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Malachi Theo Graham 79, died Friday, January 16, 2098 when he and his wife Juliana were on a couple's retreat in Australia on a walk behind their resort, Malachi was bitten by a very venomous spider. The family had a private service at the top of King's Canyon Rim Walk on January 20, 2098. He lived a very adventurous life, full of traveling, happiness and great work accomplishments. Not only did he touch many peoples' lives, many touched his. He is survived by his loving wife, 2 children and 6 grandchildren. If you would like to send your condolences, the family requests you make a donation in his honor to the World Wildlife Fund to support his love of nature and animals.

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At age 79, Malachi and his wife decide to take a relaxing couple's retreat to Australia. While there, they participate in as many activities as their aging bodies allow in attempts to make the best of this spontaneous trip. While enjoying a nice scenic walk behind their resort, Malachi is bitten by a rare and very venomous spider. His wife tries her best to get the attention of a local to call an ambulance to get him medical attention. Unfortunately, his old age, the strong venom of the spider and the delay of medical attention causes Malachi to die. His kids and their families fly in to Australia to hold an intimate funeral ceremony for Malachi. They decide to cremate him and spread his ashes in the King's Canyon Rim Walk to honor his adventurous spirit.

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Malachi is now 72 years old, he is 6'1, and weighs 175 lbs. Now retired, Malachi spends his day with his wife and grandchildren enjoying the simple things in life. Looking back, he is very pleased by the career choices he made as he loved both of his nursing jobs and was able to accomplish many things while also saving money to continue a comfortable living. He is still trying to lead a healthy lifestyle even in his older age by taking walks every day and eating as balanced of a diet as possible with his decreasing appetite. These days, he is also noticing that he is able to sleep less than usual and wakes up very early in the day.

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Malachi is now 56 years old, is 6'2 and weighs 223 lbs. Malachi maintains a healthy diet and still enjoys going to the gym often, but because of his age his body is no longer as toned as it once was. He is still married to his wife of 30 years. His two kids have now had kids of their own and he is a proud grandfather of 6. After losing his job and going back to school, Malachi is now employed in a new hospital as a Nurse Anesthetist, making more money than he did before. At this point in life, he is now an expert in his field. Although he loves his career, he plans on being able to retire within the next 10 or so years as the stress of the job and slow decline in cognitive performance have begun taking a toll on his health through the high levels of stress. He does still enjoy hiking and exploring new places with his beloved wife on their days off together.

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The hospital Malachi is employed at goes under new management and receives budget cuts. They tell him that they need to lower his salary, but he is unwilling to accept this fate. Malachi gets fired from his job because they can no longer afford to pay him. He decides to take out a loan, go back to school and begin a Nurse Anesthetist program in order to be able to make even more money at his next job.

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Malachi is now 37 years old, 6'3, and weighs 210 lbs. Although he is no longer in his peak physical form, he still enjoys working out and staying healthy. He is happily married and has 2 kids. He is currently employed as a Nurse Practitioner at a local hospital and works in the trauma center. He has always been extremely intelligent, graduated at the top of his class and receives one of the highest salaries out of all the nurses in the hospital. His job comes with a high level of stress, but he uses his days off to hike with his wife in order to remain relaxed. He also enjoys attending church with his family on Sundays.

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While working at Panera Bread, one day Malachi got called back into his manager's office to have a talk. His manager proceeds to show him security videos as evidence that he has been caught giving his friends free pastries when they come visit. Malachi ends up getting fired and is unemployed for 6 months while he searches for another job.

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He is now 19 years old, weighs 183 lbs, and is 6'1 tall and is now in Piaget's formal operational stage. His ability to process information has improved and the portion of the brain that understands and regulates emotions has matured. Because he goes to college, works, and does extracurriculars, he tries to get 8 hours of sleep per night but sometimes it doesn't happen. His peer group has recently changed as he started attending a local university and got a job working at Panera Bread. He also volunteers at a pet shelter during his free time on the weekends. Although he is in school, he still lives at home with his parents and they are all very close.

