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Birth
I was born. -
Infancy: Motor Development
I began to crawl around this time. I probably also was learning how to walk. -
Infancy: Emotional Development
I remember being very upset each time my parents left me in preschool or left me with a babysitter. However, I would not be consoled by their return because I was still bitter that they left me in the first place. It would take a while for me to stop being upset at them. I could probably be classified as an insecure resistant child. -
Moved to the United States
My family moved to the United States when I was around 3 years old. This affected how I grew up and how other people perceived me. I did not completely understand some customs that my peers engaged in. My parents were also not fluent in English, so I grew up as an interpreter when I quickly learned and honed English. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
I remember doing a lot of homework in kindergarten that required matching words to pictures. I also remember starting to read a lot in kindergarten. This helped develop my preoperational stage because I began to understand how words and images represented real life concepts. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
English was not my first language, so my mom made me read a lot even before I entered kindergarten. She also made me watch grammar videos on repeat when I was younger. By the time I was enrolled in ESL classes in elementary school, I already surpassed my peers’ reading and language comprehension level, it seemed like a joke for me to be taking time aside to do ESL. -
Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
I remember participating in PACE classes where they occasionally took me out of class and tested me on logic and reasoning questions in elementary school. This probably fostered my concrete operational stage. -
Early Childhood: Emotional Development
Everyone outside of my parents and sisters probably thought I was a mellow and easy-going child. I followed the rules and was friendly towards my peers. At home, I was very jealous of my younger sisters, so my family probably thought I was easily aggressive. -
Early Childhood: Physical Development
At this stage in my life, I overcame the critical periods of learning to walk and use my legs. I was probably really excited about my physical abilities and that is why I liked to run around. The main motor skills I used were gross motor skills, primarily my legs (for running). -
Early Childhood: Physical Development
I was a very active child because I liked running around and playing tag or hide and seek. I also remember feeling competitive about attaining the Presidential Physical Fitness Award during my elementary school days. -
Middle Childhood: Physical Developement
I began to have less free time to play at this age due to my increased time in school and doing school work. I also did not play as much when I did have free time because I was introduced to video games. -
Middle Childhood: Physical Development
Since I was spending less time running around and more time writing in school (and also playing video games outside of school), I was more focused on advancing my fine motor skills. This includes using my hands and fingers in a more precise and skillful way. -
Adolescence: Emotional Development
My most important relationship in adolescence probably would be with my cousins. I had an intense fondness and commitment for them because they were my biggest confidants. This relationship would probably be classified as compassionate love because our relationship was intimate like friendship, but we were also committed to each other since we have known each other since we were children. -
Late Adolesence: Cognitive Development
In late middle school and early high school, I began taking classes that required me to think in more abstract, idealistic, and logical ways. English classes and classes I had to write papers for especially forced me to learn how to organize my thoughts in a more effective and more organized manner. This was probably the beginning of my entering the formal operational stage. -
Adolescence: Physical Development
I don’t think I entered puberty early or late. I remembered experiencing the same changes my other female friends did at around the same time they did. -
Adolescence: Cognitive Development
I started taking standardized tests at the end of each quarter during elementary school. I was not aware of how well I fared academically compared to my peers until I started taking these exams. My friends and my teachers were impressed with how my scores were 95 or higher, and they all told me I was “smart.” I was not really concerned with intelligence or tests before they boosted my ego. -
Started Boarding School
I started going to a boarding school around August 2013. This changed me a lot. I developed a lot of close friendships in a short time due to the amount of time I spent with these people. I also began to not be as close to my family because we did not live together until the winter and summer breaks. -
Adolescence: Emotional Development
Sternberg would have described my most important relationship in adolescence as being friendship or liking love. I went to a boarding school during my sophomore through senior years of college. I began to form close friendships with the people at my boarding school. It was like we were a family because we spent a lot of time together. I felt very attached to them. -
Adolescence: Physical Development
I did not exercise except for in PE classes at the beginning of my adolescence. I spent too much time in school or commuting in school. However, I did cross country from my sophomore to senior year of high school. This is when I started being really engaged in exercise because it was a form of stress relief for me. -
Graduated High School
I graduated high school and began going to college in the Fall of 2016. -
Early Adulthood: Emotional Development
My closest relationship would probably be with my best friend in high school. We have a secure attachment because we both have secure attachment styles. We both find it relatively easy to be emotionally close to others without being hesitant. -
Early Adulthood: Physical Development
Since I am engaging in exercise again during this time period, I am using my gross motor skills in my legs for running and also gross motor skills in my arms and other body parts for my strength training exercises. -
Early Adulthood: Physical Development
I try to take advantage of the recreation center in college, but sometimes I am overwhelmed by schoolwork. For the most part, I go to the recreation center in the mornings before class starts to run or do some strength training. It is something I look forward to every morning because it is a form of stress relief and also wakes me up. -
Early Adulthood: Emotional Development
Sternberg would have described my most important relationship right now as being friendship or liking love. I have intimacy with various people because I have a lot of friends, but I am not in any romantic relationships. I also do not feel a lot of commitment to my various friends since there are not that many friends whom I spend a lot of time with. I just occasionally spend time with different people.
