The middle child/children is/are speculated to develop these following personality traits: low self-esteem, peacekeeping abilities, independence, as the parents cannot afford to spend a lot of time with the middle child. The youngest child is normally a follower, laid-back, rebellious and liberal. ... This birth order theory also applies to my sister, who is the last born child of the family. ... Erikson's theory consists of 8 stages: the first takes place in the first stage of life, the second, between the ages of 1 to 3, the third, between 3 to 6, the fourth, 6 to 12, the fifth, during ...

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In 1933 he came to the U.S. and became Boston's first child analyst and obtained a position at the Harvard Medical School. ... He studied combat crises in troubled American soldiers in World War II, child-rearing practices among the Sioux in South Dakota and the Yurok along the Pacific Coast, the play of disturbed and normal children, the conversations of troubled adolescent suffering identity crises, and social behavior in India. ... Going beyond the of a child's early life, Erikson concentrated on broader issues of peer culture, school environment, and cultural values and ideal...

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