s trying to do adult like things; her new favorite hobby is to talk on the phone to her classmates. She is very friendship orientated and labels everyone as her best friend; many girls at school that come over to play, and she also uses it when describing peers in conversation. She appears to very friendly to all children she comes in contact with. Megan is a very active child and has many structured events during the week aside from her normal daily schooling. Every Monday night she has gymnastics class right after school, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays she plays soccer during the fall. During the spring she plays softball instead of soccer. While Megan enjoys her soccer games she is very sensitive to the failure of her team and overcritical of herself when reevaluating the game. She expects an almost perfection like standard for herself in all areas of her life and some times is easily defeated if she does not meet her desired expectations. This seems to steam from her parents disciplinary system of, rewarding her successes, yet; they are very sympathetic and understanding of her failures also and do not scold her or punish her for them. Her parents are not over critical, or over bearing of her, they only have normal expectations for their children. My prediction is that she will resolve this over-criticalness with time; she is just not use to failure because she has not had to deal with it much in her short life span.According to Erikson’s theory of psychosocial crisis, Megan is progressing adequately toward the direction of industry. She strives very hard to accomplish goals and tasks that are assigned to her. When given a 25-piece puzzle she tediously works on it until it is completed. Megan often chooses to do cognitive things, such as: puzzles, coloring book pages, building blocks, and board or card games, in her spare time. Megan receives a lot of positive reinforcement from her parents when she successful completes a ta...
