Reflection on other blogs

After reading other peoples blog posts I discovered that other people have differing opinions on the ideas that surround love and what it means. When looking at these posts i found them to be helpful because there was a lot of good insight into certain ideas that i agreed with. It also made me think more because there was some things that i had never thought about before. Everyone had their own perspective on love so it was interesting to see how everyone viewed it. I also looked at some peoples blogs that we weren't assigned to look at such as Courtney's blog. I thought all of her posts were well written and very insightful. All of these ideas were very helpful and will contribute greatly to my new posts because they added ideas and insight that i never would have thought of. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* HI TINE~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

To love or not to love

Love is an intense emotion that every human being is capable of feeling. Love can be in many forms. Also love can be very complicated. It is a word that can mean something different for every single person. However some people may question the word love for many different reasons. Maybe they love someone and the person dosent love them back of they dot feel the same love for someone that they used to feel. Recently divorce rates have been increasing possibly due to loss of love. Love can be a strong feeling that can happen immediately among two people or develop over time. Love is something that can hold a family together and also tear it apart. Love can also raise many questions such as does the other person feel the love that one person does or do you love someone as much as you should? Love is a very complicated term and can be defined differently by every person in the world.

None is enough

In the article "None is enough" I learned new things about woman and kids that shocked me and made me look at having kids with a new perspective. I have always known that i want to have kid when i am older but after reading the article i found out that some woman also have known from a young age that they dont want to have children when they grow up. Some woman decide they don't want kids because they feel as if they would be a burden seeing how they were a burden on their mother while growing up. Studies from the article show that the birth rate has decreased recently this could be due to many things. Some factors may include money because woman want to have money to do things like travel and pay for themselves instead of having to pay for their children's college funds and other things. Also as the birth rate decreases and woman without children are becoming more common, woman are starting to feel more comfortable with their decision on not to have children. Also not having children used to be frowned upon many many years ago because people felt like it was a woman's job to have kids if they could but now it is becoming more common for woman to just get married and have no children because it is not looked down upon. Another reason why woman are leading a child free life is because of stress and how they grew up. If woman saw their moms having a hard time raising kids and often times losing their patience its possible that it will make them less likely to have kids or want kids. Also woman might want to focus more on their life and their career opportunities rather than having to leave their job to stay home and take care of their children. There are some woman who would much rather go out and work for themselves at a job they love in order to earn money for themselves rather than sit home all day and care for children.

Interview

Me: Robin Murphy is a mother of two. Her daughter is sixteen years old and a junior in high school and her son is nineteen years old and a sophomore in college. She raised her children in Mansfield and they have been living in the same house ever since they were born. Robin is here today to answer a couple of question from me, her daughter about her children and love.
Mom: Hello
Me: Hi mom. I have gathered a few questions that i am going to ask you today about me and Chris.
Mom: Ok
Me: So first off, if you could would you change the age gap between me and Chris seeing now how we grew up together and how we only got to experience one year in high school together before he left for college?
Mom:No, i would not change the age difference at all. I think the gap between you and Chris is perfect. If you guys were any closer in age of further apart in age i think you would fight more than you already do because you would be able to relate to each other or you would share some of the same friends. Also, i think it was good for you guys to experience one year of high school together because you guys became closer and were able to bond more.
Me: Do you miss not having Chris home now?
Mom: Yes i miss not having Chris home everyday but I'm glad he has gained so much independence at college.
Me: Heres a difficult question. Looking back on the early years would you make any changes on how you raised me and Chris?
Mom: No. I wouldn't change a thing about how you two grew up. I think the environment in which you grew up in was perfect and there is nothing i would change about my parenting. All the decisions i made about parenting were made for a reason and I'm confident in the way i raised you guys.
Me: Would you change the location we grew up in or the schools we went to?
Mom: No i think Mansfield was and is the perfect fit for me you Chris and dad. The school system is phenomenal and the atmosphere of Mansfield is great.
Me: Heres another difficult question. What were the biggest challenges you faced when raising me and Chris?
Mom: Hmmm that is difficult. If i had to choose the biggest difficulty it would be dealing with you and Chris fighting all the time and having to have enough patience to sometimes just ignore it.
Me: Was the fighting really that bad?
Mom: You guys would be fighting one minute and then be friends the next but fighting between you two was defiantly a common occurrence.
Me: Why did you choose to have two kids instead of having one or three?
Mom: I always knew i wanted to have more than one child. i grew up having siblings and i cant imagine my life any differently. However after having Chris and you me and your father thought about having a third but we felt that two was an ideal number and we thought having a boy and a girl was perfect.
Me: I couldn't imagine not having a sibling i feel like life would be so boring. My last question for the night is Do you wish I had different friends and is there one friend of mine that really annoys you?
Mom: Yeah you and Courtney are really annoying together but thats ok because you guys are sooooo funny and i love you two.
Me: Thanks for dedicating time to this mom
Mom: Your welcome

Best Friend Love

Daily Exposures

The daily exposures that we have everyday before the beginning of class help me begin to think about different ideas and perspectives instead of just answering a question. I like how there isn't a question that goes along with the song, poem, video, or picture, you just need to talk about it or make comments on it. The daily exposures let me have my own view on the thing that we are looking at and everyone can interpret it how ever they want to. Two daily exposures that i really liked lately was the video called "Flawed" and the song "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue". Both of these left me thinking with new ideas.

