Three potential ideas

1) Every year my family has thanksgiving at my grandparents house.  One year when all the cousins were of age to start understanding rules we were given an important one that if broken punishment would be unbearable.  This rule was "Children should be seen and not heard."  This rule has shaped the way I act presently when at a dinner or any gathering.

Focus: On the rule "Children should be seen and not heard"

Significance: How this rule as made a social barrier now.

2)  I woke up just thinking it would be another regular morning in fourth grade.  I did the usual, walked to the bus stop and waited for the bus to arrive.  When I arrived to school the classroom next store to mine had kids with flowers and tears streaming from their eyes, I didn't understand.  When I went over to see what was wrong I as informed that my friend Anthony had died in a car accident yesterday.  I was frozen in that spot crying, my teach had to pull me away my class.  It wasn't fair.  The rest of the day my mind was in a blur with the rest of the students.  My teacher stopped all the lesson for that day and let us reminisce on Anthony.  That day our class felt more like a family and had grown a lot closer.  When I arrived home my mother was at the bus stop waiting, which a rare thing, I got off the bus and she hugged me so tight.  She told me that she loved me and she didn't know what she would do if I was ever to disappear on her.  After that moment our relationship began to grow closer and she was at the bus stop everyday after.

Focus:  The loss of a friend.

Significance: Out of the tragedy came closer bonds with family and friends.

3)  At the end of the school year in fourth grade 5 kids from every class where chosen to become a safety patrol.  Being chosen as a safety patrol was the equivalent as finding the holy grail.  I ended up being one of those 5 kids and was able to vote for the captain of patrols.  I told my close friends and numerous other kids that if they put my name down with theirs and another I would do the same.  Of course I couldn't keep up this bargain as of we could only choose three people to nominate.  The next day I found out that there was a tie for captain and they were holding another vote.  When we all came to the room to sit down to vote I noticed that my name was there along with a boy named Michael.  We once again voted and I had a gut feeling I wasn't going to win this time.  At the end of the day the boy Michael came over to me and told me that I had won and sure enough the next day I was announced as captain of the safety patrols.

Focus: The leadership role that I played.

Significance: By being the captain I gained confidence in my self.