Evita Gatpandan
Age: 17
Yr:
Course: BSBA-CA
Organization/Position: CBA/Vice Internals
Hobbies:
reading books, doing arts and crafts, surfing the net, listening to music, going to far peaceful places… I’m also into sports, kungkado, swimming, badminton…
Quote you live by:
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
Describe yourself in one word: Incomparable
How do you see yourself 1o years from now?
…working and maybe living on my own…or starting to have my own family… :)
PERSONALITY TEST::
Evita is a GUARDIAN.
All Guardians (SJs) share the following core characteristics:
Guardians pride themselves on being dependable, helpful, and hard-working.
Guardians are concerned citizens who trust authority, join groups, seek security, prize
gratitude, and dream of meting out justice.
Guardians tend to be dutiful, cautious, humble, and focused on credentials and traditions.
Guardians make loyal mates, responsible parents, and stabilizing leaders.
Guardians are the cornerstone of society, for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have natural talent in managing goods and services--from supervision to maintenance and supply -- and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and businesses.
Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly -- they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.
Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline, and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even though they know that change can be healthy for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap.
Guardians make up as much as 40 to 45 percent of the population, and a good thing, because they usually end up doing all the indispensable but thankless jobs everyone else takes for granted.
Janine David
Age: 17
Yr:
Course: BSBA-CA
Organization/Position: CBA/Assistant Secretary
Hobbies:
playing guitar, piano, percussions, any instruments, composing songs, get into sports like volleyball, basketball, badminton, swimming, dancing, photography, graphic arts
Quote you live by:
There are two ways to live: You can live as if nothing is a miracle; You can live as if everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein.
Describe yourself in one word: unpredictable.
How do you see yourself 1o years from now?
settling down, having my own family, have a stable job, have enough savings to be independent.
PERSONALITY TEST::
Janine is an ARTISAN.
All Artisans (SPs) share the following core characteristics:
Artisans pride themselves on being unconventional, bold, and spontaneous.
Artisans are excitable, trust their impulses, want to make a splash, seek stimulation,
prize freedom, and dream of mastering action skills.
Artisans tend to be fun-loving, optimistic, realistic, and focused on the here and now
Artisans make playful mates, creative parents, and troubleshooting leaders.
Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.
Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. They seem right at home with tools, instruments, and vehicles of all kinds, and their actions are usually aimed at getting them where they want to go, and as quickly as possible. Thus Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.
Artisans want to be where the action is; they seek out adventure and show a constant hunger for pleasure and stimulation. They believe that variety is the spice of life, and that doing things that aren't fun or exciting is a waste of time. Artisans are impulsive, adaptable, competitive, and believe the next throw of the dice will be the lucky one. They can also be generous to a fault, always ready to share with their friends from the bounty of life. Above all, Artisans need to be free to do what they wish, when they wish. They resist being tied or bound or confined or obligated; they would rather not wait, or save, or store, or live for tomorrow. In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow never comes.
There are many Artisans, perhaps 30 to 35 percent of the population, which is good, because they create much of the beauty, grace, fun, and excitement the rest of us enjoy in life.
This study investigated factors associated with adolescent unmarried, nonresident fathers' prenatal involvement with the teenaged mother. The sample consisted of 57 adolescent couples. Father characteristics and social-context factors were expected to predict fathers' prenatal involvement. Results of the multivariate analysis revealed a significant relationship between romantic involvement and fathers' prenatal involvement. Also, interparental conflict was negatively associated with father's prenatal involvement after controlling for romantic involvement. In addition, teenage fathers were less likely to he involved when the young mother had friends with children born outside of marriage, when the adolescent father was unemployed, and when the father scored lower on a measure of empathy.
Group’s Reaction:
It is important for adolescent fathers to be consistent all throughout. They would have to do their responsibilities as a father and be a good provider to his family, even at a young age. He should be able to do whatever he can in order to give his family a good life, where his children especially deserve.
Adolescent fatherhood is often associated with negative stereotyping and deficiencies in the adolescent's situation or characteristics, which effect his investment in child rearing. Developmentally, adolescence is a time when parenthood is not conventional practice nor a well-accepted norm. Understanding how adolescent fathers make sense of transitioning to parenthood allows us to re-think our public representations of young fatherhood. This article seeks to examine the ways that adolescent fathers reconstruct their identity in the midst of becoming a parent. Social constructionism offers a critical approach to the consideration of this transition process. A discursive analysis, based on interview transcripts, looks at the talk of adolescent fathers, and suggests they have a significant investment in their changing identity. Through their language, they actively engage in a process of change that illustrates management of new responsibilities, which arguably develops an attitude of mastery in their lives, instead of ineffectiveness as suggested by stereotyping.
