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Prenatal Development and Birth
I don't remember anything about my prenatal development. The only thing I know about my birth is the date which it occurred, October 31, 1990. My mom did have some complications with my birth, when I was being born my mom's cervix and birth canal were contracting and pushing me back into the uterus. This caused my umbilical cord to wrap around my neck, depleting my oxygen, so the doctors performed a cesarean section. Luckily I survived and really had no complications after birth. -
The First Two Years- Biosocial
I was born at around what the book describes as an average weight and height of 7.5 pounds and 20 inches. My mom has told me that how fast I grew and I could see it from pictures or from baby video's. I did alot of sleeping as a newborn and some of that was with co-sleeping. I was able to walk some around the age of 12 months, my parents have video and it's pretty cool to see yourself take your first steps. I was not breast feed by my mother. -
The First Two Years- Cognitive Development
I can kind of remember going through the language sequence. In my baby videos you can see me start to do babbling. I'm not sure what my first word was and neither do my parents, I wish they could remember just so I could know what my first word was, it was probably something like mama or dada. -
The First Two Years- Pyschosocial Development
I defiantly had separation anxiety, I would cry and yell if my mother left me. I'm not sure what type of attachment I would be classified as having, I probably say insecure-resistatant because I can remember times when my mother would leave when I was playing and I would stop playing and when she returned I would just stay right with her. -
The Play Years- Biosocial Development
My mom was real big into prevention of injury. I can remember every time getting into the car she would make sure I was in the car seat and all strapped in. Also whenever I was roller-skating, or riding a bike she would have me so protected I could barely move. -
The Play Years- Cognitive Development
When I was young I had a speech problem that caused me to not speak as much. I was able to learn words and grammar, but just not verbalize as many words. I went to a Montessori pre-school, I can remember doing exercises that where trying to keep me engaged and playing with other kids and I really don't even having a teacher. -
The Play Years- Psychosocial Development
In my play years I can remember being instrumental aggressive, trying to get a toy from a friend or trying to keep the toy away from them. I can also remember being reactive aggressive, never being bullying aggressive. -
The School Years- Biosocial Development
As I mentioned earlier I had a speech problem, a learning disability. When I first started school I was real shy because I had a hard time speaking, even though I was just as smart as everyone else in class. It was actually so bad, in 1st grade, that my teacher called me retarded. I eventually got my speech problem fixed, but I'm still really shy and try to avoid talking if possible. -
The School Years- Cognitive Development
I can remember using the phonics approach to learning language in school, trying to sound out words that were challenging. I can remember using hooked on phonics at home to try and learn more words. -
The School Years-Psychosocial Development.
I can remember in my school years friendship being really important to me. I defiantly wanted close friends more than being popular. I had three or four really close friends that I did everything with. All my close friends at the time had similar interest, values and backgrounds to me. -
Adolescence- Cognitive Development
I can remember being adolescent egocentric. I can remember thinking that I was something special and thought that everyone noticed me. I never had the invincibility fate, but I had some friends that definitely had it. -
Adolescence-Psychosocial Developemtn
My parents were definitely parental monitoring. They were always asking where I was at and where I was going, they wanted to know what I was doing and what I was going to be doing later, and who I was with and who were we going to meet. My parents did it in a supportive and warm relationship and I think that helped me become confident, avoid drug use and risky sex. I know some kids whose parents were too controlling and they use drugs. -
Adolescence- Biosocial Development
When I was a junior in high school, I had my first drink of alcohol. Me and my friends would drink a little and think we were the coolest people in the world. We never drank a lot and never did anything stupid. I stopped drinking that year and only have had a couple sips of alcohol since, but a couple of my friend’s were unable to stop and drink a lot now. -
Emerging Adulthood- Biosocial Development
I ran a lot before this time when I was playing sports, but right around this time I started working out more often and a lot harder. I meet the standard for exercising 30 minutes a day, five days a week and actually go well over that. I also eat alto healthier. -
Emerging Adulthood- Cognitive Development
I would say that I use morality of justice. I look at things in terms of right and wrong. I don’t use morality of care; I don’t give human needs and relationships the highest priority. -
Adulthood- Biosocial Development
I used to chew tobacco on a pretty regular basis, but I stopped because I was really afraid of getting mouth cancer. I also thought that I work so hard to keep my body in shape and eat healthy so why do I want to do something that will increase the chances of me getting sick. -
Adulthood- Psychosocial Development
My family defiantly has linked lives, when one family member is successful the whole family feels successful and when someone struggles the whole family feels the struggle. My uncle was recently diagnosed with cancer, and everyone in my family is feeling the struggle he is going through, but we also have familism because everyone in my family is sacrificing to help my uncle and no one has a problem doing it because he is family. -
Emerging Adulthood- Psychosocial Development
Friendship is really important for me. I have made close friends during these years and I feel like some of the friendships I had before are actually becoming stronger now than they were earlier in life. It is probably mostly because of frequent exposure, I’m seeing them more than I used to. -
Adulthood- Cognitive Development
I would say that my IQ has risen, but I’m not really old enough to say that it’s been raising through my early adult years. So I will talk about my dad who’s IQ raised well he was getting older in adulthood. He actually received his master’s degree when he was in his early thirties, after getting a job out of college. -
Late Adulthood- Biosocial Development
I admit I am ageist sometimes, like when I see a person driving really slowly, I automatically think that it's an elder person. I also use elder speak, I didn't even realize it until reading this chapter, I have a tendency to make my sentences very short and simple. I always thought I talked to elders like that because I'm really shy, but now I realize I make sentences even short and simpler when talking to the elders. -
Late Adulthood- Cognitive Development
This chapter talked about how the elderly are more likely to stick to preconceived ideas rather than consider new evidence and change their minds, like with political opinions. This is true for my grandparents who vote a certain way because of presidents that were serving when they were younger. Also some of their attitudes have not shifted since they were younger, like my sister was dating someone who was a different ethnicity and they didn’t really like her doing that. -
Late Adulthood- Psychosocial Development
My grandparents are aging in place, my grandparents in Michigan are the oldest people living in the subdivision and all of their friends have moved out or died. My grandpa in Massachusetts is also aging in place, he is the oldest person in his neighborhood and he doesn’t want to move to a retirement home or a nursing home because he doesn’t want to lose his independence. -
Death
The life expectancy quiz said I would live 92 years, but I'm living to be at least 100 years old. I'm not going out before then . I hope I die a "good death", I mean I don't think to many people want to die a "bad death" but dying with no pain would be best. I have not thought about if I would do any type of euthanasia and I don't plan on thinking about that for a while