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Industry vs Inferiority Middle Childhood ages 6-10. Critical Tasks. Children’s initiative changes into something focused: a sense of industry Master skills such as: Reading/writing Social interactions Chores Find acceptable hero images Taking care and control themselves. Cont’d.
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Industry vs Inferiority Middle Childhood ages 6-10
Critical Tasks • Children’s initiative changes into something focused: a sense of industry • Master skills such as: • Reading/writing • Social interactions • Chores • Find acceptable hero images • Taking care and control themselves
Cont’d • Developing a conscience • Get along well with peers and have a comparatively calm existence
How the critical task is completed • Children need to be given the opportunity to accomplish successes • Recognized as successful individuals
Consequences of Successful Completion • Will enter adolescence with assurance and confidence • Know they are important • Good work attitudes & habits in adulthood
Consequences of Unsuccessful Completion • Difficulty developing relationships with peers • Will insist on being dependent children at home • Poor role models=stifle the individualization of child • Learn to depend on rules set by others • Won’t develop their own internal controls • Enter adolescence feeling inferior and incompetent
Breakfast Club-Brian (Brain) • Parents do not encourage him to go out and be a teenager • Difficulty developing relationships with peers • Depends on rules set by others • Feels inferior and incompetent
Techniques • Don’t blame parents or society for the way the child acts • Don’t generalize • Don’t lecture parents )explain how the activity can be taken (read by child) • Speak confident & with understanding • Explain to parents what is wrong & support what they are doing well
Cont’d • Give recognition and esteem • Give child tasks which they can be successful at • Praise the accomplishments • Show how to turn failures into challenges • Discuss ways to develop positive, healthy relationships • Find programs and resources to the child can participate
By: Samantha Kiefer Mike Miller Dale Baney