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Well Stuart just went inside to get God knows what, so I'll start off by announcing that I am Milton the Loch Ness Monster, and in fact, NOT wearing pants. Lucky you. Nevertheless, the journey must continue. Let's begin with Stuart's primary years as a human. |
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Finally, at around age 3 or 4, little Stuart begins to grow into Stuart the Boy. His two younger brothers, Evan and Spencer, are starting to have more of an effect on him. As the need to interact successfully with them grows more apparent, Stuart was forced to stop his whining and start being nice. This also carried over to his pre-school time. Kohlberg would suggest that he had moved into a stage in which most motives were pro-social. In fitting this social drive, Stuart became very interested in the activities of his mother. Such curiosity can be explained through Freud's phallic stage, in which an oedipal complex becomes evident, and the boy is fascinated by the parent of the opposite sex. I don't quite know if Stuart was "fascinated" by his mother, but what I do know, is that he had a toy kitchen, and I will say no more. | |
So
there he is as a little guy, apparently sucking on the nubs you
humans like to call thumbs. I guess it must have paid off though,
because I'm pretty sure he's not a raging alcoholic. By fulfilling
himself in his oral stage, according to Freud's psychosexual
stages, Stuart was able to avoid any oral fixations later in life.
Nonetheless he is still pretty sarcastic, so sometimes I just have to put
him in his place with
an equally cutting remark. Sure, he may 
cry himself to sleep that
night, but I enjoy it, so it's alright. Also, such attachment with
his mother could have
provided the sense of security that led to Stuart's, well, "assertive"
personality as a toddler (see below), and later in life. Which might
explain why even after a snide remark by myself, he is still able to
pull himself together in time for the nightly showing of Golden
Girls on the Lifetime Network. He loves his Golden
Girls. Notice how he is also reaching for the bear, which is
part of Piaget's Sensory-motor phase. Also look at how Stuart
is not sleeping in any of his photos. His temperament was apparently
pretty high, for he would always become riled up at the slightest of
interruptions. 
Ah yes, the toddler years... Stuart definitely took full advantage of
his new found autonomy, while not feelin
g
a whole lot of shame in exploiting this independence,
as Erickson would infer (Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt).
In other words, he was nuts. As can be seen on the right, where the
little bugger
is seemingly moving a sprinkler to a more unpractical location, for
example, on the bottom of a pool,
he had
his own agenda. I once heard that his parents would go to restaurants
just to let him loose, and he wouldn't
stop running for three hours. However, they were right in giving him
independence in such areas as sprinkler moving, for as Kohlberg would
insist, the key to raising a moral child is to limit only those actions
that are immoral. His parents did not force obedience to fixed rules
that hampered initiative, only those that deterred violence and
emotional harm. Thus, Stuart grew into a fine, upstanding young man,
with enough security to undertake new
and foreign projects. 
