9 - The Children's Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories

Summary

In this and the next chapter, I go into the conduct of everyday life and life trajectory of each person in turn. The aim is to illuminate how their modes of participation and troubles are parts of their conduct of everyday life and life trajectory. My analysis elaborates their practical reasons for living as they do and for their current concerns. It shows how their individual subjectivities arise from their conduct of everyday life at the current points in their life trajectories. I go into those aspects of the conduct of everyday life and the life trajectory that appear in my materials, referring to what was described earlier and adding aspects not yet introduced. My analysis is limited because the focus of my materials is on the sessions and the clients' lives at home and on their lives in other places as seen from there.

Angie

Conducting a Life in Dependency

When my study begins, Angie is twelve years old. After school, she spends her afternoons at home alone with her mother, reading cartoons, doing home assignments, being bored, and becoming easily cross. Most children her age do things together in other places, and she would like to participate in this. But her anxieties hold her back at home, and a history of being bullied and a change of school to get over it less than two years ago have so far left her with no close bonds to other children in school.