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In the final stage, the question that is primarily asked is, "What have I regretted? Am I happy with the outcome of my life?" If you have very little to no regrets, you have developed a very strong integrity. "We each continue to write and experience the story of development as long as we are alive" (page 357). I have a little bit until I get to this point, but I feel like my life will resolve into me having integrity. Right now the only regrets I have are that I should have been a little more outgoing and open to new friends. I plan to live to see my grandchildren and tell them about my life story and see them happy and healthy.

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While exploring middle adulthood, we find ourselves either wanting to have children and watching them grow or being without them. I plan to have children, so I will be trying to develop generativity. "What occurs in a child's world is significant but not the whole story" ( page 357). I feel like this fits perfectly here because our story isn't over once we have children. Parents take what they learn from growing up, both what worked and didn't and parent off of experience. Through my different experiences, I am determined to encourage my children to make friends, be outgoing, and just enjoy their childhood! To me, that will give the best possible outcome for them!

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Being 21, this is the stage that I am in. During young adulthood, we are trying to form intimate and long-lasting relationships, whether romantic or not, with people. "the intensity and importance of friendships and the amount of time spent with friends are probably greater in adolescence than at any other time in the life span" (page 352). This quote from the book does mention adolescence, but I feel as if this is imperative to being able to be able to develop those long-lasting relationships with others. Over the past 1-2 years, most of my life has been online. I have many online friends, I work a decent job, I have a decent home life, but I still do not have many real, friends. I have never really known what true friends are, nor do I really have the courage to go out and meet people because I have been alone most of my life. With this in mind, I feel like I have developed very set isolation for myself. But hey, I need to be optimistic! I'm young and I still have 2 more stages to go through! Life may be short, but the memories I can make with other can last forever!

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This stage happens during our adolescent years. We strive to find out who we are and what our purpose is in the world. I always had questions like "What do I want to do in life?" and "Why am I here, doing what I am doing now?" These questions really made me think and I had no answers. Every day I would wake up and feel lost in my own shoes. In the book it states, prevalence of depression increases during adolescence ( page 312). I would find this to be very true and would wake up a lot of days feeling really down in the dumps. My greatest friends were my teachers, I had no real friends, and I felt like my only successes in life were my grades and my athletic abilities. I had no idea what I was doing on this earth and was struggling to find an answer. I became more and more saddened each unanswered day. This really made me confused in what my role was in the world.

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When one starts grade school, it is important for a child to find what peaks their interest and to start to complete work that is productive. Many of the students are making new friends and begin to develop self-esteem. Around this age, many children have a misconception that they are either all bad, or all good (page 209). This can be majorly effected by how a child is praised or punished for the good or bad deeds that they do. During elementary school, my dad was very strict with his coaching, but I have tried almost every sport with him as my coach. He would always push me above and beyond my abilities, wishing for nothing but my success. This allowed me to develop more, new skills in these sports which, in turn, resulted in industry. When it came to these sports, he has always been my biggest supporter with my mother following close behind. This gave me a great support group which helped me believe in myself.

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When we are first brought into this world, it is clear that we cannot fend for ourselves. We need someone there to provide our basic needs. This includes food, water, and care. When Aliyah gave birth to her newborn child, she knew instantly the new role as a caretaker and a mother. While Aliyah was exhausted from taking care of her newborn son, she was overjoyed with her new role in life and continued falling more in love with her son each and every day (page 79). This shows that when a child is born, the parents have a very important role of being that newborn baby's caretaker. While my mother worked right across the street from our house at the local college, my dad was rarely ever home. This resulted in me developing a mistrust in him and could be one of the key reasons that I do not have as close of a relationship as I do with my mother.

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Between the ages of 18 months and 3 years old, we get into psychosocial development. When going through this stage, it is important to see if the child can complete different tasks by themselves or if they may require a little bit of help from others. While Zev was hanging out with his father and a guest, a pen dropped to the ground and rolled under a cabinet. Zev was able to crawl under the cabinet, grab the pen, and handed it to the guest with a smile (page 147). This shows autonomy of not needing his fathers help in order to do a simple task. Since both of my parents worked, I would usually have someone, my grandma or aunt, watch over me. Especially when my grandma was around, she would allow me to help her bake. I would help pour the milk, push the buttons on the mixer, and help close the oven. After a few times of her telling and showing me how to do it, I would know my role in baking and could do it all by myself.

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Many children in preschool become familiar with new activities. Within these activities, many children will either be comfortable and be able to overcome these challenges or they will be overtaken by guilt and become overwhelmed. Improvements in fine motor skills can allow for children to take more initiative and responsibility in their tasks. These tasks can include dressing themselves, tying their own shoes, and pouring food into a bowl (page 174). Children will be comfortable doing these tasks without hesitation or ask for help and become guilty for not being able to do the task. When I was in preschool, I was given a lesson that I still remember. We had a board with a pretend shoe and real shoelaces. It took me 3 weeks to learn how to tie my shoes "properly," granted they were never tight and I usually had to ask someone to tighten them later. This helped me develop the initiative to tie, and untie, my shoes and gave me the courage to continue to do it every day.