During this period of my life, my mother was taking care me and my two younger siblings. This led me to have time to perform tasks on my own while my mother was focused on my siblings. Even though I fall short of remembering specific memories of this stage of my life, but it is obvious that I was afforded “appropriate and patient guidance” from my parents. As an adult, I have a considerable sense of self-sufficiency and I have no feelings of shame or doubt when I act on it (Swartwood, p. 84). Similar to the crisis in the first stage of Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, I resolved this crisis in a healthy
During this period of my life, my mother was taking care me and my two younger siblings. This led me to have time to perform tasks on my own while my mother was focused on my siblings. Even though I fall short of remembering specific memories of this stage of my life, but it is obvious that I was afforded “appropriate and patient guidance” from my parents. As an adult, I have a considerable sense of self-sufficiency and I have no feelings of shame or doubt when I act on it (Swartwood, p. 84). Similar to the crisis in the first stage of Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, I resolved this crisis in a healthy