Teeter Totter

I all of a sudden found myself thinking sociologically when one day my sister and I were biking around the neighborhood. We live right by Gary Elementary School and the Preschool. So we always bike there and just play a little on the playground, mainly just the swings. But this particular day we felt like a two year old and went to the Preschool playground. We tried everything in the playground, or so we thought. I saw the teeter totter and was so excited! I haven't been on a teeter totter since grade school! I instantly when on the teeter totter and my sister and I played for a long time. Problem was that I didn't realize how afraid I was of heights until I got on it. So as soon as my sister went down and I went up, I screamed like a baby. People on the other playgrounds were staring at us and making rude faces at us. It was as if they thought that people of our age shouldn't be on the teeter totter or the Preschool playground.

This reminds me of the differential theory because even though my sister and I weren't breaking the law, we liked the fact that we were breaking a folkway. And others knew that we were breaking a folkway also. The usual thinking of a Preschool playground or a playground in general is that only little kids are to play there. My sister and I broke that stereotype by playing on the teeter totter. My sister and I were breaking a folkway and following the differential theory.