Parenthood Questions
Essay Grade
Each of Erickson's stage of social development fall on a continuum. For instance; Trust
on one end, mistrust on the other, although most people fall somewhere in between.
Apply Erikson's stages of life development to the following characters from Parenthood,
placing them on a scale from 1 to 10 on where you think they should fall in their specific
level. Explain your answer and give at least one scene from the movie to justify your
answer.
Then give an example of each parenting style: see below.
Each character would only be in one stage (or possibly overlapping two). Credit will
be given for thinking. Sorry no right answers SJs...
Gil's Father--Jason Robards who owns the old car.
Larry-- Gil's younger brother--Tim Hulce, who gambles and steals his dad's car.
Gil---- Steve Martin, Cowboy Gil
Gil’s Sister, Helen, Gary’s mother, who marries the biology teacher.
Patti Rick Moranis's little girl who they're trying to make the perfect child.
Gary The middle school boy with the brown bag, who is not the master of his domain.
Todd (Keaneau Reeves)
Kevin-- Steve Martin's middle son, who is in therapy.
Give one example each of the following parenting styles and the expected outcomes for
each....
Authoritarian
Authoritative
Permissive
Rejecting/neglecting
1-----------------------------10
Trust
Autonomy (child
tries to become a
separate
indidvidual)
Initiative (child
tries to take
control of
environment)
Mistrust
Shame
Guilt
Industry (Child
wants to do more
and better things-be industrious)
Inferiority
Identity
Identity
confusion
Generativitiy
(need to
contribute
something to the
world)
Stagnation
Ego Integrity
(person looks
back to past and
feels a sense of
accomplishment
Ego Dispair
Give one example each of the following parenting styles and the expected outcomes for
each....
Authoritarian
Authoritative
Permissive
Rejecting/neglecting