Developing a Healthy Personality in 10 Easy Lessons
1. Babies are different
Activity level
Temperament
Timing
Intensity
Frequency differs
2. Babies need prompt attention to satisfy needs; to reinforce pleasant feelings; to
get calm!
3. Babies have to trust, develop ego identity
Sum of Childhood – basic drives plus endowment and opportunity
4. Babies need praise to try new schemes
5. Babies adapt
6. Babied take in their world through ________________ of external stimuli
7. Babies change themselves to use what they take in
8. Babies are person who communicate
Receptors in their skin
Skin hunger
Noises – words
9. Babies have feelings – THINK – FEEL
Crucial related representation imagery
10. Babies develop along a continuum
Play as intellectual activity
Rehearsal for reality
Self and world confused
