Exhibit: Drivers License

Benchmark: Personal Management

Skills:

P102- Demonstrate safety and self-control requiring minimum direction and supervision

     Passing my roads test was the best feeling. I felt the nerves of remember how to parallel park and the excitement of being able to drive on my own. I’ve always hated asking people for rides home or calling my parents and asking them to pick me up. It was always a struggle since I live seventeen minutes away from the school; so if I got out of practice an hour earlier, I had to wait almost twenty minutes till my parents came and picked me up.

      Having a driver’s license comes with a ton of responsibility. You have to be safe, have self control, and maintain your direction and supervision. One look at your cell phone to read a text, or even grabbing something on the floor of your car is dangerous to everyone in the car plus the people around you.

      In my personal life, I demonstrate safety and self-control requiring minimum direction and supervision by babysitting my special needs little sister. My sister is ten years old but has a brain of a three year old. She can’t talk or bathe, feed, and go to that bathroom by herself so I help her with that. I also have to pay extra close attention to her because her syndrome makes her have seizures, so if she does have one I need to prepare to take action.

     When I am a therapist, I need to pay attention to all of my clients so they feel like they are getting the best care possible. I also need to pay a lot of attention to them so I can get the right diagnosis for them. Demonstrate safety and self-control requiring minimum direction and supervision is a great skill to have so you are successful when you are babysitting and when you have your driver’s license.  This skill will help you not harm you or the people around you.