1. Choose a famous person to research. The person needs to have lived through all 10 stages of development.
2. You will apply course content as you analyze this person’s life.
Identify the main points of the person’s development for each of the 10 stages. Make sure each stage includes physical, socioemotional, sexual, and educational development. Consider major events, influences, changes, etc.
List the developmental stage with the points.
Be descriptive. Be creative. Have fun with it.
3. Your presentation needs to be 3-4 minutes in length.
Prenatal
What is the culture around parenting in the country of birth? Do they do ‘gentle parenting’, or do they have a different approach? Is the culture collectivistic or individualistic?
How much access to education do the parents have for child-rearing? Are they the type to actually look for and read such material?
How do each of the parents feel about being the pregnancy? Do each feel ready for a child?
Does the mother have healthcare? What does maternity leave look like in their country and job?
What are the parent’s relationship like with their own parents? (Can roll for the parent’s attachment style, as well as the grandparents)
What genetic predispositions might the child have?
What is the family history like? Are there higher rates of certain diseases? Cancer? Obesity?
Did the mother opt for a natural birth or c-section, is that what they really wanted?
What level of support did the mother have? Parents? The father? Friends? If the mother is young, where their parents supportive? If the mother is older, are both parents even still alive?
How long had the mother and father been together prior to the pregnancy?
Infancy/Toddlerhood
Is there a goodness-of-fit?
How much time do the parent(s) have to spend with the kid? How much time do they use infant directed speech?
How stressed is the mother, and how does that impact the kid? Is she patient? How much sleep is she getting?
Does she experience postpartum depression?
Is she able to breastfeed? If not, how does she feel about that?
Is the kid meeting all their developmental milestones? (worth rolling for)
What were their first words?
Who spent the most amount of time with them during infancy and now? Is it the parent, a family member, or babysitter/daycare? Who watches them when the parent works?
What is the parent’s attachment style, and how does that affect their relationship with the kid?
What is their favorite toy or activity?
Early Childhood
What do they get in trouble for the most?
How do the parents punish the child? Do they use punishment more than reward?
Do they have siblings, if so, how do they get along?
Could they attend preschool? (Could the parents afford it, how expensive is it, is it even offered?)
Do they have friends yet? What is their best friend’s name?
What childhood games do they like to play (what are games that children play in that country? Red Roover, Red-Light Green-Light, etc?
Middle Childhood
Is the kid underweight, overweight, or normal?
What is their favorite hobby?
What is their favorite school subject, what is their least favorite?
How do they do socially? Are they popular, do they get picked on, are they into any extracurricular activities?
Do they have a role model?
Adolescence
How do they see themselves?
What do they like about themselves, what do they hate?
What are they insecure about?
How much time do they spend on social media?
Are they at risk of eating disorders, substance abuse, mental health issues?
Emerging Adulthood / Early Adulthood / Middle Adulthood (address all of these stages individually)
What do they look like?
What do they want to do with their life?
How has gender and culture shaped who they are?
What are their values and morals?
What are their most important relationships (family, friends, and dating)?
Do they feel like they belong? Or do they feel misunderstood or lonely?
Did they go to college? If so, where and what major? (address only in the stage it occurred)
What was college like for them, based on their personality and qualities so far? What struggles did they face?
What career(s) did you person pursue based on their earlier life and interests?
How much difficulty did they have navigating Intimacy vs. Isolation? What was their attachment style, and how did it impact their relationships?
Did they marry? If so, how old were they? What is their partner’s name?
Did they want to have kids? Were they able to have kids? (About 10% of people experience fertility problems, if you want to roll for it). Did they consider adoption if they weren’t able to have their own?
Based on the career they pursued, assume they made an average salary for the job based on the country they live in. How much income did they have?
Describe 3 crises, major events, or significant losses they experienced as an adult.
Late Adulthood/End of Life (address each stage individually)
What is their health status?
How is their cognitive functioning?
What are the important relationships in their life?
How is their mental health?
Have they planned for their death?
Are they spiritual? Have hobbies? What do they do in their leisure time?
What is their financial status?
If deceased, what was the cause, any other known details? (family with them, estate planning, etc)
