“Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.” StuffGrowing UpGrowingGroupsListeningMotown Author:Eddie Murphy
“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.” IfsHomePainParentPracticeSupportGrowing UpGrowingGroupsCoupleResourcesAgingVersionsTraditionalWorriedDiscussionIsolationGrandmotherEggsSatisfyingSaltProliferationChronic PainOutreachAging ParentsSupport GroupsCrepesTraditional Family Author:Florence King
“Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.” ChildrenProblemIndividualSocialRolesSupportGrowing UpGrowingGroupsResourcesIndependenceVarietyEnterpriseCollectivesBelongingConformityInclusionParticipationSocial LifeExclusionOrganizationalBelonging To A Group Author:Zick Rubin
“I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.” YoungGrowsGrowing UpGroupsBedPoliceOur FamilyEncountersOfficersBrooklynPolice Officer Author:Tracy Morgan
“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.” DifferentCountryGrowsCitiesGrowing UpGroupsEconomicGrewTypeLuckyGrew UpNeighborhoodDiverseEthnic GroupsDifferent Types Of MusicEconomic Status Author:Mike Posner
“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.” ProblemHomeNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTroubleGroupsMonthsInstitutionsHospitalsLockedLocked UpPsychiatricPsychiatric Hospitals Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe
“There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.” ThinkingGirlOpportunityGrowsGrowing UpGroupsLike MeChicagoDiverseGeorgia Author:Elana Meyers
“The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.” ThinkingWholeSpeakFeltGrowing UpGrowingGroupsYouthInspiredPersonaSpeaks OutLennon Author:John Travolta
“Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.” SecretGrowing UpGrowingGroupsMy Family Author:Dennis Miller
“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.” LittlesTogetherCoursesFeltRealizingSituationGrowing UpGrowingGroupsSeriousSceneIdealsMy FamilyStartingDemonComing OutPunk Author:Rozz Williams