Wednesday, November 21, 2007

4th Chunck: Childhood and what it means

in R.D laing's article normal alienation from experience, he states "as adults, we have forgotten most of our childhood, not only its contents, buts its flavour. he is saying as we get older we begin to forgot the full content of our own childhood and become alienated from our ownselves. In a way i agree because as i look back on my childhood i cant feel or have the same falvor as it had when i firsted experienced it.but itis not all true because i can remember things that have mainly impacted my childhood and the important things that have occured.
when i was six years old on a hot summerday, myfather was exterminating a beehive and specifically told me not to go by the beehive. but iwas so anixous to see my mother when shecame home from work i ran to her and the swarm of bees attacked me and i was rushed to the hospital, andever sincethen i been alergic to bees. this is just one example of my memories of my childhood.
when our class went to observe the children in their own classroom environment, i began to remember my experience as i was young at that very age. i began to compare how the the students were acting as we would have acted at that time period. i noticed that the kids had more freedom in their class and were still able to get the required work done. i remember at that age the teachers had more control over students and enforced more rules to follow. certain activities and smells refreshed my own memory about my childhood.