Overview of the seven stage model of child development and the seven character types that emerge from each stage:

• Existence (womb - 3 months): where a basic imprint of one's right to exist and sense of being alive is formed, from womb life, birth and early infancy.

• Need (1 month - 18 months): where the infant's experience of having core satisfaction of basic needs is established.

• Autonomy (8 months - 2 years, 6 months): The child begins to move out and explore the world through an explosion of psychomotor skills. An imprint of the child's impulses toward autonomy is formed.

• Will (2 - 4 years): The child's task at this age is of learning to focus, express and contain power in relationship and the world.

• Love/Sexuality (3 - 6 years): Where the child learns to love in a romantic way and learns to integrate heart and sexual feelings.

• Opinion Forming (5 - 8 years): The child learns to open up the world through thought, and learns to deal with rules, norms and culture.

• Solidarity/Performance (7 - 12 years): Where the child finds a place in culture by learning how to be a member of group and community; by exploring competitive and leveling impulses. Also a time of acquiring and mastering high level skills.
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