Erickson's Initiative Vs. Guilt Period

Erik Erikson’s Initiative vs. guilt period is a stage in where I began to blossom as an individual. I would dress myself in princess dresses and anything pink that I could find. As I was discovering myself my mother allowed me to do so by letting me dress myself for preschool. I feel as though I was very observant at this age and when I did everyday task I usually succeeded in them not because I was taught but I mimicked actions that I saw. I was a very self-reliant child, because I did not like backlash. My mother was very a hard on at a young age and would scold me for not knowing how to things she thought were basic. The period of industry vs. inferiority is a period where I had a lot of battles. My mother did not encourage much of my interest …show more content…
The ecosystems perspective looks at all parts of development as one all system, each a subsystem contributing to the process that individualizes the individual. Interactionalism makes a person who they are, it socializes them. Leslie Atkinson, Barry H. Schneider, and Christine Tardif concluded in Child-Parent Attachment and Children’s Peer Relations: A Quantitative Review, “…intimate experience of family life is more closely associated with the child’s success in forming intense, intimate relationships with friends (2000, pg. 87). As a child I was very close with my nuclear family, so I held friendships in a high regard. As a young adult I still value friendships dearly and feel that friends should be treated as family. My sense of moral development occurred when I was around 10 years old. I had self-control and internalized what was expected of me. I knew that if I made a certain action there would be consequences to follow. I thought about consequence whether they were negative or positive. During my childhood is when I began to become a natural helper. Also very observant, I noticed inequalities in small things. If there was someone that was bullied in the class, I would stand up to the bully (resulting in me fighting). I had no problem befriending the teased child that was subject to their older siblings hand-me-downs. In attempt to resolve my own problems, I displaced my frustration in …show more content…
I did not have a father figure. I stayed in a poverty ridden neighborhood, and I did not attend the best school. However, to accommodate loneliness, a trait I picked up when becoming self-reliant, I read a lot. While trying to escape the real world, I lived through novels, anything I could get my hands on. According to statistics I am an outlier and should never have made it to college. I would not have made it this far living with that social stigma if I did not possess resiliency. It takes a lot for an individual to overcome adversity knowing the odds are against you and the whole of society expects you to fail. Yet, the majority of society that is expecting this failure does not know African-American culture, or the culture of a specific household. In the underfunded school I attended during this time I realized now that there was a major gap in quantity of the education I received, but not quality. Having attended both predominantly black schools and predominately white in the future from this period. I noticed that the teachers in the predominantly black schools have to teach using an ecosystems perspective; they had to take the parts from each child and make into a whole to teach them. My education was colorful and relatable and I scored in the highest percentiles during this