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this stage is very important as this is where the child learns if they can trust or mistrust their parents. My Dads parents would pick him up and hold him whenever he cried. they would also rock him and sing him songs to try and get him to calm down. My grandma said that my dad was a very fussy baby, so this took them a while. "As babies age, they begin to learn that crying serves as a communicative function" I chose this quote because that was how my dad learned to trust his parents. Every time hr cried, they came and comforted him.

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this stage occurs from about 18 months about 3 years. During this stage, children learn a greater sense of self control. During this stage when my dad was little, his mom would let him pick out his clothes every once in a while to give him a sense of control. "As children are better able to make their wishes understood, they become more powerful and independent"

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the 3rd stage is described as children balancing the urge to pursue goals with reservations of doing so. An example of this would be when my dad wanted to help his mom do things, but didn't understand that he could not help so he got upset. My dad when he was little, like many others, want to do more and more. "preschool children can do-and want to do more and more. at the same time they are learning that some of the things that they want to learn do meet social approval whereas some things do not."

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during this stage, children need to learn the productive skills that their cultures require. if they don't, they face feelings of inferiority. during this stage children need to be praised for things, if they are not, they face feelings of inferiority. An example of this would be when my dad was helping his mom with cleaning up toys and when he was done his mom said "good job!" this made my dad feel very happy, which made him want to help out more. "if children are unable to obtain praise, they start to feel feelings of low worth."

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during this stage, children seek to develop a coherent sense of self which includes the role that he or she has to play in society. An example of this would be when my dad figured out that he liked girls, and eventually fell in love with my mom when they were in junior year of high school. "the chief task of adolescence is to achieve identity vs identity confusion"

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during this stage, people seek to make commitments to each others. doing this may lead to isolation if it does not go the way they would like it to. For example, my dad liked my mom while he was in high school, but my mom was in another relationship. he finally confessed to her but they broke up after a bit and they both did not talk to each other for a very long time until they both confessed to have feelings for each other again. "people seek to make commitments to each other"

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during this stage, people become more concerned with raising children and teaching the next generation. According to Erickson, if people do not do this. they feel personal impoverishment. "Mature adults become more concerned with leading and raising next generation"

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during the last stage, Elderly people achieve acceptance of their lives, and acceptance of death. Not doing this leads to despair of not being able to relive life. "elderly person accepts life and death or becomes despaired over not being able to relive life."

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