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My head has begun to take shape, and I am about 3 millimeters long.
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My arms and legs begin to differentiate and emerge. Legs, feet, and webbed toes begin to have a skeletal structure.
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During week 9, gender differentiates. For me, female organs began to develop. I weighed approximately 3 ounces and was 3 inches in length.
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My digestive, excretory, fingernails, and buds for teeth form during months 4,5, and 6.
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During the final weeks of prenatal development and birth, my lungs began to expand and contract. Also, my heart valves and arteries fully mature. Lastly, my movements begin to correlate with my mother's- including hearing, kicking, and communication.
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I was born!
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Biosocial, Cognitive, and Psychosocial development
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My body size and sleeping are two important factors of biosocial development. As a newborn, I slept for atleast 15 hours a day. Judging how much I still sleep today, it was probably more than 15. As a newborn, I was in the 90th percentile in height and weight.
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My five senses are maturing. Babies spend the first year merely looking around. As a curious baby, I smiled at strangers and put anything within reach into my mouth. As for my perception, my mom called me "Baby," so I would not respond to my name Kristie for a long time.
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From six weeks to eight months, I had attachment in the making. By smiling, laughing, and babbling at faces I recognized, I was creating a bond for the rest of my life.
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Babbling began around 6 months of age.
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At birth, I was a smiling, happy baby. As I became older, I came to be more angry and fearful, as normal development dictates.
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Speech begins around age 1, and my first word was ball. This may explain why I love basketball so much.
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I was vaccinated and breast fed as a young child. My mother believed in these methods to keep me healthy and strong.
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I experienced the six stages of sensorimotor intelligence. Stage one is reflexes. Stage two is sucking a pacifier instead of a nipple. (I was really good at that stage until my parents finally had to cut me off around age 6!) Stage three is responding to people while stage four includes deliberate and purposeful responses. Lastly, stages five and six include becoming a little scientist with experimentation and trial-and-error.
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As a young child, I had a close relationship with both of my parents. I remember as a child, being especially close to my dad. In our textbook, it states that children with close relationships to their father are less likely to lash out at authority and friends.
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My parents used a mixture of proximal and distal parenting. I frequently wanted to be picked up, but I also wanted to feed myself and play with the toys they handed to me.
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I developed mentors and people I looked up to between the ages of 2-6. I really idolized my teachers because they were so smart and I wanted to learn everything they had to teach. I also realized that not everyone thought the same way that I did.
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My growing has slowed down exponentially from previous years. I began to enjoy unhealthy foods like candy, and especially fruit roll-ups. I did play outside everyday because video games and cell phones did not exist or were not popular yet.
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Brain development continues to improve. I was always clumsy, falling down often. My coordination of left and right began to develop.
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Growing up, we spoke two languages in my house. I do not remember speaking Polish, but it was integrated into my English learning at home.
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As discussed in the previous discussion board, my parents used an authoritative parenting style when raising me. They were warm, loving, and supportive, but also had high expectations when it came to behavior and school.
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I was never physically abused or neglected as a child. Although my parents did spank me, I believe it was part of normal parenting. I have no emotional scars from the way they raised me.
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I was very emotional as a child, as I still am today. Empathy and agression began to take form between the ages of 2-6.
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As an avid learner, I began to read at a young age. My mom stressed the importance of reading. That is all I did growing up. I would read books to my friend who was older than me, and teach her to read.
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From a young age, I always played with the boys. Whether it was hockey or gymnastics, I was also active. The girls wanted to play with dolls, and I wanted to ride bikes. I always knew I was a girl, but I wanted to wear hats and boys clothes. My mom allowed me to choose whatever I wanted to wear, because I would cry if she tried to put me in a dress. I was the biggest tomboy.
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I began to play organized sports between the ages of 6-11. My height slowly peaked for a few years, but I never had trouble with weight or asthma.
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When it came to intelligence tests and schoolwork, I was always top of my class between these years. I remember challenging myself in math and english, and I would always tutor other students.
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As a growing child, my memory was average. I know that my sister can still remember things from this time period, where I can not. As a growing child though, I was always open to learning from mentors and peers
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When I was in elementary and middle school, we had just begun spanish classes and I thoroughly enjoyed them!
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I never attended a voucher or charter school, but I did go to Catholic school from K-8th grade. I believe growing up that Americans were high on the international standards, and now other countries have taken over educational ranks.
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I had two loving parents and two siblings that cared about me. Our household income was high and we had an easy lifestyle growing up. My parents gave us the opportunity to try anything we wanted.
