CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Functionally, the Child ego-state is comprised of 2 aspects: The Natural (Free) Child that is spontaneous, intuitive, creative, pleasure seeker and the Adapted Child that is compliant and conforms to wishes and demands of others, particularly parents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ego States are consistent patterns of feeling, thinking and behaviour that we all possess. Transactional Analysis identifies three Ego States, called Parent, Adult, and Child. This is not about actual parents, adults and children, but about different ways of experiencing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Underneath, label the five ego states – adapted child, free child, adult, controlling parent and nurturing parent.

Detailed explanation-4: -Child ego state-contains all natural feelings, needs, impulses, and potentialities of an infant. It also contains creative, manipulative, intuitive capacities as well as feelings and behaviours learnt during childhood like compliance, procrastination, anger etc.