lima beans with my dinner – yuck!
These examples could be referred to as behaviorism and conditioning or according to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, preconventional as I never enjoyed negative actions or emotions from either parent so to save face I remember trying very hard to do everything that was considered to be "good" to prevent any negativity towards myself. I am told that I was a very emotionally sensitive child and would get upset at even an angry look from either parent if I had misbehaved. Would Freud explain this as Nature or Nurture? Weekends were my favorite time because I had both parents home and we would spend the afternoons visiting the grandparents, Mom's parents on Saturday and Dad's on Sunday. Every Sunday we would have to wake up early for church. I would get dropped off at the nursery while my parents attended the church service. It didn't take long for me to understand that there can be different rules for different places. Not only did I have to share the toys with man
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