self assessment

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Self-Assessment
Dennis grew in the slums of Chile, being the third born in a family of five. Two of Dennis siblings were stepsisters, while the other two were Dennis brothers. Life was hard in the streets, though it was made easier due to Dennis love for football. Dennis is now an adult and married with two kids, both girls. Dennis is a cool, ambitious and talented boy. The boy grew in a religious family and followed the Catholic religion, which is popular in Chile. Dennis is now a professional footballer, playing for Colo-Colo as a midfielder. The passion for football began while Dennis was a kid, where the boy went to train with older kids at the Colo-Colo training grounds. The coaches saw the child’s potential and immediately signed the player at the age of twelve. Dennis loved helping out others, especially at home since the slums faced perennial water shortage. During Dennis teenage years, the teenager was proud of being confident, sociable and respectful. However, during Dennis adolescence stage, the boy began plaiting his hair and dying after some time. The behavior was strange for a boy raised by religious parents. Furthermore, the boy started becoming rude and mainly wanted to be independent. The behavior is synonymous with Erickson theory on role confusion, enumerating that adolescents take up roles which the minors are less knowledgeable (Rathus 10). Dennis admits that much has changed and only hopes his passion for football remains in the foreseeable future.

However, Dennis believes that the support accorded to him by his parents enabled him to transition properly from adolescence to puberty. However, Dennis thinks friends never understood the boy during the adolescence period.
A stepmother raised Dennis after the death of the boy’s mother. The stepmother was a bit harsh on Dennis and his siblings, something Dennis got weary off, during his adolescence stage. However, whenever, the father was around the stepmother acted lovingly to the children, making it hard to report ill-treatment to the father. However, the stepsisters were loving and friendly, unlike their mother. Dennis got along with everyone, except the stepmother. However, in some instances, the stepmother tried to create a wedge between the children by giving the girls more food while the rest only a handful. The behavior was very distasteful. Dennis father was never around and worked during the week. Occasionally, the father was around during the weekend, which was neither enough for family time nor discussing the problems bedeviling the children. During adolescence, the boy began rebelling in public to the mother’s antics. The boy would even smash things to show his disapproval. The father would not understand why his calm and fun loving kid had turned into a vicious child. The absence of Dennis father affected the boy, especially in building relationships with friends. The boy initially had shaky relations with the wife, but after visiting a marriage counselor, things began to change. Dennis parents primarily employed permissive parenting to raise their kids. The form of parenting has few rules and requires little of the child’s input on various tasks. Researchers have confirmed that children raised under such circumstances are likely to be low achievers and obese. The theory resonates with Dennis adolescence years, which were later changed by therapy and counseling.
Dennis is a friendly and people person. The boy loved to play and associate with every person. However, during adolescence stage, the boy began choosing friends and neglecting others. The boy never liked abusing drugs and immediately dissociated with friends that loved abusing drugs. During the same period, the boy related with classmates well and arguably had steady relationships with the group. The team liked swimming, playing football and hanging out a lot. The boy’s friends were amiable, respectful, loving, ambitious and disliked abusing drugs. The group went to the same church and was of the same age. Peer influence within the group reinforced the team’s togetherness, ensuring the group was close. However, as the children grew, Dennis was attracted to one of the girls within the group. The group consisted of four girls and six boys. Sarah was beautiful, sexy and down to earth. Sarah was also attracted to Dennis. The relationship grew over time during their adolescence stage. Sarah later became Dennis lover, and the two shared all manner of secrets. However, Dennis sometimes withheld some secrets primarily relating to finance since Dennis friends used to take their girlfriends out for parties and dinner. Sarah and Dennis became intimate and even planned to get married. Initially, both were committed; however, during their mid-20s, the pair quarreled regularly and ultimately broke off the relationship. The couple broke off after it became evident the two were incompatible. However, Dennis thought Sarah was her lifetime partner. Social development and identity elaborate the self-concepts adolescents’ use during the adolescent period. The concept illustrates how Dennis described himself during his teenage years.
Dennis is a talented footballer. The boy is also academically gifted. The boy began playing football and still enrolled for classes. The boy hoped to be a professional footballer and later after retiring manage a club as a coach. The boy joined Colo-Colo while still a teenager and has progressed to the team’s first team, as their anchor midfielder. The boy has also enrolled for part-time law classes. Dennis likes to live a luxurious lifestyle and hopes that his footballing career will foot his luxurious lifestyle. The footballer hopes to be a multimillionaire in the next ten years playing in European leagues. European leagues are known to pay hefty salaries to their players. The player plans to continue playing at a high level and help the team win the league and the continental title. The player hopes scouts from European clubs will get interested in signing him in the nearby future. The identity achievement theorem best explains Dennis identity achievement. The kid liked playing football and began to go to the gym at an early stage. The family had influenced the boy to take up law education in future, confusing the child at an early stage. Moreover, the kid was fearful a career in football would not pay as well, unlike other careers. However, the kid chose footballing illustrating the child followed through the processes of identity achievement; Identity diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium and achievement.
Dennis follows the Catholic religion. The adult believes in the principles and doctrines of the church. The Catholic religion is synonymous in the nation, due to the church’s influence in various sectors of the economy such as health and education. The church follows doctrines preapproved for Catholics only. The church rules are unique and easy to follow. However, Dennis loathes confessing to the priest during confessions and only did it to please his parents. However, Dennis loves dancing during masses and singing in the choir. Dennis parents are devout Christians following the Catholic religion. Some of Dennis friends are Protestants, who share few doctrines with Dennis religion. However, through hypothetical thought and intuitive thought, Dennis was able to understand the Catholic faith. Hypothetically, Dennis was able to infuse the teaching of the Catholic religion, while intuitively grasping the roles of each subsection in discerning the properties of certain aspects of the faith. Religion has hugely impacted on the boy’s life in being a sportsman. The boy is thankful for his parents in influencing him to follow the Catholic doctrine.
Parents ought to respect their children and accord the siblings, parental love. Children have in the past run away from their parent’s home and gone to live in the streets after their parents absconded from their duties. Parents ought to support their children in their desires and needs. Children have been found to love games; therefore, parents ought to ensure their children get time to play outdoors and also take the children for swimming lessons. Children who have been supported accordingly by their parents are known to be high achievers. Furthermore, it is important to create and enforce rules to ensure parents grow accordingly. Moreover, kids ought to be respectful during their teenage years and be involved in active games; to ensure the children never falls prey to peer pressure. Children should also listen to their parents to avoid constant disagreements that erode trusts between the two parties. Therefore, by following the above rules, children will be able to see out their adolescence stage properly without disagreements.
Works Cited
Rathus, Spencer A. Childhood and adolescence: Voyages in development. Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.