It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

[citation needed] Following her son's birth Karla trained to be a nurse moved to Karlsruhe and in 1905 married a Jewish pediatrician Theodor Homburger. Erikson places some emphasis on the teacher who should ensure that children do not feel inferior. The circumstances of his birth were concealed from him in his childhood.

Erik Erikson (15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. Erikson is a noted American sociologist.