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Nine months before my birth, my genotype was established.
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Despite desperate attempts by mother to end the pregnancy, I developed into a fetus.
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After finally accepting that she would have a baby, my mother agreed to marry my father.
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my mother went to all prenatal visits, followed advice of her obstetrician, avoided tetrogens, and generally took good care of herself during the last 6 months of my prenatal development. I was born with only one flaw, A Patent Ductus Arteriosis in my heart. This resolved quickly.
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I was a chubby baby. Because it was frowned upon, at that time, I was not breastfed. My mother says that I always wanted to eat. She fed me on a schedulne, not on demand. When solid foods were introduced, I cried between spoonfuls, and she could not feed me fast enough. I had normal vision and hearing. I didn't really crawl much. My mom states I would roll to where ever I wanted to go. At about one year I started to walk.
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Sensorimotor and Language. My first words were "Da Da". My moms states that once I started talking, I talked all the time. We didn't have much money, so my mom didn't have much to do except read to me. She read to me all the time, and I loved it.
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The development of social bonds. My mother did not work, and was my main caregiver, therefore I had a secure attachment to my mother. My father worked a lot, but still spent time playing with me encouraging social confidence. I also had many grandparents and great-grandparents to whom I developed bonds and social confidence with.
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My parents are divorced, due to increased drinking by my father. My father moves to Texas. My mother starts college which requires me to spend lots of time with my childcare family, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
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My baby fat has finally disappeared, and I am of normal BMI.
I was a healthy eater, and I was not picky about what I ate. Interesting note here is that i I was supposed to be left-handed, but my grandmother had a hard time as a left handed child, so she convinced my mother to force me to be right handed.
liked to ride my tricycle. My parents were divorced, so I spent lots of time w -
Language. I started Preschool. I already knew how to read some words when I started preschool, and was reading pretty well by the time I entered kindergarten.
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Piaget: Preoperational Thinking or magical and self-centered thinking.
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Iniative vs. Guilt: My Mother graduates and becomes a nurse. She works afternoon shift. More time spent with Authoritarian childcare family. I start to feel sad a lot about being away from my mother so much, and never seeing my father. I think I wondered if it was my fault.
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Remember spending lots of time on the monkey bars at recess
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My childcare family divorces and my childcare mom remarries. There are now 6 children in the family which is fun, but she becomes even more authoritarian. My mother continues to have poor relationships with abusive men. I spend a lot more time with my grandparents.
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Physically healthy, no formal team athletics, but spend plenty of time playing outside with friends.
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Concrete Operational Thought. Working and long term memory established. I had the lead role, with lots of lines, in my 5th grade play!
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Biosocial: Beginning of puberty.
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Have finished puberty. Attending 9th grade dance with friends
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I am in10th grade. Formal Operational thought. Better thinking. I am taking advanced classes in high school and getting good grades.
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Graduated 7th in my class from High School.
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Beginning college. Strong body, sexuality.
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Sorority Party, hanging out with the sisters.
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Sexuality leads to birth of our daughter, Amanda
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Young parenthood is hard. Mark and I broke off our relationship not long after this photo was taken in our apartment in which we were cohabitating.
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25 years old. Graduation from nursing school. I am finally an adult.
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Mark and I finally settle our differences and we are married.
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Alec is born.
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Adam is born.
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Marriage and Caregiving: Happy family life.
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I developed Graves Disease, which eventually caused me to have my thyroid rendered inactive via radiation.
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Family Vacation.
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Alec with Grandpa Meddaugh, my last living grandparent.
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College again! I have started taking courses to finish my BSN.
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Amanda has received her Masters degree and is teaching in Chile. Alec is a sophomore and Adam is in his last semester of middle school. Mark and I are spending more time with friends
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I expect to remain physically active. We plan to move to a warmer climate where we can spend a lot of time outside.
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I plan to retire about this time, but will continue to work casually in some sort of outpatient setting, like Lactation Consulting. Hopefully, I will have finished my BSN, so that I can also teach clinicals.
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Hopefully, I will be spending more time with my husband, as we will retire. Maybe we will also have some grandchildren to play with. Would be nice to be in some sort of retirement area, so that we can spend time with friends too.
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Death at 97 years of age, per prediction of the life expectancy calendar.
