Finding parent B wasn’t too hard of a challenge‚ I was at a family cookout and noticed a mother verbally and physically abusing her child. Watching the child’s face in humiliation was heart breaking‚ that I wanted to comfort the boy. What stood out to me when I observed the mother forcefully slapping the kid on the butt and hands anytime the child didn’t listen to her. This is a form of unwanted parenting‚ “mother’s not wanting to have any children or not wanting to have more than she has” (Brooks
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Upon arrival to the house‚ I found both children playing with different toys in different parts of the home; the girl being five years old and the boy being three years old. Luckily‚ their aunt was more than willing to help‚ and was able to get the children together to start playing. Before I engaged in play with the children‚ I started out by sitting on the couch just watching them‚ and then slowly got closer until I was sitting right next to them on the coffee table. I did this so I did not feel
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REMEMBER: To use pseudonym (not real name) Age of *Child (ren): 3 Sex of Child (ren): male Section One: Little “Bob” walks across the classroom and grabs the peg board. He then sits down in the chair at the left corner of the table. He puts every blue circle peg in its place‚ then he places two of the dark green pegs‚ then all of the yellow triangles‚ then three of the red square pegs‚ then the last rectangular peg and finally the last square peg. He then leans against the
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In an evening spent at a local park‚ I observed two toddlers playing on the playground. Both toddlers were about the same size and height‚ and they were seemingly about two years of age. These two children stood out to me because though they seemed about the same age‚ their behavior on the playground was very different. As I observed‚ both subtle and large differences began to make themselves apparent. One of the toddlers‚ a male‚ was playing on the equipment with a male caregiver. While he was
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Laura Taylor Paul Kincs Child and Adolescent Psych 26 April 2010 Child Observation This time‚ I decided to observe children between the ages of five and six in a kindergarten class room at Maddock Public School. Maddock is a smaller school and there were only five children in the class‚ all of them were boys. I knew this would be an interesting day‚ because we learned in class that boys tend to be a little bit more active and disobedient‚ but I was definitely looking forward to it. I went
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According to Piaget Cognitive Development Theory (Berk‚ 2003‚ p.133)‚ this child is in the preoperational stage (2-7 years)‚ and he behaves normally. When the father left he was upset. His mother asked him to sit still in one of the chairs. He was lying in an arm chair‚ moving his legs up and down. Then he put his feet on the armrest of the chair next to him‚ where his sister was sitting. He repeated this behavior several times in attempt to hit his sister. That made his mother tell him off. However
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INTRODUCTION Through my years of growing up‚ I only knew to have the basic needs a child should have. My parents struggled to raise four children. We lived in a two-roomed house‚ where one was the kitchen area and the other the sleeping area. We had only one big bed in the sleeping area‚ where my sister and I shared the bed with my mother. My two brothers slept on a single mattress in front of the bed. My father was a construction worker and worked out of town most of the time. We only saw him during
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factors. According to Webster’s dictionary the word play means‚ activities done for fun or enjoyment. (Merriam-Webster) Play is important to young children and their exploration. Free play is a monitored activity‚ which is a special interest of child. When an infant and toddler
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then went on to ask each child what they would like to paint. All the children suggested they wanted to paint a castle‚ apart from child C who wanted to paint a picture of his family. I then asked each child what colour paper they would like to paint on and they all shouted “Blue” at me. I asked each child to pick the sizes of the paint brush they would like to paint with‚ as I went around all the children took a large paint brush and left me with four small brushes. Child C was very upset because
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past ten years‚ obesity in children in the U.S has gone from 7-18 percent (CDC‚2012). The main portion of this lesson revolves around the food pyramid. The food pyramid consists of 6 essential healthy food groups: Grains/rice‚ fruits‚ vegetables‚ dairy‚ meat/fish/poultry‚ fats/oils/sweets. The food pyramid acts as a guideline by showing
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