According to Erik Erikson, he believed that personality developed in several stages. The theory describes the challenges that the person goes through during their social experience, it addresses both stability and change in personality. Erik also believed that a sense of competence motivates behaviors and actions. Each stage aims to become more competent in a certain area of ​​life from childhood and to become important in adolescence. At each stage it describes a conflict that the person must now deal with if they fail or are able to develop that quality. Erik Erikson was born on June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt. Germany. His parents divorced before he was born, but later his mother married a doctor, Dr. Theodor Homberger, but the problem was that his mother never told him that Homberger was his biological father, which caused confusion in his life, which was the key for him. an interest in identity formation. Interest in identity developed based on his school experience. Later he obtained a certificate from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society where he studied psychoanalysis. He began working at a school established by Dorothy Burlingham where he met Joan Serson and later married and had 3 children. In 1933, Erik moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and they offered him a job at Harvard Medical School as its first child analyst. He also held positions at numerous institutions including Yale, Berkley, and the Menninger Foundation. He changed his name to Erik H. Erikson and published a number of books on his theories and research and won a Pulitzer Prize and a US National Book Award. The stages of psychosocial development were described from Erik's perspective, according to which the stages are related to ag... middle of paper ... the child will have bad behaviors even if he is a good child, and nor can the parent force the child to share things, especially when he or she is in adolescence. Additionally, if you want your child to have good manners and be very respectful, you need to guide them by showing them what they look like. The child behavior stage is what trains us to be better, to know more about life and to be ready for anything. Works CitedCherry, K. (nd). Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinkers/p/bio_erikson.htmhthttp://psychology.about.com/od/psychosocialtheories/a/psychosocial.htmtp://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/ psych101/development/section1.rhtml http://psychology.about.com/od/psychosocialtheories/a/psychosocial.htm http://www.support4change.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=108http: //webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyerikson.html