FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cyberbullying, Age 13, Social Contract

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

The nature of the child: budding independence fosters growth. In contrast, parents who provide little or no encouragement to their children run the risk of instilling feelings of inferiority and helplessness in them. Freud on latency: latency freud"s term for middle childhood, during which children"s emotional drives and psychosexual needs are quiet (latent). Freud thought that sexual conflicts from earlier stages are only temporarily submerged, bursting forth again at puberty. In one sense, at least, freud was correct: sexual impulses are quiet; everywhere, boys and girls in middle childhood choose to be with others of their own sex. In addition, partly because children think concretely during middle childhood, materialism increases and appearances matter: attributes that adults might find superficial become important to children, which makes self- esteem more fragile and more dependent on externals. Culture and self-esteem: high self-esteem is neither universally valued nor universally criticized.