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I'm conceived
I was conceived on July 4, 1991. -
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My Life
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I'm Born!
I was born on April 18, 1992 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. My mom ended up having a cesarean section after 20 hours of labor because I was breech. The doctors attempted to turn me twice, but I flipped back both times. I was stubborn! I weighed 7 lbs, 11 oz. and was 21 inches long. -
First 2 Years: Biosocial Development
According to my mom, I learned to smile almost immediately, around 1 month. And I never stopped! -
First 2 Years: Biosocial Development
I slept all the time as an infant. I slept almost all day, everyday. It’s an ongoing joke in my family that my baby videos are incredibly boring because of this. This could be because I was full-term, and my parents always kept it dark and quiet in our house. My mom also practiced co-sleeping with me some of the time. I wasn’t breastfed because my mom felt uncomfortable doing it around my paternal grandmother (who we lived with). -
First 2 Years: Biosocial Development
I learned to crawl at 6 months. I loved to flip over onto my stomach and crawl away as my diaper was being changed. -
First 2 Years: Cognitive Development
I said my first word around my first birthday, It was "Hi!". I was such a friendly baby that I liked to say it to everyone I came into contact with. -
First 2 Years: Cognitive Development
By 2 years old I was conveying my thoughts through talking. I loved to talk about food and Barney. I said "breakfast" as "brefkist". It's still my favorite meal! -
First 2 Years: Psychosocial Development
I was a very happy toddler. I can safely say after watching hours of my baby videos I can’t remember one instance where I got frustrated, sad or angry. I was always smiling and playing. This may be because my parents were very attentive and always positive towards and around me. I was their first child. My temperament was easy and laid-back. I was just as silly then as I am now! -
First 2 Years: Psychosocial Development
I was never afraid of strangers. My family was at the beach one day and I walked a block down, sat on another family’s blanket and waved to my parents across the beach. I was remarkably outgoing and friendly. -
Play Years: Cognitive Development
I started pre-school when I was 3 years old. I remember it being a fun experience where we colored and crafted a lot. These are some of my first memories. -
Play Years: Cognitive Development
I used private speech a lot in the shower, which my parents thought was really weird but didn’t address. As it turns out, this wasn’t such a bad thing. -
Play Years: Cognitive Development
I had a small pillow that I was attached to as a young child, which I named “tiny”. I believed it to be a boy for some unknown reason, and I remember thinking that I made him sad when I left him behind. I now recognize this as a form of animism. -
Play Years: Biosocial Development
I started dance lessons when I was 3 years old. -
Play Years: Biosocial Development
My dad taught me to swim when I was 5. I loved swimming and was not afraid at all. -
Play Years: Psychosocial Development
I started kindergarten when I was 5. I absolutely loved it. I will never forget my best friends Kelsey and Sam crying and hanging onto their moms while I excitedly walked to school with mine. I was not afraid at all, I was happy to start going to school. My parents were happy for me, and encouraged my excitement and motivation. -
Play Years: Biosocial Development
My dad taught me how to ride my bicycle without training wheels when I was 6. I was very afraid and I cried the entire time! -
Play Years: Psychosocial Development
I had two best friends who lived in the same apartment complex that I did (we moved to Michigan when I was 4) and we played together almost everyday. We engaged in mostly sociodramatic play, often playing barbies or a game we called “house”. In “house” we would pretend we were the moms of our families and we had invisible husbands and often used our dolls as our children. We also held tea parties, and pretended we were babies sometimes. -
The School Years: Biosocial Development
I started walking to school with my two best friends, without our parents around age 7. We lived in a good area and only about 2 blocks from my elementary school. It was a good experience. -
The School Years: Psychosocial Development
My mom became pregnant with my brother (my only sibling) when I was 8. It was unexpected and I was at first very upset. These feelings of resentment were soon replaced by pride and excitement as the pregnancy progressed. He was born 2 weeks before I turned 9. -
The School Years: Cognitive Development
Through my middle childhood I was praised highly by many of my teachers for having exceptional writing and vocabulary skills. Even though my family was relatively poor, I rarely suffered because of this. I was often a teacher’s pet. I was regarded as intelligent and motivated at teacher-parent conferences, raising my self esteem! -
