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Its a girl!
This is the day i was born! -
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Prenatal Development & Birth
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First Two years
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Biosocial
I was underweight, my mother chose formula to feed me but i could never hold it down. At six months i was given regular milk to drink, they thought i was allergic to formula. -
Biosocial cont.
I learned to walk at 10 months. I developed at a faster rate because i wanted to keep up with my older sister and her friends. My family tried to talk to me like adults, and tried to have less "baby talk". -
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Early Childhood, ages 2-6
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Cognitive
I had normal development for my age, maybe a bit faster then normal. I have average speech development. -
Psychosocial
I had bad seperation anxiety from my mother. She "gaurded" me, didn't let a lot of people from outside our immediate family hold me. She showed proximal parenting and i had a secure attachment. I never went to daycare. -
Cognitive
I had a high self-esteem, always around family and friends. I had great speech, and was very outgoing. I was in a lot of social groups like girl scoots and sports. -
Biosocial
I was still underweight for my age. I had problems keeping food down. I was injury-prone, very fragile, weak bones. I pulled my arm out of socket often, and broke my knee when i was five. I had surgery because it didn't grow back right. -
Psychosocial
I had a lot of friends, and loved starting school. I fought with my sister often but nothing out of the normal. I was well mannered, liked to watch some T.V., but spent most of my tine playing outside with friends. -
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Middle Childhood age 6-11
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Biosocial
I started to get taller, but always remained underweight. I started having problems with my feet, always at the doctors, i had no arches in my feet so they always hurt. I fractured my ankle a few tinmes at ages 7 and 10. I had a lot of physical play, loved being involved in sports. -
Cognitive
I continued to enjoy being at school and learning. I always had a good relationship with my teachers. I loved to read, and had good speech skills. -
Psychosocial
I showed good emotional control. Had a stable family enviroment, could be considered "spoiled". I always kept good manners. I had a good group of friends. I did get bullied in elementary schools by a few boys, but i remember my mother getting involved and that stopped. -
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Adolescence
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Biosocial
I hit puberty when I was 13. I finally gained weight when I was in middle school, but I always stayed on the thinner side. -
Cognitive
: I started to hate school, and did not want to learn all throughout middle school and most of high school. As Elkind recognized I thought I was invincible. My grades were terrible in middle school because I didn’t care anymore. I was one of the many teenagers who struggled with finding who they are and they are “lost”. I was more of a bully in middle school but acted differently in high school. -
Psychosocial
My teenaged years were full of rebellion. Me and my mother fought constantly, but I never listened to her. I did look to her for comfort and she always was there. Even though I regret this, I was one of the many who became sexually active at a younger age. I went through a depressed stage, and dressed “Goth” for a period of time. I also started drinking and smoking marijuana around the age of 14. I hung out with a older crowd so I started partying with them and didn’t stop until I was 18. -
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Emerging adulthood
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Bioscoial
I had a lot of stress at these ages. I went through another stage of depression when my parents got divorced when I was 19. Me and my dad moved down south to Mississippi and my mother stayed here and got remarried. I had pretty good health habits. I ate whatever I wanted but I love to exercise. -
cognitive
I started college right after high school, but due to personal reasons I dropped out twice. I noticed that my life was headed down the wrong path so I decided to move down south with my dad. I wanted to “start over”, and I did. I went to college down there and embraced Christianity. -
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Adulthood
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Psychosocial
I am proud to say that I found my identity. I thought I was in love a couple times during these ages. I struggled with violent boyfriends and cohabited with them. As I learned a good lesson now I am happy to say when I moved back to Michigan I found my true love and am engaged. -
Biosocial
: I am only 21 now so I have not yet noticed the signs of aging, or at least I don’t know. I have notice that my memory is not that good anymore. I still exercise frequently and don’t tend to stop doing that. -
cognitive
There is a debate between if intelligence increases or decreases over time. I agree that vocabulary increases, and obviously life experiences make a person smarter, but technology advances so fast that it is almost impossible to keep up. -
Psychosocial
I think peoples personality stick with them forever, although as your get older you are more inclined to change you view of things therefore, changing the decisions you make. When you get older I believe relationships are stronger because you’ve been through life. -
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Late Adulthood
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biosocial
Aging becomes more accelerated. Physical and emotional changed are more prevalent. Chances for serious diseases are common, but more people are living to be past 100 now. -
cognitive
Long term memory seems to be good in late adulthood, many reminisce of the past. Dementia and Alzheimer disease is most common in the elderly. -
Psychosocial
The elderly are said to be more active. They are employed or like to volunteer, which is most likely something I would do.