Extra Credit

I had issues mostly with curfew and wanting to go places my parents didn’t want me to that seemed pretty unreasonable to me (I felt that way then and looking back they still do now) in high school but those were resolved by the time I went into college. My parents always expected me to do well in school and I have both in high school and college. My friends have been pretty good and I have always been a really social person and although sometimes that was hard for my parents to understand they were relatively supportive both in high school and college. Romantic involvements were not usually a topic that I cared to share with them and they didn’t really ask about either in high school or college. If I brought someone for them to meet they were gracious and probably happy to at least have a face with the person I was choosing to spend my time with. I think now that I am older that has changed a little because we are both more open than we used to be. I can’t say there was a real noticeable difference in our relationships directly from high school to college but definitely over time, and especially because I have children, our relationships have grown and I now enjoy a closeness with both of my parents that I didn’t have before. Probably partly due to my desire to have and build that interaction because I see the great importance. My parents have become more open and feel the same way too.
I am pretty much the same personality and have a lot of the same interests as I did in high school (with some new added interests). I have always had a love for life and trying new things and enjoy spending time with people so that hasn’t changed. A change I see in myself is that I make good choices because I want to, not because I am told to or expected to. So I guess my level of personal responsibility has grown. It also goes a little bit with Perry’s theory of epistemic cognition. I can see the change from dualistic thinking to relativistic thinking and how it benefits my life positively.