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My birth! I arrived to my mother, father, and brother at 10:36am. My mother is proud to report my APGAR as a 10!
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First Smile!
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My first word- Ma Ma!
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Gross motor develpoment: Loves music and to dance!
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First formal education setting: First day of kindergarden.
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Further developed gross motor skills: Mom enrolled me in my first dance class!
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Playmates: Declared my first best friend. We played at eachother's houses often that first year of school, dressing up and playing house.
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Neighborhood Games: I had a group of friends, beginning from kindergarden, that played at eachother's houses, walked to school together, and played at recess. We made up silly games with rules throughout elementary school.
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Began individual guitar lessons! I played an acoustic guitar while my brother played electric.
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Learned the ability to be resilient. Lost my grandfather and great grandmother within a week of eachother. My teacher inspired me to journal and write about my experiences to assist in the grieving process.
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Began puberty: Menarche
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First Boyfriend. We dated all of junior and senior years. Breaking up at the conclusion of high school.
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Junior Year of HS: Took ACT test to meet requirements for applying to colleges
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Focus on exercise: Realized the importance of staying active. Joined sorority soccer team during the fall. Throughout the emerging years of adulthood, joined softball team, running 5k, kettlebell classes and more.
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Graduated college: Completed coursework and internship during the summer. Officially walked across the stage December 2008! **Photo: Mom and I the day of my graduation at a family Christmas Party.
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First day as a full time employee at Children's Hospital of Michigan. First job utilizing college degree!
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Current Life and Projection: Using all three forms of intelligence (Sternberg). Analytic intelligence is being used to complete current classes, future classes, and for the GRE. Creative intelligence is present each and everyday at work, working with children, finding creative and innovative ideas to inspire the kids. Practical intelligence is also used for work to meet expectations of job requirements, manage children/families/coworkers/etc.
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Projection: Marriage/Happiness- I hope that sometime in the future I will meet and marry someone and progress through a happy marriage to parenthood and into late adulthood together.
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Projection: Menopause- somewhere between ages 42-58 (between years 2028-2044)
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Projection: Loss of sensory ability. I expect at age 65 and older I will have some loss of ability in vision, touch, smell, taste, and/or hearing as the majority of late adulthood does.
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Projection: Hoping to become a "social witness" as stated by Erikson as "aware of interdependence of the generations as well as of all of human experience".
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Projection: As a recreational therapist, I see the importance of recreation/leisure in late adulthood. I hope that I will retire from my profession and spend time participating in exercise and leisure activities as well as volunteering my extra time.
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Prejection: According to the Life Expectancy calculator used in Module 13, my life expectancy is 97 years old.
