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Cybernetics, Script and Dealing with Script

Cybernetics and Script Infants and children have these basic needs: Warmth, touch, nurture, affection, care, attention and acceptance. Growing children are driven by curiosity, inquisitiveness, activity, learning, knowing and display for attention seeking and appreciation. Teenagers seek association, sharing, cross-sex socialisation, role modelling, growing to adulthood and supported freedom. Adults seek respect, regard, recognition, appreciation, attention, acceptance, authority, freedom and independence.  Dealing with  reality and reality situations (click:  Terms, Concepts and Ideas  for details) is an ongoing engagement for all of us. All of us face surprise when we are ordered, questioned, evaluated, appraised or / and labelled. This is all the more true for children. They feel 'bad' many times a day by being subjected to this process. It generates conditioning. The growing child inadvertently generates 'safe play areas'. The relationship of infants wit...