Melissa Crowley"s Timeline Journal

  • Birth

    The day I was born. I was born at 1:28 am.
  • Prenatal Development

    The first two weeks are called the germinal period, the third through the eighth week is the embryonic period, and from the eighth week to birth is the fetal period
  • The first two years

    Biosocial: First steps learning how to walk. cognitive: First words, learned how to talk. Psychosocial: Development of solcial bonds with my family.
  • Early Childhood

    Age 2-6. Biosocial: My body is growing and changing, my brain is also growing. Cognitive: Started school. Psychosocial: Making new friends and playing.
  • Grandfather passed away

    My Grandfather Bill passed away. I was ten years old and never had the chance to say I loved him or good bye to him.
  • Middle childhood

    Biosocial: I started playing softball on a team with friends. My language abilities are improving. Psychosocial: Start developing moral values from my family and peer group. Cognitive: continuing learning in school.
  • Adolescence

    Biosocial: puberty started at age 12. My first boyfriend at age 13, Cognitive: Spending a lot of time on homework.
    Psychosocial: My identity and personality begins to form, I am very influenced by my friends.
  • Emerging adulthood

    Biosocial: I now have had a serrious boyfriend for 5 years.. Cognitive: Graduate high school and begin cosmetology school. Psychosocial: Change in friends and more intamacy in my relationship with my boyfriend.
  • Adulthood

    Ages 25-65. Biosocial: Starting to see a few wrinckles. I get married. Psychosocial: More neices and nephews. Cognitive: Enter in the work field. My grandmother and mother pass away.
  • Grandmother passed away

    My Grandmother Betty passed away. This was a really difficult time for me because I lived with her for many of my childhood years and her and I were very close.
  • My Mother passed away

    My Mother, who fought breast cancer for ten years passed away. When she did pass I was by her side, just like I had been through all of her fight with this horrible disease.
  • Late adulthood

    Biosocial: My memories begin to fade, I have trouble remembering names. I need new glasses. I take on the hobby of drawing. Psychosocial: Holidays are my favorite and love spending time with family and friends.
  • Epilogue

    Hope appears, religion is important, start making choices in dying, affirmation of life, greif.
    I die in my sleep at the age of 86. In the middle of the night, my heart stoped. I did not feel pain, I just did not wake up.