I watched episode 22, season four of Full House. In this episode, Michelle Tanner gets in a conflict with her uncle Jessie. The way she expresses herself fits Erikson’s third stage, Initiative vs. Guilt. The way uncle Jessie handles the situation is a missed opportunity in teaching Michelle a lesson about emotions. However Joey does a better job at using this as a teaching opportunity. In a PSY 335 lecture on March 28th, we learned about Erikson’s third stage: Initiative vs. Guilt. If a child has initiative, they are enthusiastic about new activities. But if a child has guilt, this prohibits them from taking initiative and lowers their self-esteem. In this stage the child is becoming increasingly self-aware and beginning to distinguish between themselves and other in a more complex way then before. They are also more psychologically aware. In this stage they begin making descriptive statements about themselves such as “I am nice” or “I am tall”. In this stage, the way parents deal with conflict is key. They should use emotional coaching, which entails monitoring and labelling emotions, as apposed to emotional dismissing, which means denying, ignoring or seeking to change emotions.…show more content… In the episode, Michelle Tanner, the youngest child, who is approximately four years old, gets in an argument with her uncle Jessie. She wants to play with him, but he wants alone time with his wife. Jessie tells Michelle to leave, but when she doesn’t listen, he picks Michelle up like an air plane and carries her out of the room. From outside of the room Michelle screams that she is mad, but Jessie ignores her. Michelle then goes to her father’s friend Joey and explains that she is very mad, and that she doesn’t know why Jessie doesn’t want to play with her because “she’s a fun girl”. Joey brings Michelle to Jessie's room and they talk about her
