David Elkind

And then another book is The Hurried Child Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon.

This is by David Elkind, and he wrote this many years ago.

He was a psychologist in the time of Dr. Raymond Moore and Dorothy Moore, and he especially focused on early childhood.

And so this book goes into childhood.

And so let's crack into some of this stuff, you guys.

I'm going to skip a few points because random things like David Elkind starts the book off saying premarital sex is up in the 80s versus the boomer generation in the 60s.

Classic stuff like kids in divorcee households often feel subconsciously responsible.

This causes them to grow up fast and be stressed.

Again, the shame doubt, right? David Elkind talks about Eric Erickson's stages a lot, and apparently in the Harvard course taught by this gentleman, the first two years of life is about gaining trust for the infant.

All an infant is concerned with is constructing a world of permanency, permanent objects, you know? Young infants, they have no idea that objects continue to exist when they can't see them there or if they can't feel something or taste something or smell something.

They have no idea the object continues to stay.

You cannot just tell an infant, hey, when the coin leaves my hand, the coin still exists.

One more on this, because people always say it's a teenage thing, feeling like everyone's watching you.

There's a name for it from 1967, David Elkind, The Imaginary Audience.

The story was that it peaks in the early teens and fades.

When people tested it, it didn't fade on time.