Middle Childhood Observation

Berger, K. (2011). The Developing Person Through the Life Span (8th ed., p. 241,265,279). New York: Worth.

The child develops a sense of pride and competence in new skills they learn (Huffman, Younger, & Vanston, 2010). For example, this accomplished by being confident that they score a goal when they play soccer, spelling a word correctly or putting shape blocks in the correct place. A sense of pride may be felt when they contribute to society (Huffman, Younger, & Vanston, 2010). Opening a door for others, fundraising by selling chocolate bars, volunteering in the community are some examples of how the child can feel this pride. The

For the first day of observations I begin with observing Faiths Physical domain. The Physical domain of a school age child is the physiological changes that happen in the body, such as puberty. This includes sensory-motor and nervous system development. (Thibodeaux, 2017) The average school age child’s height is about 3 and a half feet tall and weighs between forty and fifty pounds. (Kathleen Berger, 2015, p. 242) The most prevented disease of young children is tooth decay, by the age of six the average school age child has at least one cavity. (Kathleen Berger, 2015, p. 244) Most children by the age of six can catch a ball, write and say their ABC’s in sequence and name objects. At this stage the child’s motor skills are beginning to be more refined and children are often introduced into sporting activities. A typical school age child will have coordination of large and small muscles, hand-eye coordination. Can write and draw with greater

Alexander, Enrique, and Alexis are the names of the children I observed. They have different gross motor skills and fine motor skills. However, their differences are in the sophistication of each ability. Alexander, who is 7 years old is very active. He was jumping and trying to count by jumping on the tile floors to see how many there were across the living room. He is developing typically to his age. What has influenced this level of physical development is the amount of myelin in the brain increases and raises the speed at which electrical impulses travel between neuron. Which, makes massages reach muscles more rapidly and control them better. Enrique, in the other hand, his physical development is more sophisticated than Alexander’s.

I looked around and suddenly realized that I was surrounded by children. Watching the children's eyes full of expectations, body slightly sweat, and breathing heavily, I can not imagine a few years ago how annoying they are.

Life is so busy these days that sometimes we don’t stop to think how we got to this point or realize some of those key factors that played a role. I think it is fair to say that most people take a lot of things for granted but when you pause and analyze life’s events it can be an eye opener and really get you thinking about how certain career decisions have created a pathway for your career and at life-space. Gets a little scary when you think back on how one or two decisions could have really swayed your career. I think we can all think back to an event in our adult development

At 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, I had a chance to conduct an interview with Dr. Isabella Jenkins. Dr. Isabella Jenkins is a Professor, Curriculum and Instruction at Education Department at Clark Atlanta University. She has been enrolled to many different schools around the U.S., so she has enough experiences to tell us about the U.S. schools earlier and today.

Forty Five! Forty Six! Forty Seven! Those numbers were the highlight of my family reunion. It was all because of my cousin Steve. The whole family would stand around him counting how many pushups he could do after drinking 5 or more cans of beer, it was like basketball season you were anticipating it. He drank beer everyday not just one can, but more than the amount of fingers on both hands. Steve could drink alcohol until he was blue, but still manage to accomplish so many things. For example, he maintains a morning exercise routine, teaches Karate, and learns to cook like a true chef. Steve impresses me with everything that he does eventhough he drinks excessively.

The park is welcoming, sprawling, open, and not especially crowded in the bright but gray midday sunlight. It is on a suburban street so there isn’t much noise pollution beyond the cars on the moderately busy street on one side. The horizon is hidden by tall trees and 70’s style houses in every direction. It is overcast, cool, windy but only slightly. The air smells as though it might rain this evening.

As a child grows older physical and cognitive developments

It’s 6:05 A.M. I woke up five minutes ago. One lengthy minute has passed. I start to scream.

As a child, I would wake up in the morning before my older brother went to school. Together we would walk down the street to a neighbor’s house and have breakfast with the three boys and their mom, Jackie. As I got older, I started walking to breakfast on my own but my mother would wake up very concerned on where I was at 6 a.m. We soon got a magnet to put on the fridge and when I left to Jackie’s, I was instructed to put the magnet on one side of the fridge so my mom would know. I grew up with the two younger boys, Kyle and Jacob, and my brother grew up with the oldest one, Larry. We were very adventurous kids, running through the woods, on bikes, running around bare foot, I even stepped on a few rusty nails in my childhood.

To begin with, as I observe Kaite during dinner time, it is evident that she has developed a fixation from the oral stage; overeating. The oral stage of a child’s life is critical to the development of habits forming in the child’s future. The primary focus during the oral stage is the mouth and breast feeding. If a child weans from their mother’s breast too early, they will development a fixation later in life. Unfortunately, Kaite was weaned too early from her mother’s breast which resulted in a fixation of being too dependent of having in anything in her mouth- in this case, food. Her habit of overeating is also a result of her evil inner self (her id) overruling her nice inner self (her superego).

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

At what point in your childhood did you realize that life wasn’t always gonna be all ups and no downs? This event can be caused by a trauma, a lesson taught by a teacher or even through self reflection. For me I can pinpoint the exact date this happened for me. April 11, 2015, this was the day that my dog unexpectedly passed away. I realized throughout those short moments before he left us that life doesn’t go by a script. You’re future isn’t set in stone to your liking. Only your past is, your future is still being molded by the decisions you make during the present.