Throughout my journey as a graduate student I feel as though I have spent almost more time reflecting on my life than counseling. More so, being able to reflect on ones life can give such beautiful insight, it can be challenging, however, once you allow it to happen it’s like an addiction, you can’t stop. Therefore, when finding out about this paper I was surprisingly interested and excited to reflect on my life through a developmental lens. More importantly, there were incidences that stood out like a sore thumb, from my mother’s pregnancy to my early childhood years. To start off, when my mother became pregnant it was considered a roughly normal age at that time, she was twenty-three, graduated from college and had a stable job. Unfortunately,
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Most importantly, I was healthy; I was just under the average birth weight of seven to seven and a half pounds (Newman & Newman, 2015 pg.139). Newman and Newman explain the Apgar scoring method as a method which scores the five life signs, heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color on a scale of zero to two, the scores are then added up to receive the overall Apgar score (Newman & Newman, 2015, pg. 139). The score is used to determine if there is an intervention that needs to take place. Thankfully, I was healthy and had an Apgar score of eight, meaning I was in “good condition” (Newman & Newman, 2015, pg. …show more content…
At this time I started to see how all of the other parents were always coming to school for holiday functions and award ceremonies but mine couldn’t. As a kid I had friendships and was involved in peer play but it always felt as if something was missing. I would frequently sit alone when it came to days my parents couldn’t make it to my school events. I struggled with Erikson’s initiative vs. guilt, I felt guilty frequently because I felt alone and sad I just wanted my parents there but I knew they had to work, I knew they needed to work and provide for us but it sucked being alone. Most of the time my parents would ask my grandparents to come in for me because they couldn’t make it or they would ask my aunt who worked at the school but it wasn’t the
Most importantly, I was healthy; I was just under the average birth weight of seven to seven and a half pounds (Newman & Newman, 2015 pg.139). Newman and Newman explain the Apgar scoring method as a method which scores the five life signs, heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and color on a scale of zero to two, the scores are then added up to receive the overall Apgar score (Newman & Newman, 2015, pg. 139). The score is used to determine if there is an intervention that needs to take place. Thankfully, I was healthy and had an Apgar score of eight, meaning I was in “good condition” (Newman & Newman, 2015, pg. …show more content…
At this time I started to see how all of the other parents were always coming to school for holiday functions and award ceremonies but mine couldn’t. As a kid I had friendships and was involved in peer play but it always felt as if something was missing. I would frequently sit alone when it came to days my parents couldn’t make it to my school events. I struggled with Erikson’s initiative vs. guilt, I felt guilty frequently because I felt alone and sad I just wanted my parents there but I knew they had to work, I knew they needed to work and provide for us but it sucked being alone. Most of the time my parents would ask my grandparents to come in for me because they couldn’t make it or they would ask my aunt who worked at the school but it wasn’t the