yay for super cheesy school assiments!!

for my child dev. class we have to write 6 papers, and make them meaningful to us -- well there are 3 of them, though well since i cant sleep with this huge headach coming from lack of sleep i might as well start writing them ... enjoy!!


My Dear Sweet Child,
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” that is a quote from a book that your and I will grow to love and quote all the time, just as your grandmother and I did when I was a child. The feelings that the book expresses as I think of you I can’t help but cry tears of joy. I don’t even know you at all, but I love you more then I could ever express. I can’t for those months that I will get to know you better than anyone as you grow inside me. I can’t wait for that day with the doctor places you in my arms and the whole world around me disappears because I know that I hold the world in my arms.
My child, I promise to take care of you. I promise to keep you close and to love you with all my heart. I will stay up with you when you need me to and watch over you as you sleep. Dearest, I will love you as much as my heart will let me, even more then it will. I have waited so long for you and I can’t wait to meet you. I will do my best never to leave you and be there for you when you just need to feel loved.
There will be times in your life that you will feel that you just can’t go on anymore, but, sweetheart, I promise you mommy will always be here for you, day or night. You are my precious child that I have been blessed with; you are the greatest gift that I will ever receive. Not only will you learn from me but I will learn from you. As you grow I will also grow and together our friendship and unbreakable bong will also grow and get stronger through the years.
With Love,
Now & Forever,
Your Mother,
Erin Christina


Dear Mother and Father :D
The way you raised me has made me into the young woman that I am today. You never used the a consistent parenting style on me, sometimes you were one way and sometimes you were another. You were normally sitting in between authoritative and permissive parenting styles. You let us children do what we wanted with every once in a while you would give us your thoughts on the actions we were going to do. You let us grow and make our own mistakes, for that I thank you. You sometimes put your foot down, you are the parent and for that I hated you. You have taken away the freedom I was used to. We were walking all over you, so you had to. We took great advantage of the freedom you gave us; I became a spoiled brat over the years, thinking that it happened a few times that I could just keep going. Well mom said no so I will just go sit on dad’s lap and well there is no way he can say no, and when you guys said no I would throw a fit, and for that I am deeply sorry.
Sometimes I didn’t know what to do because I didn’t know how you guys would react. I am happy and grateful for the way you raised me. For giving me room to grow and to learn, for knowing and keeping faith in that that I would make the right choices. You guys gave me all your trust, even sometimes overly trusted me. I thank you so much!! I love you so much!! I hope that someday when I am a mother raising my own children that I can be as great of a parent to them as you guys were to me.
Mom, Dad, I love you with all my heart,
Love Ya Always,
You little Princess,
Erin Christina


Out of the 13 influences the 3 that mean the most to me are my religion, my personality/peer influence and life events.
My religion has played I think one of the biggest roles in my life. Though I might have not always been the best perfect “Molly Mormon” as I have been getting my life back on track it is the one thing that holds me strong. How wonderful is the knowledge that I have, that I use in my everyday life, either to help me through something or a friend with a problem. My religion has made me who I am today; I know without it I would be lost.
My personality and my peer influence I believe go hand in hand. A lot of who I am is made up of parts of my peers. Yes, sometimes not the best influence, but who they are have become a part of me and the way I am. My close non-member friends back home have called me the “Mormon Slut” because as I hang out with them I do something thing that get the reaction of “WOW, the Mormon just did that!!” I have also had good LDS influences rub off on me, so I stand with the mixed personality, what I like the call the happy medium, of my strong high standards mixed in with a bit of fun and humor. My friends influences have made me, well, me.
Lastly my life event, which have affected the first two things in my life. The things that I have gone through have either helped me become stronger or shook my faith a bit. From there what happened would put me with a certain group of friends. From there was what my personality would reflect. Coming out to BYU-I was a very big life event, here I have strengthened my religion and found the happy place in my personality, I haven’t lost the craziness of non-member friends but continually have the examples of members of the church to keep me on the straight and narrow and make me a better person.