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Malachi has a good concept of himself as a person, and identifies as male. He is well liked by his peers and is considered a "Popular child". He not only gets along well with his friends, but is close to his parents. In order to be able to both discipline, but show him a mutual respect, Malachi's parents both enforce an authoritative parenting style. His parents are constantly pushing him to do his best. They have enrolled Malachi in a Spanish course and in a club soccer team.

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He is now nine years old, weighs 65 lbs, is 52.7" tall and is now in the concrete operational stage. He looks up to his teachers as his MKO's, really loves learning and excels in school. Malachi has been struggling in his math classes and has not been able to understand some of the concepts. We recently took him to his doctor to see if there was something wrong with his development and was diagnosed with a mild case of dyscalculia. (Santrock, 2019)

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Vygotsky states that a child's learning is highly effected by their social interactions. (Santrock, 2019) Malachi being in preschool has greatly helped him develop social skills when making new friends, and being creative while using his imagination during play time. He is very aware of himself and loves being able to pick out his own outfit every day before class. Though he feels comfortable playing dress-up with his girl friends, he identifies as a boy and loves playing with trucks, legos, and his building play set.

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He is now four years old in the preoperational stage at 41.7 inches tall, weighing 38.5 lbs. Although he is still a clumsy 4-year-old, Malachi is able to run, jump, and play all on his own. His favorite activities include coloring (on paper and all over the walls), playing on the playground, and dancing to his favorite songs. He is a very talkative child, always asking questions and telling his parents about his day. He sometimes complains about being away from his parents for a long time or about how some kids don't know how to share their toys in his pre-k class. But, he also brags about all the new friends he has and how much fun he has going down the slides on the playground and learning new things. Malachi sometimes comes home with a common cold, or an ear infection, but he is lucky enough to never been seriously ill.

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When Malachi is standing he pushes down on his legs and when laying on his back he tries to roll over onto his stomach. According to Piaget, Malachi is in the sensorimotor phase of development. This means that he is now becoming more object-oriented and is very interested in playing with his activity gym. He is very vocal and loves to coo to get and keep all the attention on him.

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Malachi has now reached 2 years old.
He now weighs 28.6 lbs, is 35.2 inches tall and is beginning to show more language skills and knows how to communicate with a wide variety of words and phrases. He enjoys going to his daycare program because he gets to participate in many different fun learning activities and play with his new friends. Although he stumbles at time, Malachi has developed more control over his body and fully understands how to use his limbs. Although he is securely attached with an easy temperament, Malachi prefers to be around his parents as he considers them to be his safety net, especially in new and uncharted territory. Malachi has an easy-going personality, he loves to talk and meet new friends to play with.

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Malachi has now reached 6 months of age. He now weighs 17.2 lbs, is 26inches tall and is beginning to show us more about his developing personality. He seems to be securely attached to both his caregivers, and will soon be enrolled in daycare. Although there are negatives of daycare such as being influenced by bad kids, not receiving proper care, or possibly develop an insecure attachment to the parents. There are however, much better positives such as being able to create stable bonds with other caregivers, having an opportunity to participate in learning activities, and developing social skills. Both of Malachi's caregivers did plenty of research in order to find the best daycare program possible.

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Frick, M. A., Forslund, T., Fransson, M., Johansson, M., Bohlin, G., & Brocki, K. C. (2018). The role of sustained attention, maternal sensitivity, and infant temperament in the development of early self‐regulation. British Journal of Psychology, 109(2), 277–298. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12266.

Hall, J., Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., Siraj, B. I., & Taggart, B. (2009). The role of pre-school quality in promoting resilience in the cognitive development of young children. Oxford Review of Education, 35(3), 331–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980902934613

Santrock, J. W. (2019). Human Growth & Development (17th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

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"APGAR" is an acronym for Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration. It is graded on a scale of 0-2 and is used to score whether or not the newborn baby needs immediate medical attention. If the child scores below a "7", then it must be either kept for observation, or immediately be seen by a medical professional. Malachi's score at 1 minute was an 8, because he only grimaced and didn't immediately cry, and because although he was mainly pink, he had a slight blue tinge. However, when examined again at 5 minutes, he received a perfect score of 10. (Santrock, 2019)

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Malachi Theo Graham was born at 7 pounds, 8 ounces and is 21.5 inches tall at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, GA.