Publications Read about book, articles, and commentaries These publications, books and commentaries – a world of research and different lives. The self-concept grows and develops as kids interact with new environments. Doesn’t matter where you are living. South Africa, the Caribbean, China, being in a family as a single mom or a grandparent doing all the caring or the typical family with father, mother, aunty etc. etc. that’s where the feelings about self develop. All these works talks about self-confidence, self-actualization, social capital, all those great tings in our lives.