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Artifact 3 | Relate to Childhood
The monumental childhood experience I chose for this artifact is when my family adopted our first dog. We had finally moved into a house, and I pleaded even harder to get a dog. Finally (finally!) my dad took my brother and I to the local animal shelter, where we adopted a sweet beagle and named her Sheba (I chose the name, I was so honored). She was so small and fragile, I honestly didn’t even know what to do with her at first. I was 12 years old then. Over the 11 years of her life, I learned how take care of someone else. I learned unconditional love, responsibility and compassion, that if I had never adopted her, I would not have learned from anyone else in my immediate circle during crucial years of my life. She played a vital role into shaping me into the “self” I am today.
Caring for Sheba helped shaped my moral reasoning as a preteen and teen, again playing a vital role in my developmental stage, which according to Piaget’s Theory, would have been the formal operations stage. The text is about cross cultural psychology, but the topic of development by itself really resonated with me. I chose this artifact as one of the top 5 because I had always know that taking a care of a pet played a big role in the shaping of self, but putting it into the context of the development chapter, it helped me understand even more profoundly.