Your Children and Cheating

When you work in the corporate world you become aware of the unethical, the unscrupulous, and those who will do or say anything to get ahead. Sometimes you are even lucky enough to become aware of them before they climb over you with stiletto heels or meticulously polished Italian leather loafers.

Generate or Stagnate

image courtesy of Little Dandelion Queen

Our younger daughter is in her junior year of Honors Psychology, double majoring in cognitive behavior and child development with a minor in human organizational development.

We had an interesting conversation recently when she said she thought of us when she started studying the work of Erik Erikson. He was a well-known child psychoanalyst who focused on the study of identity.

When she started reading about the Middle Adulthood (40-65) stage, she thought of her dad and me. When she read about Generative vs Stagnation conflicts at that stage of life, she was so glad that we were not only generative, but that we would both be in the Ego Integrity category at the end of our lives. Read about it here.