ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews what happens to the child's tie to the mother as he gets onto his feet and becomes an active participant in family life and in the nursery or playgroup. It describes a time of life which is at least partly remembered and has been shown to have a lasting impact on later personality. The chapter focuses on an equally important but rather different developmental achievement in the second year of life: the beginnings of inner standards of competence and morality, which coincide in time with the child's ability to play his or her part, but within a social group. Definite differences were found between boys and girls in their relationships at home and at school. Boys were more involved with other children, initiating more peer-relationships. Children 'securely' attached in infancy were for example found at the age of 6 to portray their families in drawings more realistically than those previously 'insecurely' attached.
