Week 5 T2P

After learning about Erikson's ideas of emotional development, children who are given the opportunity to make their own decisions acquire confidence and life skills with these experiences. A child who is allowed to take healthy risks during their adolescence and is positively reinforced for their choices have a tendency to be intrinsically motivated and also to continue to follow their own decision making process even if they have an identity crisis along the way because they are developing emotionally, as well socially, and are able and willing to make their own choices.  By encouraging an adolescent who decides to try something new, like trying out for the soccer team when they've never kicked a ball in their life, will give them the opportunity to explore a new social setting where they will have to explore and navigate a new space allowing for them to develop new intimate relationships and networks.  If they enjoy soccer they will be intrinsically motivated to practice and do everything it takes to improve their soccer game whereas if an adolescent is forced to play soccer they might rebel because they are at an age where their brain is changing and pruning away old experiences to make room for new ones and in this  process there is more attention placed on their own decision making (eg risk-taking) than decisions made for them by people like their parents or teachers.