These 8 weeks flew! The ending of this course is bittersweet. I had the opportunity to learn so much, and meet some great fellow classmates that only lifted each other's spirits. Commenting on one another's blogs was a great way to interact and get to know each other on a personal level. And lets not forget an incredible professor that made us realize the importance of the life span development, and ways to incorporate these variety of theories in our daily lives. Hopefully we can become better mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, teachers, students, overall better individuals and take what we learned in these 8 weeks and implement them in our lives, and the lives of our loved ones.
Like Fiore mentions in chapter 13, we started off in the beginning of the book asking why. And now that we've come to the final chapter we ask ourselves now what? What's next? What do we do with the information that was taught? There are many fields you can use the wisdom that we have absorbed such as business, communications, criminal justice, EDUCATION (woot woot), elderly services, medicine, mental health, and public services.
There should not be a specific field to work in to know the basic information of lifespan development. It can be a tool to understand your child better, or understand teenagers, adults, and senior citizens. I, myself, have a better perspective on how children behave, learn, think, and feel. Learning about how kids grow physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively can leave a deeper understanding of kids all ages as development can be complex as we all learned that first hand.
Leaders, parents, teachers, and so many more people can learn so much just by understanding one another and having a sense of empathy.
Remember that we don't ever really fail at anything especially at any of these stages of life, or the stages of theories that interest you, like Erikson's stages. We either win, or we learn from it and move on. No one is a failure.
I am going to sign off with one of my favorite quotes by Maya Angelou:
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
