chapter one
CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE AGE
Just as the tides have their rhythms， so does human be-
havior have its own pre， dictable rhythms. As the child
grows older， \"good\" ages ， alternate with \"bad\"; times of
equilibrium alternate with times of disequilibrium; and
periods when behavior tend~ to be expansive and outgoing
alternate with periods when everything seems to be pulled
in.
It should come as no surprise， then， to the mother or
father of a rambunctious Two-and-a-half-year-old， that
sometime around the age of Three their son or daughter
does seem to calm down conspicuously. He says \"yes\" in-
stead of \"no\"; \"will\" instead of \"won t.\" He smiles instead
of frowns， laughs instead of cries， gives in comfortably
to your requests instead of resisting them.
Around thirty-three months of age， many children go
through a stage of reliving their babyhood， of thinking
about themselves in terms of their own past. The child
may pretend that he is a baby， even going back to the
glozqous ~cquisitlon of sFeech. So， ~ child may say， \"I m
//tt/e baby. I can t walk， [ have no teeth， I drink from a
bottle. But I can talk.\"
However， by Three， most have caught up with them-
selves chronologically and are now in a state of equi-
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