will have to understand though that when I am working with children in the future, I need to focus on what children learn best with and what ways have they learned things because everyone is different depending on their cultures. So understanding children by their cultures when teaching is a very important thing.

Control and Bias

jlg7495 — 2025-09-25 19:55:59 UTC

My control and bias in my classroom was not the same as Mrs. Bailey. In my elementary classroom, my teachers were very on it about who was a top kid and who was not. My school would even have the top kids on stage in the cafeteria and have other students eat their food and watch. The students who were not the top students were often overlooked and misjudged for not being where the top students were.

Ableism

jlg7495 — 2025-10-02 21:04:00 UTC

To foster child agency, it's crucial to actively dismantle ableist systems through education, accessible environments, and by believing and supporting children when they request accommodations or express their needs. Conditions that enable agency include removing physical and communication barriers, challenging stereotypes, and ensuring children can make their own choices about their bodies, education, and participation in society.

Outdoors

jlg7495 — 2025-10-13 19:32:33 UTC

The more-than-human world is when young children see the world for more than just people living in it. Children create ways to make the more-than-human world better and fun for them. They use their imagination and can make anything into a fun game for them. My relationship with the more-than-human world was very creative. I would use anything anywhere and create a fun imagination in my head and just have fun.

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Gender and Play

jlg7495 — 2025-10-16 20:06:48 UTC

Gender roles did not affect how I played as a child. All of my cousins are guys and we grew up playing football outside all the time. They never viewed me as to delicate to play a rough sport with them. Even with my dad, when he would need someone to help heavy lift things or fix things, he would always ask us girls for help, with the yard even. I was never treated as someone who was delicate and someone who could not do certain things because I was a girl. I was treated the same as boys and even played with boy toys.

Community/Civic Action

jlg7495 — 2025-10-23 19:33:35 UTC

There was times when I was in elementary where I demonstrated civic action. I shared a lot when I was elementary and loved when people shared with me also. It made me feel included in the classroom community and involved with everyone. Some ways children can demonstrate civic action are sharing amongst one another, helping out around the classroom, and just being more involved with the teacher and peers.

Racism

jlg7495 — 2025-10-30 20:05:21 UTC

I have experienced it before with my family and by myself. One time was her at target and I was by myself and it was a white mother and her daughters. Another time I was with my family and we were in Oklahoma at the world series and many white families were being weird with us and were disgusted by us. My race has many privalages because we have an amazing culture and traditions and I am proud of who I am and my race.

Language

jlg7495 — 2025-11-06 21:14:41 UTC

I am bilingual and at home it is very hard because I have to be switching on and off from english to spanish with my grandparents. When I am with my friends, sometimes when I am speaking english, spanish words will slip out and I would feel so dumb after that because I would sound silly. Sometimes it is easy with my family because I can speak spanish freely and not be worried of slipping a few spanish words and being judged.

Trauma

jlg7495 — 2025-11-13 20:27:45 UTC

No key points really resonated with me with this week's topic. For future moments when I work with young children, it can help me how to manage it with the children and how to not retraumatize them.