2nd six weeks

So as a disclaimer I missed school on Friday and when I went to update my blogs on Thursday after school I did not see the 2nd six weeks post that I was supposed to respond to, so when I was in Ohio until late sunday night, the blog had slipped my mind.
1. First, today I wore the classic Ugg boots, skinny dark jeans, a white tanktop, and a purple DC zip up. For my accessories, I wore a brown, think leather bracelet, and two silver rings. Second, my future plans consist of going to college, moving out west- hopefully to California- and begginning my career. Third, I love to snowboard, surf, listen to music, and hang out with my friends. I think that what I chose to wear is more nurture, because through how I was raised I developed my own style. I think think that my future plans are both nature and nurture, because even though one of my parents didnt attend college, I was still raised with the desire to go to college and be successful. I was also born into a family who provides me the opportunity to be able to even go to college. Lastly, I think that my favorite pastimes developed through nature, because I fell in love with surfing and snowboarding through my friends and from my love to be active during both seasons. I wasn't born with the love for snowboarding and surfing in my blood.
2.I think that status power in adolescents is so important because growing up they want to be the best and they want to be the most successful. Highschool is full of competition and the strive to be the best, and that is why teenagers want to the highest status power and they want to be better than everyone else. For most teenagers, they don't have very big problems to worry about, so they just strive to be the best.
3. Today, the socialization process for most teens is different than the previous generations. Today, kids are hardly around adults and therefore don't develop the best social skills or know how to talk to adults. For me, I work a job four times a week where I am constantly socializing with only adults - I only have like 2 coworkers who are younger than 18- and through that I feel that I have developed strong social skills and I know how to be mature and interact with adults. For other kids though, they don't always have the same situation. Not knowing how to communicate with adults I feel is slowing the maturity process of children today. Also, some teens hardly socialize at all. TV and video games overwhelm children and they spend more of their time staring at a screen than in the past. While kids should be out and playing and socializing with other people, they are sitting inside either by themselves or with a few others but not talking. I think that overall, technology influences the socialization process for many children today.
4. Some gender differences in the socialization process are developed from the toys that kids grow up with. Girls grow up with frilly, girly toys, while boys grow up with macho, manly toys. From the start, girls grow up by developing different character traits, while boys grow up developing character traits such as strong, tough, and rough. So, the toys that children grow up playing with affect their socializization process. Also, boys tend to like to play big group games, such as football and baseball. Big team sports force the boys to socialize with all different types of people. Then, it is more common for girls to be involved in sports such as dance or other sports where they are more to themselves and involved in their skills, so girls grow up with different groups of people. I think that these differences affect me and my friends personalities and abilities to socialize. Our characteristics were developed by being involved in different activies meant for different genders as children.