Life Span Timeline

By aralls
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    Prenatal-Birth

  • Biosocial Prenatal

    My mom took prenatal vitamins, did not drink pop and limited caffine.
  • Cognitive Prenatal

    My mom put headphones on her stomach and played classical music for me.
  • Psychosocial prenatal

    Her stress level was low because she took lamaze classes.
  • Biosocial Birth

    I weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces and was 21 inces long.
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    The First Two Years

  • Psychosocial First 2 years

    My cousin Tessa was born and throughout my life I played with her and my other two cousins who were all born in 1991. I also had a sister Kelsey who I played with.
  • Cognitive Language First 2 Years

    I had been babbling and said my first "word" ma-ma.
  • Biosocial First 2 years

    I took my first steps and began to walk, I never crawled I went straight to walking because my head was hard for me to support if I crawled.
  • Psychosocial First 2 Years

    I occasionally went to my Aunt Debbies house to be babysat and I separated pretty well from my parents.
  • Cognitive Language First 2 Years

    I started to use two words at once, such as "carry baby".
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    The Play Years

  • Psychosocial Play Years

    By this age I started to realize boys and girls. My boy cousins played with cars and the girl cousins played more girl toys such as barbies. At this age I started having more and more play dates with my cousins.
  • Biosocial Play Years

    I began to expand my diet in a "healthy way" at that time I remember eating my vegetables such as carrots, celery in a fun way with peanut butter or ranch dip.
  • Cognitive Play Years

    At this point in my language all I would ask is Why? Also decision making was important a lot of "no" even if I wanted to do something if I had a choice I wanted to be in charge.
  • Biosocial Play Years

    I was in preschool where I really started to get fine motor skills such as cutting with scissors or finger painting.
  • Psychosocial Play Years

    My parents had a parenting style by my play years. The parenting style my parents had was authoritative parenting. My parents always had rules and what they said went, but I was always explained everything.
  • Cognitive Play Years

    I began Kindergarten at Randolph Elementary, previously I did attend Preschool at Jackson Center. In Kindergarten I began to write letters and was able to write my name.
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    The School Years

  • Biosocial School Years

    At this age I started doing more and more physical activites. I joined a t-ball team and a soccer team. Also I began to ride a bicycle down my street and got lots of exercise.
  • Cognitive School Years

    In elementary school I remember really started to do multiplication tables. This challenged math and your memory skills.
  • Biosocial School Years

    In my elementary school we did Jump Rope For Heart encouraging children to exercise to keep their heart healthy.
  • Psyschosocial School Years

    At this age I remember wanting to be like my sister and her friends, and really trying to imitate her.
  • Cognitive School Years

    In the end of elementary school we were introduced to instruments and foreign language. This I remember was the first real challenge for me in school.
  • Psychosocial School Years

    Near the end of elementary school I really remember when bullying really started. I remember sticking up for a girl because she was always left out of the playground activites.
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    Adolescence

  • Adolescence Biosocial

    I started to even out a little, I hit a growth spurt at this age. I began to even out and started to grow out of the "baby" look a little.
  • Adolescence Cognitive development

    At this age I believed everyone noticed what I was wearing, I was concerned about wearing the same things within 2 weeks of each other.
  • Adolescence Psychosocial Development

    In the beginning of high school I felt like I wanted to be part of a group so I joined my youth group at church.
  • Adolescence Cognitive

    At the beginning of high school I had the invincibility fable. I thought nothing bad could really happen to me, I wanted to loose weight so I started not eating. Luckly I only did this for a very short period of time and did not become serious.
  • Adolescence Psychosocial

    At this time I decided what kind of people I wanted to be friends with, I chose a type of "group" and hung out with similar people that were involved in things I wanted to be with.
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    Emerging Adulthood

  • Emerging Adulthood Biosocial

    I realized at this age I had stopped growing so it was time to start to really work out to maintain my weight, so I began running and did a 5k.
  • Emerging Adulthood Cognitive

    I started my second year at Schoolcraft college to learn more about my future career.
  • Emerging Adulthood Cognitive

    Started Eastern Michigan University where I will be in the school of education and will be taking classes to teach me about different perspectives.
  • Emerging Adulthood Psychosocial Development

    Deciding to be a special education teacher gives me a vocation identity and a sense of purpose.
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    Adulthood

  • Adulthood Psychosocial

    At this point I probably will start a family of my own, being close with my immediate family. Starting my new family will lead to me to having my own home.
  • Adulthood Cognitive Development

    At this point in my life I will have been in my profession for a while and will be able to have more knowledge on it. I will have different perspectives and be ready to answer more questions.
  • Adulthood Biosocial Development

    At this age my vision probably will get worse, this is the age my parents started to wear glasses for reading, and I could at this age too.
  • Adulthood Biosocial Development

    By this age I should be aging a lot, I will probably have wrinkles in my face.
  • Adulthood Psychosocial

    At this age I may possibly be caregiving for my parents.
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    Late Adulthood

  • Late Adulthood Psychosocial

    I plan to retire but still stay actively involved by volunteering occasionally at the school I would have worked at.
  • Late Adulthood Biosocial

    I predict I may have osteoporosis when I am older, because it is common in my family and I do not drink enough calcium.
  • Late Adulthood Cognitive Development

    I may begin to start not remembering everything like I used to and a little bit more forgetful.
  • Late Adulthood Cognitive Development

    I predict I may begin art classes again. I may try ceramics or painting to keep everything flowing.
  • Late Adulthood Bioscoial

    I predict I will not be driving in the evening or as much because my vision and reflexes are not what they used to be.
  • Epilogue Death and Dying

    This is the age I predict I would die. On my quiz I took it said 93, I do predict a few years earlier. I plan if possible to donate my organs. I hope to go peacefully.