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

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,