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My Virtual Child Assignment #5
1) One of the main activities that I believe that has promoted healthy behavioral practices and interest in physical activities is when we routinely take Jessica for walks to the park and continue to encourage her with age appropriate activities with her friends. When we take Jessica to the zoo and the park, she continuously asks questions and is very intrigued on why things happen. My partner and I physically interact with Jessica as much as possible. When she is trying to solve a problem and gets frustrated, we sit down and ask her questions that could help her figure it out on her own on how to solve it. Now because we always encourage Jessica to take part in activities with fellow peers at school she has developed the ability to work cooperatively in groups, consistently respects rights and possessions of others, and consistently demonstrates appropriate peer social interaction. We are very pleased with Jessica’s progress with activities, but we did have one area for concern. My partner was at school one day helping out with recess and noticed that the boys usually engage in physical activities in fairly large groups and keep the girls out. The girls tend to have small groups or even just one-on-one interactions. Jessica is able to play with both boys and girls, but mostly plays with girls. One experience that we had was Jessica and her friend left school at lunch undetected and went to a friends house, where they were not home. I believe that because Jessica has been experiencing some limitations between boys and girls, and was not cognitively able to decipher that the action of leaving school undetected is very dangerous and unacceptable. If she was in a bigger crowd with a variety of boys and girls, she may have learned that it not ok to leave because others have put in their input by saying “no we can’t leave” instead of always hanging around a certain individual who could see no problem in leaving school.
1) One of the main activities that I believe that has promoted healthy behavioral practices and interest in physical activities is when we routinely take Jessica for walks to the park and continue to encourage her with age appropriate activities with her friends. When we take Jessica to the zoo and the park, she continuously asks questions and is very intrigued on why things happen. My partner and I physically interact with Jessica as much as possible. When she is trying to solve a problem and gets frustrated, we sit down and ask her questions that could help her figure it out on her own on how to solve it. Now because we always encourage Jessica to take part in activities with fellow peers at school she has developed the ability to work cooperatively in groups, consistently respects rights and possessions of others, and consistently demonstrates appropriate peer social interaction. We are very pleased with Jessica’s progress with activities, but we did have one area for concern. My partner was at school one day helping out with recess and noticed that the boys usually engage in physical activities in fairly large groups and keep the girls out. The girls tend to have small groups or even just one-on-one interactions. Jessica is able to play with both boys and girls, but mostly plays with girls. One experience that we had was Jessica and her friend left school at lunch undetected and went to a friends house, where they were not home. I believe that because Jessica has been experiencing some limitations between boys and girls, and was not cognitively able to decipher that the action of leaving school undetected is very dangerous and unacceptable. If she was in a bigger crowd with a variety of boys and girls, she may have learned that it not ok to leave because others have put in their input by saying “no we can’t leave” instead of always hanging around a certain individual who could see no problem in leaving school.