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- a situation in which someone starts to behave like a child, especially because of mental weakness caused by old age: Her grandfather's in his second childhood and talks nonsense most of the time.
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Apr 13, 2021 · A second child, by contrast, is “placid, easy-going, friendly [and] cheerful”—unless they are “stubborn, rebellious, independent (or apparently so)” and “able to take a lot of ...
The meaning of SECOND CHILDHOOD is dotage. How to use second childhood in a sentence.
- First Childhood: Developing in A Distorted Mirror
- Stages of Psychosocial Development For Gifted People
- Stages of Gifted Childhood
- Stage of Gifted Adolescence
- Stages of Gifted Adulthood
- Your Own Second (Gifted) Childhood
After almost a decade of coaching and mentoring gifted adults, I can say that adult giftedness discovery often propels a person into what I call in coaching “a second childhood”. Their “first” (biological) childhood and its developmental stages - such as developing hope, autonomy, purpose, and trust in self - was navigated during a time and in a co...
Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development outline stages and the existential questions one faces in general growing up. There are manythings (including trauma, abuse, neglect, or other less noxious interruptions) which can curtail healthy development and “task completion” during these stages, and lack of accurate social mirroring or adequat...
Trust vs. Mistrust
In this early developmental stage, a gifted infant must develop trust in their (gifted) self, trust in their body, and trust in their carers. If they are developmentally faster, qualitatively different, or physically or emotionally needier than other infants, and if this is not recognized and/or responded to appropriately, children can develop, already at this stage, mistrust in themselves and their surroundings. Gifted people sometimes report (those with very early memories, which is not unc...
Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt
This stage is all about developing the ability to take care of our own basic (gifted) needs - “basic” being a key word here (we’re not talking about advanced developmental needs). Problems can arise when carers don’t understand a gifted child’s basic cognitive or physical needs, such as the need for advanced intellectual stimulation or reduced sensory stimulation (especially in the case of twice-exceptionality, as the high ability mixed with disability can be very confusing and disorienting f...
Initiative vs. Guilt
This stage is all about developing a feeling of one’s own sense of purpose in action - learning to direct one’s actions toward one’s own purposes. Whereas the existential question linked to the prior stage is “Is it ok to be me?”, the existential question linked to this stage is, “Is it ok for me to do, move, and act?”. As this relates to giftedness, the questions translate to: “Is it ok to be my gifted self?” and “Is it ok for me to do, move and act in ways that are consistent with and authe...
Identity vs. Role Confusion
Here we move to the next stage of independence from the family unit. Not only is the question “Can I make it in the world as my gifted self?” directed outward, but now the question is “Who am I? And who can I be?” as a social (gifted) person. To get to this stage, one must have been able to develop hope, will, purpose, and competence as their gifted self. Asking, “Who am I as a social gifted person, and who can I be in that regard?” without having adequate hope, will, purpose and competence l...
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Early adulthood is also focused outward, but in a different way. Here it becomes not only about defining one’s being and doing in relationship to others, but about the quality of interaction and levelof contribution, intimacy, and connection that one has with others. Obviously, if one has completed the previous stage of identity and role identification in a distorted way, the question to “Can I love (as my gifted self)?” will not result in a healthy “yes”. Love, when one is not able to be one...
Generativity vs. Stagnation
“Can I make my (gifted) life count?” becomes the next developmental question. For those gifted adults who haven’t known they were gifted till later in life, they may take a long time to answer this question, for it will take them time to understand who their “gifted self” really is. Of course, they’ve lived with that self all along, but not knowing who it was and why it was there, and often having shamed themselves for it, they may need time to come into safe and non-shaming contact with that...
Integrity vs. Despair
Often, by the time a person reaches this age, they are no longer in the “seeking” phase of their identity-development, and have usually learned to advocate for themselves on their own. Successful resolution of this stage is the development of wisdom, and as that relates to one’s gifted self, which usually translates to the question, “Is it ok to have been my gifted self?” or “Am I satisfied by how I expressed and experienced my giftedness?”. Since this stage often is taking place once a perso...
I hope this discussion has been helpful for you in understanding where you may have gotten blocked in your own (gifted) development and where you might now concentrate your efforts on validating and creating conditions for fulfilling those developmental tasks. You may now have some more clues for what kind, size and complexity of mirror you need fo...
SECOND CHILDHOOD definition: 1. a situation in which someone starts to behave like a child, especially because of mental…. Learn more.
Throughout Western history scholars and writers have characterized old age as a period of a second childhood and childish behavior. The second childhood stereotype has endured and finds expression ...
- Herbert C. Covey
- 1993
Feb 28, 2020 · The Second Child. Being the secondborn has its challenges. Posted February 28, 2020|Reviewed by Ekua Hagan. Four-year-old Michael sits wide-eyed on his father's shoulders, watching his...
Mar 10, 2023 · A second child is a major change in your life and will require adjustments. Seek out support from others and help from a mental health professional when necessary.