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To defend against stress as an adolescent, I found support in friends and family. I also became more of an individual and relied on myself when matters became too personal.
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I began puberty when I was in eighth grade. Increased hormones, reproductive ability, and sexual characteristics began to develop.
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With continuing brain development, adolescents tend to act impulsively. Although I was not as crazy as my friends were, I still did things out of impulse that seemed like a good idea at the time.
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I did not suffer an eating disorder during my adolescent years, or ever. I had adequate nutrition. Although my mom allowed me to eat whatever I wanted, she always made sure that my siblings, myself, and even my friends were properly fed.
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I began to be able to think hypothetically and deductively. Thinking with abstract thought meant I began to be able to think more critically and indepthly. I was able to understand more complex subjects that I could not understand in middle childhood.
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As a highschooler, I was bullied for a few months. I did well in school and on the high stakes tests mentioned in our textbooks.
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When developing my identity, I knew I was a straight young woman. My aspirations included getting into a good college and getting a basketball scholarship. Both of those dreams came true for me. I was instilled with hard work and that makes up the core of who I am today.
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I was definitely a teenager who fought tooth and nail against my mom! I remember going through a period where I could not stand to hear her voice. That must just be part of growing up. I became sexually active but never got into trouble with drugs, alcohol, or in school.
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I have not finished this stage of my life, as it progresses through age 25. I am working toward my vocation in life, and trying to decide what career path to finally follow. I have found my habits and traits, but I still do hope to change a few.
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My friendships mean everything to me as this point in my life. My best friends from my childhood and college are the people I depend on most. I still live with a few of them as well. I recently lived with a boyfriend but we broke up. Many people I graduated high school with had kids and got married already. That lifestyle is not for me quite yet.
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My parents still provide some financial and more emotional support for me. They help me make life-changing decisions and listen to the stories I have to tell them. I may need to move home to save money for graduate school, but I am not looking forward to that time!
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As a collegiate athlete, my health habits were better than most. With atleast 3 hours of exercise per day, I was in the best shape of my life. Although I did not eat the healthiest every day, I was burning off so many calories that I had to continuously eat.
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As a growing adult, one is supposed to be able to balance emotion and logical thought. I know that I have not yet mastered that skill.
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I started college in September of 2009. I graduated in May 2013 with a bachelor's in biology. Many members of my family went to college, and it never crossed my mind not to go to college.
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Adapting to a new life in college was difficult at first, and I emotionally drained myself. After coming into a routine, I love my life, new freedom, and independence.
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I have not reached this stage of my life yet, so I will discuss what happens to most adults.
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In the years throughout adulthood, people begin to undergo senescence. Senescence is the breakdown of the body. The brain begins to slow down, and skin becomes wrinkly. There is less strength in the muscles. I hope that I continue to work out often and maintain health. Along with this, sexual reproduction decreases and eventually stops in women during menopause.
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Divorce and seperation are common during this time for adults. On the other hand, some people share lovely times with their aging children and parents. Also, many adults spend time and money on raising their children. Employment differs for many adults, and can be lifelong jobs, shiftwork, or unemployment.
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Social intelligence increases with age, as does vocabulary. Intelligence can decrease in other areas as age increases. As an aging adult, people also become more intellectual, intuitive, strategic, and flexible when it comes to decision making. Experience plays a factor in these situations.
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Many activities can be added to this time of life to enhance the quality of living. All of the senses eventually decline and disease becomes much more common. As for aging, there seems to be a life span on cells, and that is why they die and we eventually do too. Today, more people than ever do live past 100 years.
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Some elderly people are still active today. Some are employed, do volunteer work, or participate in activities. My grandparents work in the yard, go to church, and go to garage sales. Many friends have died if one survives late into life, but relationships are loyal. Many elderly cannot care for themselves, and move into assisted living, nursing homes, or independent living. Activities of daily living become difficult.
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Long-term memory is in tact for most elderly people. Dementia occurs often and affects short term memory. I currently work in assisted living and I see both of these types of memory every day. There are a few residents who are quite religious, while there are plenty more who are not devout at all.
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At the end of life, people everywhere have the same hopes about death. These include death being at the end of a long life, peaceful, quick, with family, and without pain.
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There are five stages of death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
After one dies, grief, bereavement, and mourning all can occur. I have a had time coping with death, and my grieving still continues. I lost my grandma at 13 years of age, and my emotions still get the best of me whenever we celebrate her life at church. -
The date of my death will be the day after my 90th birthday. 90 years is a long time to live, and I will be very lucky to make it that long. With continued physical fitness, and a little luck to stray away from disease, my ninety years will be the best!