Childhood Observation

I will be observing a seven-year-old child for my project. What I have learned from being a parent and watching my kids as they grow up the social emotional, physical and intellectual changes that occur in children between birth and the end of adolescence are that they all progress at individual intervals from dependency to increasing individualism. Because these developmental changes may be strongly influenced by genetic factors and events during prenatal life, genetics and prenatal development are usually included as part of the built in parenting skills we all possess. When children are born they have no sense of fear but quickly develop a fear of what

Child A, is sitting in his chair drawing a picture in his journal. He looks up at stares at the child across from him at his table for almost a minute.

The sun is out. It is a gorgeous spring day in the desert. There are sounds of children laughing at the swing set, and dogs lapping at water nearby. The smell of the burgers on the grill makes my mouth water as I approach the park bench. I set down the neatly wrapped gift that will soon be torn apart by an eager child. I approach the group of friends laughing as I am greeted with a warm hug. For my observation, I attended a one-year-old birthday party on Saturday, April 23rd from 10 am to 1 pm at Luckie Park. I observed several people at different life stages that I will discuss. Infancy stage was represented through Liam at three months, and Johnny at one year. Lilian, seven years old, is in the childhood stage. I observed Erin as the young

The student I chose for this case study is a young boy, who I will call Jessie. He was observed in a classroom at an Early Childhood Learning Center. Jessie is a 3.6-year-old boy. He is the only child on his maternal side. Jessie has black curly hair, brown eyes and he seems to be the average height for his age range. He loves going to the park, having books read to him and watching his favorite television program Bubble Guppies. Mary states her son is a loving boy that loves hugs and good praise when he does something good. According to Mary, he has an older sister and brother on the father’s side. Furthermore, she recalled Jessie’s dad telling her his daughter is developmentally

Description of child's actions: J.S. was in the outside environment standing in front of a sensory table that was placed by the door that leads to the lobby. The table contained blue-colored water, plastic sea creatures, and cups. J.S. was squeezing a fish plastic toy. She let go of it and turned around. She walked towards teacher#2 and tapped her shoulder (teacher#2 was crouching on the floor talking to teacher#3) and asked, “Where is Boy#3?” Teacher#2 asked teacher#3 to help J.S. find Boy#3. Then, teacher#3 told J.S., “You want to find him? You have to wash your hands.” J.S. walked to the sink next to the door that leads to the lobby and stood directly in front. She leaned forward against the sink, pressed the soap with her right hand on her left hand, grasped the handle with her right hand, and turned the faucet open. Then, she rubbed the soap in her hands and placed them under the water. She turned the faucet off with her right hand and started to shake her hands up to her sides in an up and down motion. She pulled out a piece of paper towel and dried her hands. Then, she walked to the trash can and tossed the paper towel. J.S. walked back and stood next to teacher #3.

“Make me a teddy bear pillow!” pleads Cesar, as I take out materials for our craft project. It is another Tuesday where I spend my time volunteering at Blythedale Children’s Hospital providing companionship to the patients of the facility, and in return I receive a smile and thank you. Given that I have been to this children’s hospital numerous times before, I always notice new faces. Each time I am there I form an unforgettable connection with a child. After volunteering for almost two and a half years at this facility, I came to realize how fortunate I am to be healthy. Many children, both near and far from home, when admitted into the hospital, often are unable to have their families stay with them overnight. These children are away from the familiarity of their own homes, living in a hospital and just desire to feel a little of the comforts of home.

I think my expectation for this activity was what actually happened because I know my children and we have done this type of project before. I know some would struggle, but most would do well with it as always. I asked myself if I bought the younger children thicker string would this help them hold the items on the string better. Their hands are small and the string in thin. I also asked myself if there was some type of device that could hold the string for the 2 year olds as they put the items on the string. I think this would help them a lot.

In my interview interaction with Amanda she seem to be calm with her surroundings and family, giving the answer to the questions asked in the best way she understood and her younger sister Janet was so nervous which indicate that they are more things going on that is preventing her from speaking up. Although, she indicated that her sister Amanda always get into trouble, as the older child she experience most of the physical discipline often and this can be overwhelming for a child at this age.

