What Is Erikson's Second Stage Of Psychosocial Development

Jeffrey possesses the traits of a secure attached child. He uses Seth and I as a type of “home base” for which he uses to explore his environment. He is initially upset when I leave him with the sitter but calms down a little bit after I have been gone. As we near the terrible two stage, Jeffrey has shown more resistance to some of my requests. Knowing I need to lay down firm limits early, I tell him that I need his “help” and have him choose between different activities, both being something I want him to do. Potty training will soon be upon us, so I have gone ahead a bought a potty chair, some training pants, and cute storybooks to read to him and help him learn to use the potty. I praise him for the small step he takes, like waring the training
He has begun to move into Erik Erikson’s second stage of Psychosocial development: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt. He is exploring greater distances and eager to run back and share things with us. He also made his own goal of becoming potty trained and makes it to the potty about 60% of the time. I am very proud of his progress and commitment and reward him with praise and stickers. I feel very in synch with He can achieve basic things without much support or guidance. Jeffrey emotionally and am still sensitive to his varying needs for attention and independence. He has started to developing a sense of self awareness, looking guilty when he breaks something or embarrassed when he has an accident. His communication skills continue to grow and is now speaking in “telegraphic” sentences. He is very excited to learn new words and I converse with him and much as possible and read books of his choosing. He has also entered Piaget’s second stage of Cognitive development: The Preoperational stage. He has difficulty in seeing and understanding other people’s perspectives and is learning through
He has even begun categorizing objects and behaviors as being girly or manly and is starting to prefer playing with boys but still gets along good with girls. He has gotten quite good at expressing his memories and is able to remember recent experiences and provide simple descriptions and to what happened., Seth and I learned that I am expecting our second child! We have agreed to hold off on telling Jeffrey until it is more noticeable to avoid the “how” talk. We had a friend of ours, who is an early childhood development specialist, evaluate Jeffrey before starting a new preschool program. She reports that he is still slow-to warm being hesitant to join the group of children and spending a few minutes watching before joining. Once he did join, he easily latched on to some of them and had a good time. He was generally not very aggressive with the other children but would show instrumental aggression when another child wanted the toy he had. He tackled challenging tasks with a good attitude and is unusually persistent in the face of failure for his age group. He was average in his scores of language comprehensions and production and has begun to show more consistent use in conversational speech of grammatical markers. He is above average in solving problems with more than two steps and group objects together. He is in the average range in copying shapes with a pencil, working picture puzzles, and