FIU Childhood Personal Experience and Lifespan Stages Development Discussion

Please write 300 words minimum, address the following:

• Looking back on your own life and your development throughout the lifespan up until the present time, which one of your developmental stages was the most important in helping you become who you are today?
• Why?

I will upload a paper about my stages, so you can use it as a guide.

Please reply the the following 3 posts ( 200 words each reply)

Post # 1 (V)

Looking back at my own life and my developmental stages of my lifespan, I find that the stage that was most important in helping me become who I am today was my middle childhood (6 to 12 years of age). I find myself to be an old soul and I was always ahead because of the experiences I had lived through at such a young age. I find that middle childhood, is the stage where I learned so many things from running a household to going to school and learning a new language. I could say adolescence taught me very important lessons that help me mold me but there were too many emotions that I can’t think of something I already didn’t know from my childhood. My middle childhood was impactful for me, at this stage I learned to cook, clean, do laundry how to care for my younger siblings. Everything about running a home and moral values and respect were taught to me in this stage and I am using these skills and values today. I learned to be helpful and do things with a grateful heart and to love others even if they don’t deserve it. Today I am a spiritual person, and it was during my middle childhood I understood that God was someone I needed in my life, hope and faith is what kept me from losing myself in difficult situations. I tried my very best at school and loved school. I didn’t have the easiest childhood, but work ethics was instilled in me and my siblings. Today we are all hard-working individuals with great work ethics, and we all got that from as early as our childhood. In our home we were not encourage academically or emotionally but I feel that most of the basic daily knowledge that I use today came from my middle childhood. I learned many things from watching my parents, and siblings and I even remember deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up and I feel my desire to help children at that time was so strong it stayed with me. Today I am a teacher pursuing a master in school counseling where I will be able to guide and support children.

Post #2 (B)

Looking back at my lifespan and where I am now I believe my adolescence was an important in helping me become a better person and the person that I am today. During my adolescence year I spent a lot of time taking care of my family and being the head of the household. At the time of me being in high school I didn’t really believe that I would be going off to college or doing anything outside of taking care of my family. I sort of built a fear actually to go out and do something for myself. During this stage in my life I spent more time being vulnerable and being accepting to change. I am someone who used to struggle with wanting the approval of others . I learned very quickly in my adolescence stages that I had to worry about myself just a little bit more and start doing things for myself. In my adolescents I created stronger friendships and romantic relationships. Though I was a lot younger a lot of the relationships I had definitely reinforced me into being around people more and spending quality time with the people I love. I often think about my adolescent years and try to write my wrongs for them now in my adulthood. Though the past is the past there are things I wish I would’ve done differently rather than let my emotions get the best of me. I still harbor a lot of guilt from my adolescence that I am trying to heal from and walk away from. For example, my relationship with my mom was hard and oftentimes we spent most times butting heads then actually working on our relationship. Now that I am older I am trying to fix those issues with my mom. We don’t really speak on the things that have happened , but we try our best to listen to each other’s feelings, remain calm when things get hard, and just respect each other’s boundaries as individuals.