My Development Stage Analysis

Human development is a progressive change in people’s lives over time enables them adapt more effectively to their environments. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009).My development was interesting in every stage because many things influences my life during my development. Social – cultural and moral are the domains that influences my development during middle childhood and adolescence stage.

During the perinatal period my mother was a very healthy pregnant lady and she does not experience morning sickness she ate everything. She was physically active and was not experiencing any emotional health issue. At antenatal stage my parents do not know my gender because there were no qualified midwives that can identify the gender of the baby during the 4 month pregnancy. My mother had to wait to find out the gender of her unborn baby until during labour stage. During the period of her labour she easily delivers the baby without no big issue. Labour can be hard for many pregnant women, but it was easy for my mother because she does not experience the labour pain like normal pregnant women.

At Infancy stage I was physically healthy and my body was functioning as a normal infant. I was breastfeeding and never tasted a

formula at this stage of development. I was born in a village where there is no hospital or no are qualified midwives. When I was 3 months old infants I can coordinate the movement of limbs using fine motor skills. Between 5 and 6 months I start rolling, grasping and starts blabbering words as well as sitting up by myself with no support need which shows that I was using gross motor skills. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009)
By 7 months my thinking develops where I can say mum and dad, I can recognize whom my mother and father is and asked for my mother. I can tell a difference between my mother and strangers by this stage. Around 8 months I started crawling and by 9 months I starts standing up and walking. When I was 10 months old I started talking and communicate with my families. Out of my siblings, I was the quickest child into talking and walking. At the age of 1 years old I started running, talking, eat by myself and when I was at the age of 2 I play around and make friends and asked for toys and cried whenever I don’t get what I want. When I do not get what I want I will cry until I get it. As soon as I get into trouble I became very emotional and will cry until I get comfort from my mother. I had more attachment with my grandmother and will sleep with her instead of my parents.
In early childhood stage I develop to love playing with a Barbie doll and spend most of my time communicating the doll. At this stage my body became physically heavier and gained more weight and height increased. Linking to Erikson theory , at the age of 4 years old my physical appearance change a lot I gained more weight and improve in my fine motor skills where I can start writing and drawing and improve on my gross motor skills skipping and running with my friends on the street where I began to use my leg muscles. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009)
My thinking and thought improve by this stage I began to memorize bible verses that my parents taught me. I attend Sunday school class and understand the story of Adam and Eve and can retell my families about it. I can identify colours, genders and the difference between moral and immoral. I improve my language skills I became to speak Lautu, Burmese clearly and communicate with families. At the age of 6 I learned a new language when I move to the city and began picking up the new language and speak fluently. I manage to help out my mother and sister with the dishes and help them around the kitchen. This shows that m Piaget’s development was involved in my development. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009).I was trained to use toilet at the age of 2 and I succeeded to go toilet by myself without using nappy which shows that Freud’s theory is found in my development. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009)
I began to develop fear when I did something bad and if I didn’t tell the truth, I feel guilty until I tell the truth.

I was afraid I will get in trouble from my mother if I do not confess what I did. This linked to Erikson theory because I was developing guilt and fear when I did something bad. When I 5 years old I believed in “A man with one leg that comes at night to kidnap children who do not sleep”. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009). My parents will always scare me if I do not go to sleep and said a man will one leg will come and get you if you do not sleep. I develop fear in this and began to sleep with my grandmother until I was 8 years old. This is linked to the theory of Piaget where I began to believe in things that are not true. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe,

2009)
Similar to a normal school age children I feel anxious about the changes to attending school. When I was at the age of 6 was not excited to start school to all because I was afraid of the teacher. Compare to school in New Zealand, Burmese school is very strict on Uniform and grades if we do not get good grade we will get hit by teachers because it is legal for teachers to hit students. I was worried about getting hit by teachers, but learn how to read and write linking to the Erikson theory of development. When I reach the school age, I became taller, heavier and mature more because I know that I was growing up. At this stage my gross motor skills and fine motor skills are well developed and I improved throughout this stage. I started playing soccer with the boys where it involves a lot of gross motor skills because I was running more and can run faster than in my early childhood stage. I improve more on my fine motor skills where I improved in my writing and drawing I manage to write by myself and develop writing my own story. (Shaw, Haxell & Wblemoe, 2009)