Egocentrism

When I read in chapter nine about the characteristic of preoperational egocentrism I thought about a time when I was younger and laughed to myself. According to Berger (2008), egocentrism is when the child has a tendency to think about the world entirely from their own perspective. As I have mentioned previously I am the only boy living with four sisters; however, my one sister was "suppose" to be a boy. My parents were under the assumption that they were having a baby boy and were going to name him "Sam." However, when they brought our new sibling home from the hospital and they said "Its a girl" I did not want to believe them. I had been so excited to have a brother and was very upset to find out she was in fact another sister. Well I would not believe this and I continued to call her Sam. I told everyone she was my brother and said how I was excited to have a brother to finally play with. My parents tried to keep explaining to me that she was a girl and her name is Meghan. Eventually I gave up that act; however, I was very egocentric in what I wanted and what I believed to be the truth.

Berger, S. K. (2008). The Developing Person: Through the Life Span. New York, NY: Worth Publisher.