Flifferhuzza

One day i was driving around with my friend. My friends name was Courtney. She was driving her car( the BRT which stand for big rolling turd). All of the suddena squirrel ran out into the middle of the road. Courtney couldnt slam on the breaks so she ran righ over the squirrel acting like it was no big deal and yelled FLIFFERHUZZA!!!!! i was shocked because i had never heard the word flifferhuzza before. When i asked courtney what it meant she told me that it is a word that you yell when you run over something. Ever since then, whenever i am in the car with courtney when she runs over something she always yells FLIFFERHUZZA.

Conversation between Brenna and Courtney

B= Brenna
C= Courtney


B- Courtney i cant believe your making me go down this double black diamond! You know we both cant do this!!!!
C- Brenna this is the only way down the mountain there is no other way down and i want to get back down to the lodge to get some food.
B-Fine
(All the sudden Courtney and Brenna start skiing down the double black diamond that is a 90 degree angle screaming "Out of control skiers!!!!!!'
B- Yes!!! i found a trail right here which is much more fit for our level of skiing conssidering we are only novice
C-Ok! its called escape route so it should get us back to the lodge just in time
(go down escape route)
B-Wait Courtney this dosent seem right...
C- No shut up its fine
B- Where the lodge?
C- i dont know i dont see any signs of civilization
B- This isnt good
C- I dont have signal on my Walkie Talkie
B- HELPPPPP
C- Shut up Brenna that will get us no where( proves that Courtney is the instigator)
B- Dont yell at me we dont know where we are and we have to keep calm and get help(proves that Brenna is the smarter and non instigator)
C- Ok well i think i got signal on my walkie talkie ill call your mom and we will be out of here in no time
B- ok

TED talk

The Ted talk i just watched made me realize a lot of things. I completely agree that kids are underestimated and should be able to do more than they do and should be able to be allowed to do things that they aren't. I think that adults these days are trying to have too much control over their children and that children should be able to make rules too. I also agree that students shouldn't just learn from their teachers but teachers should learn from their students too because oftentimes students have good points to add.  Children aren't taking seriously over certain matters sometimes that they should be taken seriously over and adults need to realize more that students are the next generation and need to be taken very seriously in everything we do.

Best Friend Ad

Looking for Best Friend

I am looking for a best friend. However this person must display many worthy qualities that one would look for in a friend. Some qualities include kind, loyal, funny, and dependable.These qualities are all very important when looking for a friend because the friend must be kind not only to you but to everyone else. Also i want a friend that is loyal to me and wont go talk about me with other people and they also have to be trustworthy.In addition to these qualities my friend also must be funny because i like people that make me laugh and that don't bore me. Also my friend must be dependable because i want to be able to count on them and go to them whenever i need help with something. My friend must be trustworthy because i want to be able to trust them with everything.

The T.V.

It may be heard to believe but being a T.V. is actually rather difficult. Day in and day out people are always constantly turning me on and off, changing my channels and making me talk louder or softer. Because of this i am very tired all the time and oftentimes get no sleep because people are watching me for hours on end. Also i feel like people are watching me at all times and i get no alone time at all. However being a T.V. can also be relaxing because you never feel the need to get up and move somewhere else unless your being replaced and when your owners are busy and have no time to use you, you can get your rest. Believe it or not being a T.V. is a hard task.

Enthusiasm

Oftentimes learning can be boring when you have to listen to your teacher talk the whole class or do something such as take notes the whole time. However learning can be fun if children are enthusiastic about it. in order to make children enthusiastic about it the teacher must make learning interactive instead of listening tot he teacher the whole time. Also the teacher should use visual learning so students don't get bored with notes. By making learning more visual and interactive, students begin to like learning because they don't become as bored and because students aren't as bored they begin to learn even more and get more out of it than they would if they were listening to their teacher or taking notes the whole time

Courage

One situation when i needed to have a lot of courage was freshman year in the spring when i decided to tryout for lacrosse. During the winter i decided to play lacrosse because all of my friends were, but the only problem was i had never played before. When tryouts came in the spring i was nervous but i also knew what i was doing was very courageous. I knew it was courageous because i was going up against people that had been playing lacrosse for years. However i stuck with it ad ended up making the team. Thinking back on trouts freshman year proves to me that i was very courageous because i went out and did something that i had never done before and i didn't back down.