Spread the loveWhile observing my son playing with his peers today, I reflected on child development and how children from each generation end up the same way through life. I was brought back to my days as a graduate student and a paper I wrote about Erik Erikson’s eight phases of psychosocial development. From infancy to maturity, Erikson proposed that personality develops in a strict sequence via eight phases of psychosocial development. The individual goes through a psychological crisis at each level, positively or negatively impacting their personality development. My two-and-a-half-year-old kid is at stage 2: autonomy vs. guilt and uncertainty. It … Continue reading Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development