Spread the loveWhile observing my son playing with his peers today, I reflected on child development and how children from each generation end up the same way through life. I was brought back to my days as a graduate student and a paper I wrote about Erik Erikson’s eight phases of psychosocial development. From infancy to maturity, Erikson proposed that personality develops in a strict sequence via eight phases of psychosocial development. The individual goes through a psychological crisis at each level, positively or negatively impacting their personality development. My two-and-a-half-year-old kid is at stage 2: autonomy vs. guilt and uncertainty. It […]

Spread the loveErikson explained this as a group of crucial problems which persons must sort as they walk through every one of the eight stages of life. Each crisis comprises a choice or dilemma that carries both risks and advantages, in which one alternative or choice is generally considered healthier or more desirable. Crises of infants and preschoolers: Infants face a crisis about trust and mistrust. They’re happiest if they can sleep, eat, and excrete according to their physiological schedules, irrespective of whether those schedules are suited to the caregiver. As young infants cannot influence or control a caregiver’s scheduling […]