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Bel 311 Week 4 Stage Research Paper

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Did I Develop Normally? As a healthy child grows physically they are also growing emotionally. Do all children react to life the same? No, children have different needs and the react differently depending on how they see it. My mom talks “about her dad’s brothers were given the same treatment for punishment and how different her uncles turned out”. The different emotional stages people go through as they grow older. In the first stage Learning Basic Trust versus Basic Mistrust. In this stage, the ground work is laid for how a child grows emotionally. According to Staff, “the child, well-handles, nurtured, and loved, develops trust and security” (Staff 2011). The other part of this stage doesn’t turn out so well. According to Staff if a child is “badly handled, he becomes insecure and mistrustful” (2011). Does that mean that the child life is “set in …show more content…

As children start school he learns more than reading, writing, and math. School is where they learn to give and take with children that they aren’t as familiar with. As Staff states “relating with peers according to the rules” (2011). Children learn that not everyone will have the same rules as their parents have. Especially if their mom is a stay at home mom they learn to do what another person in authority. Preschoolers play like they want they often make their own rules, as grow older they learn to play games that have rules that they need to follow (Staff 2011). And of course with growing older comes responsibility. As the child enters kindergarten and first grade it is expected that they will gain a certain amount of knowledge. Elementary school was hard for me. I struggled through it. I guess I would fit into Erikson’s theory of Industry versus Inferiority. I don’t remember how old I was when I was inferior but I do remember struggling with it. I think that personality can play in there sometimes. So far I’ve been pretty close to Erikson’s

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