Havighurst's developmental tasks during the life span Babyhood and early childhood

Havighurst's developmental tasks during the life span Babyhood and early childhood

Learning to take solid foods

Learning to walk

Learning to talk

Learning to control the elimination of body wastes

Learning sex differences and sexual modesty

Getting ready to read

Learning to distinguish right and wrong and beginning to develop a conscience

Late childhood

Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games

Building a wholesome attitude toward oneself as growing organism

Learning to get along with age-mates

Beginning to develop appropriate masculine or feminine social roles

Developing fundamental skills in reading, writing, and calculating

Developing concepts necessary for everyday living

Developing a conscience, a sense of morality, and a scale of values

Developing attitudes toward social groups and institution

Achieving personal independence

Adolescence

Achieving new and more mature relations with agemates of both sexes

Achieving a masculine or feminine social role

Accepting one's physique and using one's body effectively

Desiring, accepting, and achieving socially responsible behavior

Achieving emotional independence from parents and other adults

Preparing for an economic career

Preparing for marriage and family life

Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behavior - developing an ideology

Early adulthood

Getting started in an occupation

Selecting a mate

Learning to live with a marriage partner

Starting a family

Rearing children

Managing a home

Taking on civic responsibility

Finding a congenial social group

Middle age

Achieving adult civic and social responsibility

Assisting teenage children to become responsible and happy adults

Developing adult leisure-time activities

Relating oneself to one's spouse as a person

Accepting and adjusting to the physiological changes of middle age

Reaching and maintaining satisfactory performance in one's occupational career

Adjusting to aging parents

Old age

Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health

Adjusting to retirement and reduced income

Adjusting to death of spouse

Establishing an explicit affiliation with members of one's age group

Establishing satisfactory physical living arrangements

Adapting to social roles in a flexible way

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