Is the Home Supporting Our Uniqueness and Independence?

A child a moves into this conformity stage, and that's very, actually completely appropriate. Then as the child grows up and they start looking around, they leave the family system for all their validation. Oftentimes they are looking for validation from their peers and from other larger systems. They look to authority figures to get a reinforcement for their behaviors. And the better their behaviour, the more the behaviour is reinforced,. The more they bond to the authority figure, and and on and on it goes. It's possible for some one to become fixated in stage two conformity, where their growth is actually stifled because they become so over committed to pleasing authority figures. Or conversely, they may