Journal 1

Amanda McBride

SOC312: Child Family & Society

Instructor: Laura Schulz

10-7-2013

If I could go back to my upbringing I think that I would definitely have

chosen different friends, once I got into high school I made new friends and those

friends introduced me to marijuana, alcohol, and cigarettes. I drunk and party

though out high school when around my friends because I wanted to fit in. Now

as an adult I do not party or drink, but I do still smoke cigarettes and I wish I

would have never gotten into smoking. I do think that have a different circle of

friends would have altered my course of life and I would probably not be a

smoker now. I would also have tried to have a better relationship with my mother,

we were not always close while I was growing up, but today as I am older we are

close and have a good relationship.