Group’s Reaction:
Entering a new chapter in your life and actually getting into something you’re not so sure about can get really confusing and frustrating. Especially for young males out there who at a very young age, have to carry with them very heavy responsibilities and from that moment on, they’d have to carry this all throughout their lives. Adolescent fathers are having a hard time on managing their identity as to how will they be able to become good parents to their child. Because they are now fathers themselves, they’d have to quit the life they had before, and embrace what’s ahead for their own families now.
By Ruth S. Buzi, Ph.D., Mahasin Saleh, M.S.W., Maxine L. Weinman, Dr.P.H., & Peggy B. Smith, Ph.D.
Adolescent fathers face multiple challenges that impede their ability to successfully function as fathers. They are more likely to have economic and employment challenges than adult fathers. Young African American fathers, in particular, face multiple barriers as they are "under siege" in various sectors of society. Young fathers also face premature role transition which can cause added stress in their lives. The transition to parenthood can be challenging even for many adult parents, young parents need to negotiate both adolescent development and parenthood. Recent attempts have been made to include young fathers in teen parent programs. In order for these programs to be successful they need to be attentive to the fathers' perspectives.
Group’s Reaction:
Our adolescent fathers getting themselves in mature roles can really get exhausting and stressful. Getting into fatherhood programs like this would really be a great help for them to minimize in a way their stress and have a time to relax and break from the hurdles of lie.
By Terence P. Thornberry, Ph.D., Carolyn A. Smith, Ph.D., & Susan Ehrhard, M.A.
Becoming a teen father can lead to negative consequences for both the young father and his offspring. It is important to understand the process that leads some young men into fatherhood while others delay it until they are more developmentally ready. One possibility is that becoming a teen father is part of a more general deviant lifestyle. This paper explores the link between teen fatherhood and other problem behaviors -- delinquency and drug use.
Data from this longitudinal study comes from the Rochester Youth Development Study, which interviewed adolescents and their primary caretaker from seventh or eight grade until their early 20's. Over a quarter (28%) of the young males in this study reported fathering a child before the age of 20. Risk factors for becoming a teen father included high levels of violent delinquency and high levels of drug use. However, once they reached adulthood, the teen fathers were no more likely than the young men who delayed fatherhood to be involved in general delinquency or violent delinquency. A number of implications for this research are explored.
Group’s Reaction:
We are surprised to know that adolescent fathers are engaged in this kind of act. We can’t imagine ourselves actually getting in that kind of situation and relate ourselves that we’re having our own family at an age this young. But as this article provides and tells us, being a young father has many negative consequences attached to it, not only the extra responsibilities you have to be aware of. But we wouldn’t really think the solution to stress and all of this is the use of drugs. Drugs were never reliable, because they make people worse. Not only people, but it ruins lives.
By Marcia J. Carlson, Ph.D.
Little is known about the extent to which young fathers (age 22 and under) are involved with their children over time. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national study on children born to unmarried parents, father's involvement with their child approximately one year after the birth is examined. This research examines three factors that are likely to affect father's involvement with their child: the father's personal characteristics, the child's personal characteristics, and social-contextual influences. Data is collected from both mother's and father's reports. The father's ability to fulfill the provider role and the quality of the parents' relationship were both important factors in father's involvement.
Group’s Reaction:
It is indeed important for fathers, especially those young ones, to be involved before and after the birth of their child. Either the two affects greatly on the baby’s characteristics that can be seen especially when they are already grown ups.
PROGRAM PROPER
DAY 1: ACADEMICS
The following activities will take place at three different locations inside the chosen place for the retreat, the garden, open court and the billiard hall.
ACTIVITY 1: Yoga Exercise
It starts with a yoga exercise at the garden to make our adolescent fathers feel at peace and ease while enjoying the scenery surrounding them. This will provide them a time to relax after long stressful days, weeks, months, they went through. Yoga too can strengthen their body functions and can further develop their health. As they say, life is a unique and complex journey, parallel to the diverse and inevitable changes our bodies and in turn health undergo. This activity aims to associate health and stress. Yoga can also provide the same benefits as any well-designed exercise program, increasing general health and stamina, reducing stress, and improving those conditions brought about by extreme vigorous lifestyles which is exactly what our adolescent fathers need. Through this activity, it will help them reduce their stress, provide them quality and essential relaxation, and cleanse their minds.
