stranger does something different to a child that they don’t recognize and don’t like, I feel that they will remember the incident and become more and more weary of strangers as more incidents happen. A strange story that comes into play with my life happened when I was a little older. I was about ten years old and home from school sick. At about ten o’clock in the morning my mom left to go to the grocery store and left me at the house. I was down the basement playing Nintendo when I heard heavy boots walking upstairs. Well I went up the stairs to investigate, as I peaked around the corner I discovered a man wearing all black with a ski mask on in my house. He spotted me at the same time, and we both ran for the door, him out the back and me out the side. I ran across the street to the neighbors who called the police. It didn’t have much effect on me, but it did make me weary of people wearing black ski masks, even to this day I hate seeing people wear them. Not necessarily stranger anxiety but I think it relates.Erickson also said “Toddlers learn to exercise will and do things for themselves, or they doubt their abilities.” (Myers D.G. 2000). I don’t agree with this statement very much, because children learning how to do things on their own is part of growing up. Being successful and failing, either way helps a child grow. When I was at this young age my mother said that I got bored and frustrated very easily. I feel that children get frustrated very easily with things they can’t figure out and that it is stressful to them. Failing, I don’t believe makes a child doubt their abilities one little bit. Their minds aren’t capable of realizing self-esteem issues and they forget about it in a minute or so.The next stage in Piaget’s theory is the preoperational stage. It applies to children between the ages of about 2 to 6 years. He said that children begin &#...
