6-12 Months Motor Skills and Language Development Begin
1st Birthday Walks Unassistaned
12-18 Months Self-Awareness Begins, Fine Motor Skills Begin to Develop and Commucation Levels Increase Via First Words & Nonverbal Communication
24-36 Months Maturation of Prefrontal Cortex Occurs
18-24 Months Language Skills Increase (Vocabulary of approximately 550 words) Begin putting 2-3 Words Together. Information Processing and Fine Motor Skills Further Develop. New Emotions Appear
2nd Birthday, Social Bonds and Attachment Deepen, Vocabulary & Language & Fine Motor Skills Increase, Brain is 75% Developed and Functioning
3rd Birthday Limbic System begins to play a greater role in personlaity and behavioral development
4th Birthday Increased Development ogf the Amygdala, Hippocampus and Hypothalamus influence social behaviors more consistantly further definign temperment, reactions to stress and social bonds
Preschool Begins - interaction and communication with peers begins, fine motor skills are more complete and language and communication develop rapidly, deeper emotions artistic expression begin to occur
5th Birthday fine motor skills and perceptual abilities advance
Kindergarten Begins - guided participation increases, language and social skills improve, basisc problem solving and coping abilities begin to develop
6th Birthday Complete Mastery of Alphabet and Basic Numerical Values, Personality and Social Ethics Begin to Emerge,Social Play, active Play and Sociodramatic play are developing
First Grad Begins - middle childhood begins
7th Birthday Daily habits and routines are being more finely developed, hand-eye coordination improves, brain maturation and connection occur, mastery of complex skills begins, namely learning to read
8th Birthday - physical activity and quality increase, neighborhood games become fundamental, selective attention occurs
9th Birthday - classification and transitive inference devlop
Moved from Taylor to Northville - self-entertainment and isolation coping skills are deveolped out of necssity, adjustment to blended family life begins
5th Grade Begins Started New School
10th Birthday - Reading, Mathematical and Cognitive Skills Advance, the self concept evolves, more attention is placed on self-consciousness and self critism, daily hassels become a developmental and social obstacle
Middle School Begins - study of music begins, fine motor skill mastery is underway
13th Birthday - teenage years / adolescence begins
Adopt charlie the cat for 13th birthday, achieve first lifelong goal, develop nurturing skills, learn the importance of responsibilities
14th Birthday - hormonal changes increase, bio rhythms change, final growth spurts occur, stress coping matures, morals and ethics begin to evolve
First day of High School- ituitive and analytical thought are rapidily developing
16th Birthday - experienced identitiy confusion
First Driver's License
First Job (waitress)
High School Graduation, college bound
Begin college, participate in social norms
End 1st semester of college
End first year of college
leave food industry, take job in child care
reduce school to 1 class
Take semester off, reflect on academic life and career direction
leave child care and back to food service
resume full time student staus, development better time management skills
leave fine dining, to make more $$ at pub
first serious relationship begins
rent my first place, subjective and object thought perspectives influence most decisions
apply to 4 year college after learning to defeat tendencies towards delayed discounting
begin U of M
leave restaurant industry, intellectual flexibility impacts this decision
Start Cleaning Business (self-employment)
graduate schoolcraft
break up with first significant partner as he moved out of state
First childhood pet, cahrlie the cat, dies
graduate from CMU
Begin work with Medskin Experts
Grandmother dies
Begin work at Interior Environments
Laid off from Interior Environments
unemployment begins
struggle to increase cleaning business revenue
yoga teacher training begins, faith deveolpment also occurs
become strict vegetarian
business is good, life seems stable, upgrade living arrangments
Med skin Experts goes out of business
yoga training ends
Meet my current significant partner, better understanding of the dimensions of love
vocational identity crisis- decide I want to serve and am unfulfilled with current job and decide to persue graduate school
beging nurse assistant training
begin prerequisites at schoolcraft
cohabitation move in with significant other, give up bachelorette pad
complete prerequisites and GRE
apply to graduate school
accepted to graduate school
Sell Cleaning Business
travel to India, explore another culture
Begin grad school
Marry Partner
graduate with Master's Degree in PA Studies, crystallized intelligence is peaking
Begin work as a PA, utilize crystallized, analytical, creative and practical intellegence to lead a successful career in medicine
maternity leave
Give birth to first child, further develop nurturing skills, experience motherhood
adopt or foster second child
hire child care, so I can volunteer part time, utilize my selcetive expert skills
both children are in school, return to work
diversify retirement funds and update will
develop plan to maintain exisiting socials bonds with family and friends including happiness in marrage, as well as remaining open to forming bonds with new friends
First child graduates high school
second child graduates high school, empty nest
25th wedding anniversary
Retire
volunteer work pertaining to my ecological niche
integrity versus despair arises regarding volunteer work and ways to spend my time
sell the home where my husband and I raised our famlily, life review occurs
move in one of my children, mild cognitive impairment occurs, activity theory applies to my life
death at home with hospice services surrounded by family