The School Years: Cognitive Development
I endured a lot of religious education because my family was Catholic. I attended Catholic school for one year until my mom got pregnant with my brother and my parents decided tuition would be too much with two children. -
The School Years: Biosocial Development
I was healthy and ate nutritious foods, but I was very skinny. Junk food was not frequent in my diet and I remember it being a huge treat when my family went to get fast food. I wasn’t allowed to open my kids’ meal toy until I finished my chicken nuggets. -
The School Years: Biosocial Development
Something I remember being significant in this time of my life was playing outside. In addition to our sociodramatic play, we engaged in hours of outdoor activities after school each day. -
The School Years: Psychosocial Development
I had a healthy self-concept during my middle childhood. I was popular with my peers, praised by my teachers and unconditionally loved by my parents -
Adolescence: Biosocial
I had my first period when I was 12. I had a school dance that night and I was mortified. -
Adolescence: Psychosocial
My parents divorced when I was 13. This was a difficult time for me. Although, I found comfort in the fact that I knew both of them would always be there for my brother and I. -
Adolescence: Cognitive
When we moved in with my step dad I was forced to change schools twice. I began attending the local public school my freshmen year, and then switched to a private one for my sophomore year. For my junior and senior years I returned back to the public school. Since I had to remake friends and get to know different environments so frequently, I never got the chance to join any school clubs or activities, which affected my education negatively. -
Adolescence: Cognitive
I thought I was invincible when I began high school, I would sneak out at night to go to parties that I wasn’t supposed to be going to. Now that I look back, I was in an entirely different state of mind than I am now. -
Adolescence: Psychosocial
I was forced to select new friends as I entered High School since we moved to a different area. The friends that I started to hang out with weren’t the best influences, but I believe it affected me in a positive way. High School was a time of finding my own, true identity amongst them. -
Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive
I started college straight out of High School at 18 and I love it. I’m learning a lot and I’m developing so many new skills. -
Emerging Adulthood: Biosocial
I drink and party far less than I did in High School. I began exercising and taking care of my body the way that I should. -
Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial
My parents provide me with financial and emotional support as I go through my first years of college -
Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial
My self-esteem is higher than it has ever been because I’m figuring out who I am as a person. My religious and political views, what I want for my future and what I expect out of relationships are now things I am beginning to know -
Adulthood: Cognitive
If I stay on-track and get accepted into the Occupational Therapy program I will be graduating at 25 -
Adulthood: Psychosocial
I will start my career around 25 years old after graduating college -
Adulthood: Biosocial
Once I graduate college and start a family I would like to maintain a very healthy exercise routine and diet, it’s very important to me -
Adulthood: Biosocial
Alcohol abuse runs in my family, so I need to be extra cautious to use moderation and have other coping methods for my stress -
Adulthood: Psychosocial
I hope to get married after graduating college, and move in together -
Adulthood: Psychosocial
I hope to begin having children around 25-30 years old -
Late Adulthood: Biosocial
As I age my senses will begin to become less sharp and I may need a hearing aid and magnifying lens. -
Late Adulthood: Biosocial
Osteoporosis is very common in women due to the decrease in estrogen in late adulthood. I'm not a big milk drinker and I doubt I get enough calcium to begin with, so my body probably is taking this stored calcium from my bones causing them to weaken. The effects of this may cause fragile bones, falls and breaks. -
Late Adulthood: Cognitive
Dementia like Alzheimer's is partly genetic but it doesn't run in my family at all, so hopefully I won't ever have to experience this condition. -
Late Adulthood: Psychosocial
I hope to be retiring around age 60 or 65. I want to also keep busy with volunteering and grandchildren! -
Late Adulthood: Psychosocial
I hope to be an involved grandparent. -
Death and Dying: Cognitive
I hope to be aware of the love and appreciation that my family has for me during this hard time. -
Death and Dying: Psychosocial
I don't want my family to feel any grief when I die, I hope that they are upset when I pass away but that they can accept it and find peace in my memory. -
Death and Dying: Biosocial
According to the Life Expectancy Calculator I will live until age 92. -
Death and Dying: Biosocial
I would prefer to die a peaceful, painless death from old age.
