As Gabriel turns 18 he seems to be on a great road in life. His physical development has come along nicely and he seems to be very advanced in his athletic skills. His love of baseball has really given him the opportunity to excel. Cognitively, he has developed greatly in these last few years. His emotional development is much better than it was when Gabriel was a child. He now comes to his friends and family with problems and seeks advice when needed instead of bottling everything up and being unhappy alone. He is also very confident in his morality and has strong opinions on what he believes is right and wrong.
I think that my constant involvement in every aspect of Gabriel’s life has made a great impact. Gabriel has always been a very social child but I don’t think that if I hadn’t encouraged him to meet new people and experience new things that he would have stuck to his few close friends and familiar experiences. He also has a lot of musical talent but if I hadn’t encouraged the development of his musical skills, he would have stopped at the middle school level. The same is true with his athletic ability and baseball. Also, I don’t think his moral development would have come also so far if Gabriel hadn’t been able to talk to me about all of his ideas and thoughts about morality and the world.
I think that Gabriel’s moodiness was probably influenced by his genes and thankfully he has learned to control his moods more now. Also, his athletic ability has probably been influenced by his genes. I think that his social personality has been influenced mostly by his genes but also by middle-class American culture. His love of material objects is partly because of his age and wanting to impress his peers.
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