ACTIVITY 2: Getting into Sports: Basketball and Billiards
People, especially male adolescents love getting into sports and making those muscles work. A sport is not only a form of exercise but also, enhances our thinking strategic skills. If we are sports minded, we become more smart and intelligent. Sports, in a deeper sense, makes people move towards achieving their goals and bring out the best of them, this learning may not be always realized and learned in a four-cornered classroom. Through sports, our adolescent fathers will become more active, dynamic and deliberate on each of their actions they take and be reminded that each action can cause something, either bad or something good. Also through sports, they become good leaders and become wise in every decision they make.
Through these set of activities, we aim to be able to make these adolescent fathers realize the opportunity to mingle and get to know other adolescent fathers and at the same time, learn from each one of them.
DAY 2: ECONOMICS
These activities’ purpose is to make our adolescent fathers be able to think economically and actually gain something from this kind of thinking. We want to remind each one of them that economics is not always about making money, but rather, making the right choices out of the difficult options in life, taking risks, and become reasonable in terms of money matters.
Activity 1: Film Viewing: “The Pursuit of Happyness”
For the second day of our program, we will be having a film viewing of a movie entitled "The Pursuit of Happyness". The film is about a father whose name is Chris Gardner, a
This film would certainly inspire our adolescent fathers because they can somehow relate to the movie’s storyline. We would want them to realize the importance of being a good father to their children, that fortune and fame doesn’t really matter at all, but the love of a father to his family, the willingness to do whatever it takes, and to be a good provider to your children’s needs is what, what counts the most.
Activity 2: Sharing of insights and thoughts about the film
After the film viewing, they will have their chance to reflect and share thoughts with one another on what they realized or felt during and after watching the film. This will be a time of sharing views that will surely help each one of them to improve oneself as a person and especially as a father.
DAY 3: PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
For the last day of our program, we included very meaningful games for all the adolescent fathers joining the retreat. These games may seem too simple and plain but truth is, in a more profound point of view, these games can actually make you come up with very significant realizations about oneself and life.
Activity 1: The Candle War
This activity’s mechanics would start with grouping all the fathers in a group of four. Each group will be given a candle. Each of these groups will light the candle and place them fixed on the floor wherein that place would be the group’s chosen safe area. The objectives of each group are to hit off the light of the other group’s candle and save the light of your own group’s candle. From here, each group will have to set creative strategic plans on how to be successful on their objectives.
This game may sound really simple, but it requires all hard work and full effort. This is not just a mere game, but rather a test as to how long one is willing to save and fight for something that’s important, whatever and long it will take. That light they are eager to save may serve as an inspiration to pursue their dreams and aspirations for oneself and the family they have already created.
Activity 2: Sinking Game
This game tests their sensitivity, alertness and their cooperation with the other team members. Realization also can be a part of this for if you'll think deeply; this game is not just a game of having fun. This shows how things value to a person, how one takes care of these, and how much can one give or do just to assure the security of a thing or a person. This sinking game tests how a person weighs things. In this game, all the adolescent fathers will be gathered near the sea shore and each of them will be given a boat with stones and colored balls on. The stones and balls on it are just right for the boat to remain floating. A colored ball represents something. For example, green for money, white for family, and the like. Every minute, a colored ball should be replaced by a stone until five colored balls with stones remain on the boat. This is indeed would be difficult for them to identify and weigh things. It is like both are important to you but you have to choose only one for you cannot have both things at the same time.
Realization would be made after the game. The game aims to twig on their minds the complexity of life, that life is not perfect at all. Sure, they have endured obstacles along their way on being a father. Their life before, without an own child having to worry, is of course far easier than actually having one now. But now that they’re already facing a new and a more difficult chapter of their lives, they would have to work harder. What matters and what’s important now is family, and not about satisfying oneself.
Activity 3: Burning of Uncertainties
Then, the last activity happens at night. In the middle of the garden, all the candles will be gathered and lighted. After that, all the adolescent fathers will sit around the candles and each of them gets a chance to share their feelings, learnings and define who they really are. However, their fears, doubts, regrets and frustrations will be written on a piece of paper. Next, that paper will be burned for this night will be the end of those bad memories they’ve been carrying all along; for from this moment will be a new start of a better person not just for himself and for others but more importantly for their families.
