Shawna's Effect On Child Development

I enjoyed learning about Piaget’s beliefs that infants are smart and active learners who adapt to experience. He theorizes there are four distinct periods of cognitive

I could sit here and share with the board a sad story of a young child whose single mother worked the graveyard shift every day of the week, just to provide for her four young children. I could also share how despondent that I felt growing up, and how my mother shopped for my clothes from thrift shops, how she would get excited when she found something named brand for us. But I won't do that, instead I would like to introduce you to a delightfully chaotic little girl named Audriana- Faith. On August 15, 2012 Audriana-Faith was born at 1:41 am, weighing in 6 pounds and 12 ounces. The day my daughter was born was a day embedded in my memory, but it was not the best day of my life. I know that's what you're supposed to say, but becoming a mother

Sixteen years ago, Skylar Blaize Pichey was born. She was born to a single mother, who got pregnant the first time she had sex. Her mom thought she loved this man, but soon came to realize he was no good when he hit her. She moved back in with her parents and was living with them during this time. Skylar was born 6lbs 6oz, just a little thing. Her mother’s only child, at the time and present day. Her mother fell in love at first sight. She was cared for by her mother and her grandparents, her father was occasionally around to see her, until her mother decided he would not be a part of their lives.

Lifespan development is a field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire life span. The purpose of field being that one can determine the average maturation levels both physically and mentally in humans being born today (Feldman, 2006). This paper will delve into the human development of a twenty-one year old fictional character named Sara Jones, in a way that is similar to people who are living today. Sara’s life will be explained and discussed from prenatal development through newborn and preschool up until middle childhood and adolescence. Although she is a fictional character her stages of development will be presented in a way that is probable for a young

From the moment they married, Donna Hughes’s parents were intent on having a family to call their own. Her mother was left with just one sibling after her family was decimated by a viral case of pneumonia during an especially hard winter, and her father had never known his family. Donna was born in the early morning hours on March 6th, 1949 in the Canadian town of Edmonton. She was not even ten minutes old when the nurse snapped a picture of her parents and two older brothers already doting on her. Donna had known from an extremely early age that her family loved her and would always love her. Being both the youngest child and the only daughter, Donna received an exceptional amount of attention from both her parents and her brothers. In her

According to Piaget (1929, 1954, 1963), the process of adaptation helps us to understand how a child constructs his/her world. Taking Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development with particular focus on the Sensori-Motor stage of development, I am going to discuss how understanding this stage might influence me when working with a baby as a nursing student in the future.

Piaget believe that children are active thinkers. He recognized that the mind develops through a series of irreversible stages. He also acknowledged that a child’s maturing brain builds schemas that are constantly assimilating and accommodating to the world around them. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is split into four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The sensorimotor stage occurs from birth to nearly two years of age. At this stage, infants learn about the world around them by sensing it and interacting within it. It is also in this stage that the idea of object permanence develops, that is, the awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not being observed. In my personal life, I am certain that in this stage of development I would have enjoyed peek-a-boo, because if I didn’t see it, to my developing mind, it wasn’t there at all. The second stage, preoperational, lasts from two years of age to seven years of

For generations, parents glanced at their children and smiled with pride at their little angels painting of an unrecognizable family scene or at a sticker earned on a spelling paper. Looking back, these make up the happy memories of a father or mother. Parents tend to overlook the tantrums of the terrible twos, the kicking during sibling rivalry matches, the endless hassles of bedtime rituals, which lead to endless nights of waiting for the teenager to come home, not to mention the financial strain of money spent on a child. Yet, for some parents, these headaches do not just happen occasionally. After endless frustrations, these parents turn to medical professionals for help in finding an answer to why their child is not an

As discussed in For the Love of Babies, Joanna was admitted to the delivery unit at thirty-seven weeks’ gestation (Hall, 2011). Her daughter, Samantha, was diagnosed with anencephaly. Although the family known of their daughter’s diagnosis, adequate education on the process of the condition was lacking. In the family’s initial interview with Dr. Hall, Joanna had stated that she believed that the fatal diagnosis was due to a lack in folic acid intake. Shortly thereafter, Joanna gave birth to her daughter. The entire family had taken part of the delivery, along with a photographer and a priest. Dr. Hall remained with the family until Samantha had passed, assisted the family in giving her a bath, and comforted the family as they grieved the loss of their daughter.

When i observe the child i noticed that she dint need to be verbal in order to realize what she wanted or needed. It was pretty cool to see that at this stage of her life what gives her a sense of confort is her mouth. i seen she was very social with her facial expressions.

This study included 71 infant females age?, and both of their parents, which were predominantly Caucasian and middle-class and were taken from another larger study that examined infants’ socio-emotional development. The parents completed a questionnaire prior to each laboratory visit that consisted of questions regarding demographics and infant temperament. The questionnaire measured three factors of temperament, surgency (smiling/ laughing), negative affectivity (distress to limitations/ sadness), and regulation (low intensity pleasure/ cuddliness).

In observing a normal newborn's behaviors and activities, reflexes play an important role. They help to identify normal brain and nerve activity. In my observation of Baby A, she demonstrated reflexes of rutting in finding the nipple of her bottle, sucking, head turning and grasping of my fingers. Although she was born full-term, she was quite small in stature and weight. She also showed alertness to senses of sight, hearing, taste and touch. Of course, at first, she slept most of the time while she was in my care, but as she aged, she became more active and alert. The key element to keeping Baby A happy was taking care of her physical needs first…diaper changes, feeding and burping. Although she is still very small in weight and height, she shows no sign of delayed development and is now a happy, healthy toddler.

His parents were divorce when he was a baby. The unluckily marriage make the pregnant be down in spirits which may make a deep influenced on fetus (Phillips, 2007).

Social interaction and development is very important to how a living being develops and grows. Without it, [name withheld] wouldn’t be able to function as properly as she does now. Around the age of nine months, [name withheld]’s mother displayed emotions all in front of her. Her mother knew that she was always staring at her, as this is normal for babies to do. This is called social referencing; a process that infants use. It is wherein infants use the affective displays of an adult to regulate their behaviors toward environmental objects, persons, and situations. This provided an insight for her to get a sense of their new environment and the people and objects that form a part of it.

This essay deals with the circumstances and challenges faced by 24-year-old Hailey, who became pregnant when she was 18, and now lives with Casey, her six-year-old daughter. Hailey has been referred to social services cell for appropriate social work intervention. She has been engaging in bouts of anger issues and has a history of suffering from binge eating weight loss.