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The Playing Adult Steps Sideward Into Another Reality; The Playing Child Advances Forward To New Stages Of Mastery.

If There Is Any Responsibility In The Cycle Of Life It Must Be That One Generation Owes To The Next That Strength By Which It Can Come To Face Ultimate Concerns In Its Own Way.

Adolescents Need Freedom To Choose, But Not So Much Freedom That They Cannot, In Fact, Make A Choice.

Hope Is Both The Earliest And The Most Indispensable Virtue Inherent In The State Of Being Alive. Others Have Called This Deepest Quality Confidence, And I Have Referred To Trust As The Earliest Positive Psychosocial Attitude, But If Life Is To Be Sustained Hope Must Remain, Even Where Confidence Is Wounded, Trust Impaired.

These Same Experiences Make Of The Sequence Of Life Cycles A Generational Cycle, Irrevocably Binding Each Generation To Those That Gave It Life And To Those For Whose Life It Is Responsible. Thus, Reconciling Lifelong Generativity And Stagnation Involves The Elder In A Review Of His Or Her Own Years Of Active Responsibility For Nurturing The Next Generations, And Also In An Integration Of Earlier-life Experiences Of Caring And Of Self-concern In Relation To Previous Generations.