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Age 3 -  Madison got her first softball bat and tee to start her new beginning in softball.

In this stage children focus on developing a sense of control over physical skills and independence. By the child taking control over herself swinging the bat and hitting the ball off the tee she was successful in this scenario. By the child being encouraged and supported she was able to create a virtue of strong will and confidence.

"The strength that emerges during this stage is will. As children are better able to make their wishes understood, they become more powerful and independent." Child McGraw-Hill

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Age 6- Madison started playing for her first little league softball team and fell in love with the game!

Madison played her first season of little league. She was able to thrive n an environment of adults supporting and encouraging her. This helped her form the love for the sport. Madison asserted herself more frequently and independently through direct play and and interaction with her peers. This helped the child develop a sense of initiative and to feel secure in her abilities. Playing little league was a vital stage in life for the her to create a sense of worth and to progress her interpersonal skills.

"The need to deal with conflicting feelings about yourself is at the heart of stage 3 psychosocial development identified by Erik Erkison initiative vs guilt."  Child McGraw-Hill

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Age 8:  Child did not make the team.

When Madi tried out for an All-Star team she had previously made, she did not make it the second year. This caused her to feel like she was no longer good enough. This is an example of making a child feel inferior. The sense that society is demanding something from them that they can not provide or live up to can cause anguish. This can have a child doubting their own abilities and can cause them to doubt their own abilities and can cause them to not reach their full potential. In this instance, she did not succumb to the demands of feeling inferiority. She worked hard and kept progressing her softball skill set to overcome the crisis within this stage of life. She was able to look past what could have been a set back to form a better sense of industry and self worth.

"If children are unable to obtain praise of others or lack of motivation and self esteem, they may develop a feeling of low self worth and thus develop a sense of inferoity."

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Age 10- Made her first travel team!

Madi made her first travel softball team. She worked hard and achieved her goal. In this stage children often begin to learn to do things on their own. Being on travel team helps the child do more on their own. This is also a  stage where a child's peers begin to influence their self worth. By making a team of like-minded athletes, the child is surrounded by peers that have the same value and moral compass. In this stage the child formed a sense of pride and competent for society's approval. By making a team based off of skills, the child can be proud of their own accomplishments. Without this success, the child could form a sense of inferiority and loose their sense of value through the demands of society.

"Developing a sense of industry , by contrast, involves learning how to work hard to achieve goals. Child, McGraw-Hill

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Age 14: Madison was let go from her long term travel team. This led to a crisis in the identity and role confusion.  In this stage the child went through an intense exploration of her self identity and worth. This identity crisis could have caused the child to spiral and experiment with different role. Sometimes these roles can cause the child to rebel against society. In this particular scenario, the child was able to overcome the identity crisis. She did not allow the pressure or negative experience to form her self image, She took a rough situation that could have defeated her, and turned it into a growing experience.

"The effort to make sense of the self is part of a healthy process that builds on the achievements of earlier stages on trust,  , and industry-and lays the groundwork for coping what the challenges of life." Child, McGraw-Hill

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Age 15: Madison has came into a different life chapter, SHe is thriving in a new travel team as well as her high school softball team. She has rediscovered herself and her worth through an extreme exploration of personal values and goals. She believes in hard work and self perseverance. She is coming into her own as a leader and a team player. Within this stage she is coming into her own roles that she will use into adulthood. She is forming a sense of fidelity within her softball and high school community. With the child being able to fully commit to her own image and self awareness she is able to form a better understanding of her identity.

"Fidelity can also mean identification with a set of values, an ideology, a religion, a political movement, a creative pursuit, or an ethnic group. Erikson saw that prime danger of this stage as identity confusion." CHild McGraw-Hill