Responce to Prompt. September 16th

According to the Psychosexual development theory of Freud’s there are several stages a child travels through in their life.  The first stage is the Oral stage, from birth to 1 year.  Freud explains that in this stage that everything revolves around the infant’s mouth, meaning they get satisfaction when something is in their mouth.  If these oral needs are not always met with what the infant is wanting, like food, it can become very frustrating for them and they may suck on their thumbs or other objects.  This may happen especially when weaning them to something new.  But in the end the infant learns how to cope with things.  My advise to new parents is to try to easily wean the infant into something new like from the nipple or bottle to a sipper cup and other things.  But do not deny the child of the oral satisfaction because it is a huge part in the love the child feels and discovers for their parents.

Now in the next stage, the anal stage, Freud explains how potty training plays a big role in the self-control a child learns to have over their life.  This stage occurs at about the age a lot of parents starts to potty train their children, from ages 1 year to 3 years.  In this stage Freud talks about how the parent follows through with the strictness of potty training can affect the child immensely.  If being to strict can cause the child to be either defiant and rebellious which leads to be a slob and careless later on in life, or they become almost OCD with things.  On the other hand when the parent is not strict enough this may cause the child to not learn self-control very well at all.  So my advice here to parents is to not be too strict on the child when potty training, but also to not be too lenient or passive on it either.