Stage 1: Infancy ( 0 -18 months )
Can trust these people?
- Trust, bonding and attachment
- Explain rules, boundaries and consequences
- Learning through exploration and being stimulated
- Between 10 and 18 months emotions are fully developed
Stage 2: Toddlers (18 months – 2 years)
Learning to think
- Trust, bonding and attachment
- Working on ways to have needs met
- Lack skills to do everything they want – may lead to frustration
- Not able to handle complex emotions – may lead to tantrums
- Not able to share
Stage 3: Pre-School (2 – 4 years)
Other people
- ‘No’,’I want’,’gimme’ stage
- High energy stage
- Begin to master three skills – language, movement and imagination
- Act out emotions and needs as unable to express them
- Will copy everything you do
- Learns through repetition
Stage 4: Primary School (4 – 11 years)
I’ll do it my own way!
- Building confidence
- More responsibility & independence at school & home learn important social skills, playing with others, learning to share, to take turns, how to get along and make friends
- Frequently fall in and out of friendships
Stage 5: Adolescence ( 12 – 18 years)
I’ll do it my own way!
- Establishing independence
- “Who am I?” Developing identity separate from parents – parents are in the background
- Frequently fall in and out of friendships
- Mistake prone by design
- Learn from doing & making mistakes
- Child to adult
- Seeks peer approval
- The brain is not fully developed until mid 20’s
