Identity During Adolescence

One of the most fundamental needs that we have as humans is the strive to find our own identity. Identity is extremely important for the middle childhood and later adolescence stages in life, but the identity aspects from those stages stem from an earlier age. The initial development of identity along with the importance of preoperational thinking, autonomy, language development, elaboration of locomotion, fantasy play, imitation, and self control is why toddlerhood is the most important psychosocial crisis stage. As children start to progress from infancy to the ages of 2-4 years, they will begin to recognize themselves as a separate entity from their mothers. Toddlers will start to portray more autonomous features, causing them to use their locomotor …show more content…
Describe one topic discussed this semester which was particularly important to you personally. For example, did the discussion in class and the text on individual identity during later adolescence provide insight into your own journey toward individual identity? Will you interact with your current/future child differently given what you learned about parenting styles? You MUST refer to some concrete information learned from lecture, text, or discussion forums; show me how you applied or will apply to life your newly gained knowledge. (10 …show more content…
One thing that I have come to appreciate is the difficulties my parents made to have me. I was lucky enough to grow in a authoritative, democratic, and reciprocated family. They were always respectful, clear, and consistent to me and my brother, and my parents had very logical consequences that did not involve spanking. My parents’ love continued to express towards me and my brother when it came to disciplining us because I had never felt that the discipline was ever unfair. My parents’ views towards discipling was much more loving and patient than most