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Emotional, Linguistic, And Social Development Essay

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Children are fascinatingly pure and ever changing. They learn as they go and are developing their morals and views of the world from their parents, peers, and the media. This process determines who the child will grow up to be and how they react to a crisis. By observing Jenna and her interactions with her parents and other children we can analyze her cognitive, emotional, linguistic, and social development in order to gauge her progression. Jenna is a very timid eleven-year-old who enjoys playing basketball, going to the ballet, and playing various games on her IPhone. She has one older brother who is seventeen. Jenna’s family is middle class with two loving parents and two children. Jenna is brown-eyed, blonde headed, right- handed, and has a very shy personality but is very kind to everyone she meets. I observed Jenna three times, two of which was with her mother at her mother’s work and once at a basketball camp. Physical Development: The average height/weight for her age group is 144 centimeters (four feet, eight inches) tall and 81.5 pounds (Average Height and Weight Chart- Babies to Teenagers, n.d.). Jenna is quite a bit under the average in both aspects, she is about four feet, five inches tall and weighs about 50 pounds (mother’s estimate). According to Janelle Stewart’s article, “9- to 11 year-olds: Ages and stages of youth development”, she should have a steady increase in muscle development, coordination and balance and should be very energetic (2013).

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