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Birth
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Infancy: Language Development
While unsure of my first word, my language stuck to small items that fascinated me. I often labeled things by their sound, until my vocabulary expanded. -
Infancy: Attachment
During Infancy, I was securely attached to my mother rather than my father. -
Infancy: Stress
As an infant, I coped with stress through sleep! -
Infancy: Temperament
From birth onward, I was quiet and tame. My high effortful control caused my parents to adapt to how different I was than their previous child, by using more mature and bland items to care for me. -
Infancy: Physical Development and Motor Skills
Throughout infancy, my parents ensured that I learned to walk efficiently by utilizing activity and play. This included toys that stimulated my personal growth, along with some leisurely strolls. -
Infancy: Sleep
For the first two months of life, I woke up in the night three times. It was as if I had a schedule, though once I passed two months, I began to sleep eleven hours through the night! -
Early Childhood: Attachment
Once I grew into the phase of more personal attachment, I clung to my father. This began when my mother became more active in the work force, and the love my father had for me became more apparent. -
Early Childhood: Emotions
My parents were rather laid back in their strategies with emotion. They took from either side, and dismissed behaviour that was wrong while coaching forward desirable behaviour. -
Early Childhood: Stress
My coping strategies changed as I grew into childhood, using activity and dance as a way to channel the raw emotions that many feel at this age. -
Early Childhood: Physical Development and Motor Skills
In Early Childhood, my love for the arts began to emerge, and because of this I was enrolled into dance. This specific thing was important to my physical development, encouraging my movements to become more advanced and refined. -
Early Childhood: Sleep
Even throughout this portion of my life, I still slept eleven hours a night! -
Birth of Brother
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Late Childhood: Attachment
Through Late Childhood, I was still closely attached to my father. This only increased as I developed and became more like him in personality and talents! -
Late Childhood: Stress
Stress grew higher with age, as usual, and so did my activity. Dance and sports became an outlet for my aggression even more so than before. -
Late Childhood: Physical Development and Motor Skills
I became much more active within the community, specifically focusing upon what was more team-based sports. This allowed my muscle mass to change and for my body to become stronger, as well as enhance my gross motor skills. -
Late Childhood: Sleep
Around the age of 9, I began to sleep less than before. My schedule turned into one that consisted of seven to eight hours of sleep, since school required an earlier waking time. -
Adolescence: Attachment
As I began to enter adolescence and grow into the teenage life, I grew apart from both of my parents in general. My attachment largely was to my father, still, but I felt more insecurely attached than as secure as I had been in my infancy and early childhood. -
Adolescence: Language Development
During this particular time in my life, there was slang that I would tend to use in order to seem "cool". The term swag was the only one of the few things that I could use, though many people created terms that made even less sense. -
Adolescence: Stress
Adolescence often brings a great deal of stress, and during this time I moved around quite a lot. To try and cope with the new experiences, I began to meditate and find relaxing situations and places that would provide solace. -
Adolescence: Sleep
During adolescence, my sleep cycle began to turn unhealthy. Trauma caused the number of hours that I slept to become nearly nonexistent, and the existent sleep is bothered and restless. -
Adolescence: Physical Development and Motor Skills
As I moved overseas, my lifestyle changed. I began to focus more on flexibility and the stretching movement that the body can do, participating in yoga and acrobatics. -
Graduated High School
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Early Adulthood: Sleep
Sleep is nearly the same as in adolescence, though meditation and therapy have helped with the restless sleep. -
Early Adulthood: Personality
The Big Five is widely known, and provides a large amount of information about personality. My personal results include strengths of Open-Mindedness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. -
Early Adulthood: Identity
My current identity status is found in the comfort of who I am, being different and whole. Though I would like to claim that I have reached achievement due to the experiences I have had in my life, I would likely be more inclined to claim identity moratorium. -
Early Adulthood: Attachment
With age, I have become more personally independent and have distanced myself from my family in order to establish an adult life. Though, with my attachment, I have found I still do cling to my father rather than my mother.