When I first decided to attend school for child education I was pregnant with my first son, I at first wanted to understand more about children purely to have a solid base to better raise him. I had always loved kids and been around them whether it was in church settings, babysitting family, or working in a daycare. When I started attending classes I realized how I had my own way of relating to children that came from within, and I had a way that I was taught from observing peers and other adults interacting with youth. It seemed as though a lot of what I was taught by observation was just done to be done. We had no rhyme or reason, keep the children safe, keep them fed and warm, sing songs (they really enjoyed this), read them a story if they

I did my observation on Todd who is a family-friend of mine. He is 62, married with children, employed, Caucasian, and very busy. A notable difference from what was predicted was that at Todd’s age, he should be cutting back on his hours and preparing for retirement. Todd has retired from one job but now he is starting a new one that is full time and he frequently works overtime. This is unusual to start a whole new career at this age. He is taking a big chance with this decision when people around his age are normally settled in their job and looking to take their jobs till retirement. Another change that was really unexpected was that his sleep has actually improved recently. People at this age usually have disrupted sleep and develop sleep disorders. He did say that the improvement in sleep was from his skin cancer surgeries so, having that worry gone led to the improvements. He could have been sleeping horribly before the surgery and now he could still have sleeping issues but, he does not think about that because he is sleeping better

As with physical and cognitive development, I was able to observe that she is attaining the social developmental milestones as she progresses from the womb through the elementary school age. While the mother was pregnant with her, she stayed away from drugs, alcohol, and other items that appear to increase the chances or cause social or personality problems developmentally. By doing this, the result was as expected; she hit all of the important points through in infancy and toddlerhood. She was a child who needed and wanted to be with her mother and would cry or search for her as soon as she left her sight. By achieving both of these, she was able to understand that she could trust people, which allowed her to make the transition from toddlerhood

i. The child knows all the numbers up to ten and can sometimes say the number 11 and 12. She does classify things into groups whether that be farm animals, or what kind of things need to be recycled in plastic, paper and aluminum bins. She does plan somethings when she plays or draws, but most of the time she just jumps right into it. Thought she did take the time to plan her little kittens house before she started playing with them. Her attention span is avenged she does listen to the teacher when she is talking, but at some time she does get distracted by others around her and will start looking at them.

For my signature assignments in ePortfolio I chose to upload Observation 1 and essay about child care center. Both assignments were fascinated me a lot and have a chance to spend excellence time with the kids. These assignments absolutely help me to understand the different developmental stages of Children. Which helped me to learn more clear about the brain and cognitive development in the child. I am also implementing some of the learning with my 17 months’ child. As a casework in profession, I do reinforce refugee clients about different stages in child development. When I see any issue (Cognitive or physical) with the child, I immediately make a referral in appropriate resource.

Of the many theorists that have had the opportunity to make immense contributions to the human race regarding behavioral sciences, theorist Erick Erickson and Abraham Maslow are the two that I believe set the framework of understanding my adult stages of life. According to Feldman (2014), Erik Erickson’s intimacy vs. isolation stage commences from age 18 through forty. During this stage of development, individuals actively are seeking to be intimately involved with others. Adults are attempting to explore and develop relationships that have the potential to be life-long. When a person is successful at this stage of development, he or she has developed happy relationships, and a sense of security and commitment essentially has acquired love

The other location we visited was the Great Expectations Day Care, also In Southbury. Jackie did her presentation with the first group since they were small kids and Olga needed older kids for her lesson plan. We all help Jackie to prepare, the activity while she was addressing the students. The kids had a good time and they learned that they have 20 teeth, need to brush two times a day, and brush their teeth in circular motion. Then it was the turn for Olga to do her lesson plan. She brought her laptop, and made a PowerPoint presentation with the characters of Spoon Bob. During her presentation, she discussed the difference between healthy and unhealthy food, brushing and flossing. She gave every students the opportunity to go up to