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I'm going to tell you the story 

of how you became you! From 

before you were a baby until 

you reach old age. 

Your life began when you 

were still inside your 

mommy's tummy. At this 

point, you were called a 

fetus. 

It was at 

this time 

that your 

entire body 

started to 

form. 

your parents have been able to see you since 

before you were even born!

Hopefully 

while your 

mom was 

pregnant, 

she stayed 

healthy and 

only ate 

healthy and 

appropriate 

things. 

After living inside her for about 

9 months, your mom gave 

birth to you. The doctor 

checked to make sure you 

were breathing right away!

  Doctors made sure you...

When you were a baby, you had a few 

reflexes that were important in your 

growth. 

1) Babinski 

      - toe curls

2) Moro

      - opening your arms

3) Plantar

      - moving your big toe

4) moving your legs like you're stepping 

or swimming

From when you were a newborn to about 1 

year old, you were in the critical period. This 

means you need to be able to do and 

experience certain things to grow up properly.  

For the first year of your life, the only worry you had was 

food! The amount of food and comfort you got during this 

time affects how you feel towards the world as a whole. 

For example,you either are very trusting or you don't like 

trusting other people. 

Going into the second year of your life, you take 

in the world by touching things, tasting things, 

and smelling things.

You probably didn't like strangers. This is because 

you didn't already have an idea of who they were 

and their faces didn't fit anything you were used 

to.

Remember that game your parents played with 

you... peek-a-boo? Well that gave you a sense of 

object permanence. Object permanence is when 

even though something is covered, you know it's 

there. 

Since you were about two, you've learned a lot. At the age 

you are now, about six or seven, you've learned how to walk, 

talk, control your own body and rely on yourself. 

When you were about 3, the main thing you 

learned was how to control your body and the 

world around you. This is told in Stage 2 of 

Erickson's stages of development.

Your imagination also starts to come into play 

during these years, especially when you try to 

bring dolls and action figures to life. That 

practice of pretending something is alive when 

it really isn't, is called animism. 

It is likely that at this age, you feel that the 

world revolves around you, therefore you are 

egocentric. Piaget would say that you are in 

the preoperational stage of development. 

At this age, you want to try to understand 

everything. you also want to feel like you are a 

god person who has the opportunity to 

explore. 

All "healthy" people can form attachments. 

Your parents have a lot of power over your 

ability to attach yourself to others. If your 

parents don't touch you or spend enough time 

with you, you could have issues forming 

attachments later on in life. 

Harry Harlow tested this on baby monkeys. All 

the times that being comforted or touched 

could make the monkeys happier, they went to 

a fake monkey covered in cloth as opposed to 

a wire one who just had food. 

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