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Birth
I was born August 7, 2000 at 2:52pm in Anniston, Alabama. -
Infancy: Health
My mother said I have always slept almost more than I am supposed to. As an infant I started sleeping through the night very early. -
Infancy: Language
My first word was mama. -
Infancy: Physical Development
I practiced walking because I began walking at around 9 months. Also, I did lots of small puzzles and played outside as an infant to encourage gross and fine motor skills -
Infancy: Cognitive Development
I have experienced infantile amnesia, because the memories of the first view years of my life are generally blank. However, my mother told me as I child I would read through books over and over again remembering the details and recounting them. So I used repetition. -
Infancy: Cognitive Development
My first memory involves playing with my toys in my play room at my Grandparents house. Every weekend until later adolescence I spent every weekend at this house. -
Early Childhood: Health
I slept around 10 hours total at night during these years. Typically I went to sleep around 8-9pm and woke around 6-7am for daycare or going to my Grandparent's house. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
I used storytelling and rhyming to remember lots of things. For subjects like math repetition was still prevalent. -
Early Childhood: Emotional Development
Coping with stress was difficult for me at this time because I didn't really have anyone to talk to about hard things. I dealt with it best by spending time alone and reading books and taking some relaxation time. -
Early Childhood: Physical Development
I was in daycare most of the time so I spent lots of time playing computer games, board games, puzzles, and going outside to the playground. We also occasionally took field trips to places like the skating rink. -
Birth of brother- Jackson
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Childhood: Language
Even when I was very young I loved reading so my mom would buy me all kinds of books to expand my vocabulary -
Middle/Late Childhood: Physical Development
I began gymnastics during this period and was in the gym many hours through the week. Also, with school I had PE, also lots of time writing and working out problems. -
Middle/Late Childhood: Cognitive Development
Visualization and repetition are the ones that I remember most in the period. Particularly with spelling words and multiplication facts. -
Middle/Late Childhood: Emotional Development
Playing piano and guitar, as well as singing, were my main emotional outlets during this period. Whenever I was feeling stressed I would work on my music or learn a new song. -
Middle/Late Childhood: Emotional Development
My mother has never really been one to talk about how she was feeling or have particularly emotional conversations with me or my brother. She was more emotion-dismissive. -
Adolescence: Emotional Development
Losing my grandmother on my Dad's side affected me greatly because it was the first true experience of losing someone close to me. I found it rather difficult to cope alone because since my parents are spilt up and I live with my mother there was no one experiencing the same type of grief I was. -
Adolescence: Cognitive Development
During this time period, my brother was getting old enough to understand so I would teach him my material after I had learned it to make sure I had everything straight and remembered it. -
Adolescence: Health
During this period I got around 9 hours of sleep, I would eat dinner when I got home from whatever sport I was playing or church and then prepare for bed around 9-10pm. I woke at about 6AM everyday for school, because I had quite a drive to get there. -
Adolescence: Physical Development
I played many more sports during this time such as basketball, cheerleading, softball, volleyball, and track. I also made youtube videos, so I spent a portion of my free time editing and typing on my laptop. -
Early Adulthood: Physical Development
In college, I discovered I had a harder time seeing things than I had ever before. Also, I went back to my old cheer gym and felt much more pain doing things I had been doing since early childhood than I had ever felt before. -
Graduated High School
I graduated from Alexandria High School. -
Early Adulthood: Health
Today I usually get around 8-9 hours of sleep. Most nights I'll go to bed around 11 or 12 and wake around 8:30. What time I go to bed varies and this stage drastically more than in any other stage because my day-to-day schedule is so different. -
Early Adulthood: Physical Development
I exercise in the gym rather often and I also participate in a majority of my sorority (KD) intramural sports. I get plenty of work on fine motor skills doing lots of homework and writing notes. -
Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Today, I use visualization by drawing pictures in my notes and using highlighting. I also study with friends so I use my same strategy of teaching material to make sure I know it.
