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Erikson's first stage of development is very important because it will give the child their fist ideas of how the world around them will be and treat them. As a baby, from what I've been told at least, I was given lots and care and love by and from my parents and I don't really have any reason to believe I wasn't given those things since I do trust them. My parents always said that I was a very docile baby, not a big crier or trouble maker. Maybe that's due to how I was cared for or maybe that's just an innate trait to me since I'm still that way to this day.

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Erikson's second stage focus on the child gaining a bit more of their own will and personal control over they things they are able to do. I still don't have too many memories from this age, but when I was a toddler I love to go out into our huge backyard and explore things by myself. I remember I found a box turtle by myself and wanted to keep it but we ended up letting him go at Southeast Way Park. As far as I can remember it wasn't very hard how to gain a little independence in toilet training myself either, which I know is a big step in this process. I definitely gained a bit of my independence a bit easier and I can still feel that is true to this day.

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Erikson's third stage to me is all about how one expresses themselves socially as a kid, particularly gaining good skills if they attend preschool. Here I start to gain a bit more of my long lasting memories as well. For me, I had to be a good preschooler, namely because my mom and grandmother were the teachers. I was great and had lots of friends and cared for them all. Its also where I made one of my first lifelong friends, Jonah. Having my mom as the teacher and grandma as my teacher really sparked fear in me that I used as a motivation to be good and play fair and be nice. It really did benefit me looking back and I still use really good social skills to this day, I feel really mature for my age and that's probably due to this stage mostly.

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To me, this stage is all about developing a good sense of what your worth and pride is through how you interact socially and preform academically. For me this stage was easy, as I could use the social skills built by the pervious stage and with my brains, which turned out to be good at the time, as I qualified for the accelerated program at our school. I made lots of friends here and school work came naturally for me. I definitely developed a good sense of worth and pride here, some might even call what me and my friends had an ego.

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To me, Erikson's 5th stage is all about developing as sense of identity and belonging. I felt really confused in this stage I think. During this time my grandma and grandfather got a divorce because he was having an affair. To be truthful, he always hated me. For some reason I blamed part of it on me and my sense of worth really diminished here. I would lash out at friends because I was always so mad at the world and lose them. Then I got in a fight with my best friend at the time and everyone ended up kind of just abandoned me and left me behind. I really messed up here and it sucks to look back on it, I lost that sense of belonging. I ended up not going to school at all for the entire last month of 8th grade because i was so consumed in my own thoughts.

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To me, Erikson's sixth stage is all about forming meaningful, intimate relationships with people. This stage was hard for me because finding that sense of identity and belonging was a swing and a miss for me. I tried to go into high school thinking it would be a new slate for me and a new beginning. Thankfully it was, I made lots of new friends and still have a lot of them to this day. Even though I still constantly struggle with depression my friends still accept me for who I am and who I was and I was lucky to find them. I would also have my first really relationship here, which was a good learning experience to say the least. I feel like I did well for myself in this stage.

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For me, Erikson's 7th stage is all about finding your purpose in the world and what your meant to do for the next 70 years, and create the life to achieve that. For me, I'm still creating that life, after high school I wasn't sure what to do with myself. I really just floated around ideas for a bit since I never found that belonging sense. Then I started working as an IA at an elementary school and immediately fell in love with it. So now I've found my passion and my drive for my life, I'm just working on building upon it to become a teacher now that I'm in college.

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Erikson's final stage, occurs as an old person and it's all about looking back on life, and accepting how it was or living the rest of your life with regret and spite. For me, I'm not sure how I'll feel when I'm about to kick the bucket. I'm still pretty young and have plenty of time to feel satisfied, but on the flip that might not ever happen and I could end up living with regret until I die. I can see both angles here which is pretty scary but, it is what it is.