In the beginning of every child's life they experience what most like to call milestones. At birth a baby knows no more than to cry when in need. Freud characterizes this stage in a babies life as the oral stage. A baby is " interested in oral gratification from sucking, eating, mouthing, and biting" ( Feldamn, 2006). As a parent I agree with Freud on the stage of development of children at birth. My daughter like to put everything in her mouth and now at two years old she still puts things in her mouth. Along with Frueds idea I can assume that learning to talk would fall under the oral stage. When my daughter was a few months old she began to make sounds, like all babies do. She would gurggle and squeal. When she would hear herself it made me look around as to find where the sound was coming from. I would mimick her sounds and she would repeat them back to me. I was trying to help her hear me and make the sound herself. She would succedd every time, but she figured out soon enough......
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