Around the age of fourteen I gave her a little more space so that she wouldn’t say I was stricter than the other parents. The more and more permissive I got the quicker she would try to abuse of the trust I was giving her. I could see the consequences like for example she got drunk at a party once, and the situation of her little tattoo at sixteen. However, when she did get drunk at a party I was proud of her when she called me to go pick her up (Manis, 2006). She trusted me and felt comfortable enough to come to me when she knew she had made a terrible mistake. She was responsible enough to not make a stupid decision and get behind the wheel. This made me realize I was doing something right because she was able to make this life …show more content…
As an infant my child did have separation anxiety (Feldman, 2014, p. 176). She wasn’t her normal self when she was away from me and would often cry. This didn’t last long and as she got older she became more and more independent. Cognitive development is the ability to record information or memory (Feldman, 2014, p. 154). As the cognitive develops and matures infants start retaining more information. Jean Piaget had a theory for the maturing of cognitive development. This psychologist believed that cognitive development involved 4 stages and until these stages were all reached a child could not reach a maximum cognitive potential (Feldman, 2014, p.