At this point in my life, I was already starting my early school years. I had my nursery and kindergarten at St. Matthew’s Academy, which is a private, co-ed school and my preparatory year at St. Scholastica which is a private exclusive school for girls. I remember during my kindergarten year, my classmates and I already had a sense of malice in us. We often teased our boy and girl classmates and pretend like we are conducting a wedding for them. I knew I had a crush on the “groom” but I went ahead with the flow thinking that I don’t want to mess things up between the “couple” in our class. I think this behavior of mine falls under Erikson’s developmental task of early moral development and group play. And it feels quite rewarding on my part that even at that young age, I already had some sense of values. I do believe that I carried this with me until my teen years and beyond, because if not, I would have been impregnated long before or at least lost my virginity to my ex-boyfriend back in high school. And even now that I have my long standing boyfriend, had I not developed my morality during those formative years, I would have been in a much different place right now.
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