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Robert Havighurst emphasized that learning is basic and that it continues throughout life span. Growth and Development occurs in six stages.
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Developmental Tasks of Infancy and Early Childhood:
- Learning to walk.
- Learning to take solid foods
- Learning to talk
- Learning to control the elimination of body wastes
- Learning sex differences and sexual modesty
- Forming concepts and learning language to describe social and physical reality.
- Getting ready to read
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Middle Childhood:
- Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games.
- Building wholesome attitudes toward oneself as a growing organism
- Learning to get along with age-mates
- Learning an appropriate masculine or feminine social role
- Developing fundamental skills in reading, writing, and calculating
- Developing concepts necessary for everyday living.
- Developing conscience, morality, and a scale of values
- Achieving personal independence
- Developing attitudes toward social groups and institutions
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Developmental Tasks of Adolescence:
- Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes
- Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
- Accepting one's physique and using the body effectively
- Achieving emotional independence of parents and other adults
- Preparing for marriage and family life Preparing for an economic career
- Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behavior; developing an
ideology - Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior
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Developmental Tasks of Early Adulthood
- Selecting a mate
- Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
- Learning to live with a marriage partner
- Starting a family
- Rearing children
- Managing a home
- Getting started in an occupation
- Taking on civic responsibility
- Finding a congenial social group
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Developmental Tasks of Middle Age
- Achieving adult civic and social responsibility
- Establishing and maintaining an economic standard of living
- Assisting teenage children to become responsible and happy adults
- Developing adult leisure-time activities
- Relating oneself to one’s spouse as a person
- Accepting and adjusting to the physiologic changes or middle age
- Adjusting to aging parents.
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Developmental Tasks of Later Maturity
- Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health
- Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
- Adjusting to death of a spouse
- Establishing an explicit affiliation with one’s age group
- Meeting social and civil obligations
- Establishing satisfactory physical living arrangement
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Living Mindfully
Mindfulness is paying attention, on purpose, in the present, and non-judgementally, to the
unfolding of experience moment by moment.
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m- moment to moment attention
i-In the here and now
n- non judgemental attitude
d- detach from unhelpful thoughts
f- forgive and be grateful
u- unconditional acceptance
l- learn like childlike mindset
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Before you SPEAK : THINK
T- is it true?
h- is it helpful?
i-Is it inspiring?
n- is it necessary?
k- is it kind?
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Breath Mindfully - use your breath as an anchor to still your mind and bring your focus back to the
present moment.
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Listen deeply/ listen with attention – let others fully express themselves and focus on understanding
how they think and feel.
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Cultivate Insight – see life as it is, allowing each experience to be an opportunity for learning.
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Practice Compassion – consider the thoughts and feelings of others and let tenderness, kindness and
empathy be your guides.
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Limit Reactivity – observe rather than be controlled by your emotions. Pause, breathe and choose a
skillful response based on thoughtful speech and non-violence under every condition.
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Express Gratitude- practice gratitude daily and expand it outward, appreciating everyone and
everything you.
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Nurture Mutual Respect- appreciate our common humanity and value different perspectives.
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Build Integrity – cultivate constructive values and consistently act from respect.
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Foster Leadership – engage fully in life and community. Share your unique talents and generosity so
that others can also be.
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Be Peace – cultivate your inner peace, becoming an agent compassion to action.
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