Dr. Shafto's When Should You Teach Children

The practitioner in an early years setting supporting children’s play learning and development is extremely important, as play helps stimulate the child’s brain, supports their needs on an educational level, as well as helping them with social difficulties such as building relationships, developing them and helping them gain confidence. Many people believe that a child learns best when they are motivated, such as Fredrich Froebel. He believed that children benefitted from all types of play. The McMillan sisters believed that outdoor play was extra important as they studied children who played and slept outside and discovered that they were the happier and healthier children in comparison to those who only played inside.

The “Toy Paper” is a research paper requirement for Child Development which we complete an in-depth analysis of the usefulness of a specific toy of our choice. The toy itself will be evaluated by three various stages in relation to cognitive, developmental, social and cultural perspective. The toy I have chosen for my topic to write about is the “Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Puppy” which is a toy designed by Fisher Price for children ranging in age 6 to 36 months it contains 50+ sing along songs, tunes and phrases. It has 7 activations modes which respond to a child’s touch including a light up red heart. It assists in developing a child’s sensory and fine motor skills. The stages of development vary with each child this toy allows a parent to program it according to the

Difficulties. The development of the whole child. It reflects an understanding that children learn through active engagement and play,

An explanation of the impact of current research into development and learning of babies and young children.

Children of pre-school age through to adolescence are at the stage were parents begin teaching them

An individual can always learn new aspects of life when they are observing an infant. This observation took place in the home of the participant. The participant is familiar with the house. During the observation the child played with her toys in the living room. The participant was a 12-month-old girl who is cared for by both her mother and father. Other participant included the child's mother and the child's aunt. The mother is a teacher, so during this observation and in the summer, they both stay at home. The participant is the only child in the household. After an afternoon nap and snack, the child sat in her mother's lap on the couch in the living room. While she was with her mother, she stayed close to her mother and made eye contact with everyone in the room. The child then got down and played with her toys in the floor of the living room. She began with the toy closest to her and began pushing the buttons while singing along with the different rhythms. The next toy she found was a child's magazine and she quickly flipped through the pages and found pictures of other infants similar to her. After a quick look around the room, she proceeded to crawl over to the nearest shelf in the living room. She began to pull her self up to a standing position and began pulling items off of the shelf and putting them on the floor. The mother quickly diverted her attention by

“The child soon learns not to ask questions—the teacher isn’t there to satisfy his curiosity.”

19. The text points out a common misconception about the term “controlled experiment”. In the

G. Stanley Hall was another great contributor to the advancements in the child rearing reformation. In 1880, Hall conducted a set of experiments on 400 Boston school children. Results of his study showed that children have minimal basic knowledge like being able to identify body parts. In 1904, Hall wrote a book stating that children were growing up too fast and needed to be in environments away from adult temptation. He advocated for more child-like environments such as schools catering to the student’s ages like kindergarten, middle school and high school. He also indicated that extracurricular activities such sports were a great thing for children.

This study is performed on 2.5 year olds, and tests their ability to use their knowledge of the

Everything, it seems, is pragmatically designed to perfectly suit its task. In the following days, they are shown the nursery, concert hall, gardens, cafeterias, dairies, and schools. They see the children raised in communal nurseries and schools. They live largely independently from their parents and learn equally independently. As Frazier puts it, “Our children aren’t neglected, but they’re seldom, if ever, taught anything.” That is, in school. Outside the nursery they are trained with exercises in patience and jealousy so as to combat these feelings. The “behavioral engineering” is simple and even tame by modern standards. Some kids are forced to wait five minutes before eating, given toys that take progressively more work to use, and told not to eat lollipops hung around their neck. Furthermore, all this training is completed by age six.

Throughout this course I have learned many things about research at an introductory level. Research is a critical part of all of our lives in many ways. God blesses each of us with a degree of common sense and we all learn from observing others even as babies, we learned behaviors and skills by observing our parents. Walking through experiences throughout life teach us a lot we need to know as well but sometimes we have to take a better approach when we need to learn about certain things. Many of us know that what works in some situations or with certain individuals doesn’t always work or is the safest option for another situation. Controlled and precisely organized study allows scientists to compare and examine contrasting methods and concepts, also helps them to discover various approaches and be able to learn from individual’s behaviors and experiences. I will act as the case study throughout this paper in order to observe what I have learned about.

Observe the details of the experiment with the 16-month old babies who are shown Cookie Monster and Big Bird. Explain the experiment’s design, including the question posed by the researchers and the conclusions they reach regarding children’s acquisition of

The favourable data reinforces the strong relationship between the stated variables and Evans reasons logically the benefits of these relationships. However, Evans uses a “theory triangulation” (Patton. 2002, p.562 & Babbie. 2011, p.122) by examining data from the perspective of those that believe children’s playtime is essential in gaining social skills. Patton (2002) suggests that this use of data analysis assists in less distortion and bias and aids in credibility and quality of the findings.

Erickson believed that children of this age also are learning important tasks through repetition. Young toddlers may repeat tasks dozens of times. The same toddlers are able to easily repeat the task days or weeks after the initial learning. Erikson theorized that children should be allowed to explore and learn on their own at their own pace. Too much influence and forcing young children to learn may weaken curiosity and lessen excitement of learning. “This stage can be summarized by saying that a preschooler with initiative expresses who they are, whereas a preschooler with guilt does not (Nursing Resource Admin, 2010, p. 2).”