INTEGRATION
Justification for the program using the concepts and theories we discussed in class
DAY 1: ACADEMICS
Yoga Exercise
Alfred Bandura’s Stress Management
Based on Bandura’s theory, a person with a high level of self-efficacy has the capacity to influence the environment. One source of self-efficacy is stress management and regulation. The lives of our adolescent fathers have already different kinds of stress attached to it. So, we intended to start the program with a yoga exercise to make them feel relaxed and comfortable. Also, through this activity, they are somehow able to identify their stresses and relieve it through the form of yoga.
GETTING INTO SPORTS
(BASKETBALL AND BILLIARDS)
Carl Jung
In getting into sports, they have to use not only their bodies but as well as their heart and mind. This way, they are able to socialize with others the best way possible. In Carl Jung’s theory, it says how we should deal with the world, inner and outer. Because, we are all unique individuals, we have our own preferred ways on dealing with things. It is suggested that we use the basic ways dealing with the world.
Sensing- In basketball, our adolescent fathers should receive information by means of senses. They would have to be sensing persons who are good at looking and listening all throughout the game. In billiards, they should be aware of what’s happening around them and be observant. This way, they are able to act and decide on the game.
Thinking- Both in basketball and billiards, they are able to practice their rational functions and that involve good decision making. In all these kind of sport, they would have to know the right time, place and instance in shooting the ball. They’d have to know if this is particularly the perfect angle for a shot or not.
DAY 2: ECONOMICS
Film Viewing: “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Albert Bandura’s “Social Learning”
Through the film viewing in the retreat, they are going to be able to learn by examples for they are provided by social models in the film. The film is about a father who’d do anything for his son whatever it takes. Now that our adolescents are fathers already, they would have to do the same thing for their children. The father in the film was able to surpass all the hurdles that came along even when he thought he was at his lowest.
While the adolescent fathers are viewing the film, it is important to establish certain steps Bandura made which involved in the modeling processes.
Attention- If you are going to learn anything, you have to be paying attention. Likewise, anything that puts a damper on attention is going to decrease learning, including observational learning.
Retention- You must also be able to retain, remember, what you have paid attention to. This is where imagery and language come in: we store what we have seen the model doing in the form of mental images or verbal descriptions. When so stored, you can later bring up the image or description so that you can reproduce it with your own behavior.
Sharing of insights and thoughts about the film
Alfred Bandura’s Self-regulation
Upon watching the film, they should be able to reflect well on it and observe themselves and their behavior as well as how they can relate with the entire story of the film.
Self-observation- We take a look on ourselves in front of a mirror and identify who we are as persons. Especially, as a father.
Judgment- During this step, we are able to compare what we see with a standard. To be able to reflect well, comparing ourselves from what we’ve seen and noticed is a good thing to do. This makes us realize our wrong doings and shortcomings as an individual tasked with certain responsibilities. From realizations, we are able to act our tasks well with high confidence. Furthermore, we are able to influence the environment on how we would like it to be.
DAY 3: PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
The Candle WAR
Albert Bandura
In his theory, he looked at personality as an interaction among the environment, behavior and person’s psychological processes.
Through this activity, sensitivity is practiced, so as deep thinking of strategies of keeping the candle alive.
Sinking Game
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
It explains how a self-actualized person is. It says that in life, we ask for too many things that are unnecessary. But, truth is, we have to focus ourselves to our primary needs and work on how to achieve them. However, we should keep in mind that we cannot have all the things that we want, for life is not perfect. Life is not a bed of roses, and that it requires us to give up things that somehow matter to us and that we have to make certain sacrifices to attain the things that ought to be more important.
Burning of Uncertainties
Alfred Adler’s Inferiority Complex
Since this is the last activity for this program, this would be the best time to put an end to their regrets, fears and insecurities and turn them into inspirations for them to pursue the better persons in them. Like what Alfred Adler believed, we can turn our weaknesses to strengths and reach our full and best potentials.
: Conclusions :
REFLECTIONS.
GATPANDAN, EVITA
In doing this project, I experienced a lot of hardships during the process. Jah and I really wanted to finish this as soon as possible but our schedule was the main problem. Happily, we were able to cope up this difficulty. Our eagerness and perseverance for the will of doing this made us strive even more for this project. At first, I admit that I thought that it would be difficult with the justification of the program that we made but when we are actually doing it, all our ideas came out continuously. And, that was beautiful. J Our intensive research and readings about adolescent fathers and the theories helped me, as well as Jah, my groupmate, in doing this project. Also, I became more aware of how our personality really matters which made me understand other’s attitude even more. To sum it all up, I can say that personality is indeed a complicated thing to handle for it needs a lot of effort for you to fully understand it.
DAVID, JANINE LYN
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