Describe the role of your caregivers during the early years and their impact on your development.

Describe your earliest memories.
Did you meet all milestones during your early years? How did meeting them/not meeting them affect you (positively/negatively)?
Describe the role of your caregivers during the early years and their impact on your development.
Did you have siblings? Were you an only child? Adopted? Was your family blended? Describe the impacts of family composition on your early development.
What were your educational and social experiences during this period?

Middle Childhood (Connect responses to developmental theories.)
Describe and analyze your memories of this stage of life. Did you experience peer pressure during middle childhood?
How important were peers for you at this stage of development?
Describe school experiences that you had, both struggles and strengths.
Describe fears/anxiety/self-esteem/other emotional developmental issues that you experienced.
Discuss your relationships with your caregivers during middle childhood and their impact on your development.

Adolescence (Connect responses to developmental theories.)
Describe and analyze your memories from this stage of life.
How important were peers for you during the adolescent period?
Describe your school experiences during adolescence.
Discuss your relationships with caregivers and their impact on your development.

Early-Middle Adulthood (Connect responses to developmental theories.)
What was the transition into adulthood like for you? How did you know that you were an adult? Was there a ‘rite of passage’ that you went through to get there?
Discuss physical and cognitive developmental milestones as they have related to you during this phase of life.
How influential have peers been throughout early/middle adulthood?
Discuss relationships (romantic and platonic) for you during this stage of adulthood.
Describe emotional development for you during early/middle adulthood.

Late Adulthood
If you are in this stage currently, discuss physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development in late adulthood.
If you are in this stage currently, how does heredity and environment influence you at this point?
If you are not in this stage, reflect on what you would like to be like at this stage. What are your fears and what are you looking forward to?
Discuss your thoughts related to death, dying, bereavement.
Provide an overall reflection of your developmental journey thus far, as well as your journey in this class. What have you learned and what would you like to know more about?

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