Infant Observation 
Matthew Schmidt
Infant Observation
Dr. Basch For the infant observation, I decided to observe my best friend’s one-year-old son. I chose to observe him at his house because I thought that it would give me a better understanding of just how he acts when he is a setting that he is used to and comfortable in. The observation took place on March 14, 2015 at around 2:00 pm. There were two other people present during this observation, them being the child’s parents. I started my observation around 2:00 pm and I did not end up leaving until about 4:30 pm. I have always been around this child, but while I was conducting the research to complete this paper I found a few things that I have not noticed before. I seen that this child has a few special characteristics that I have not really noticed in other toddlers his age. He is very outgoing and not shy at all. His father is an actor and I believe that he will take after him because he will sit back and just watch movies and then will repeat the words back the best he can. It was really neat to see that a one-year-old baby can mimic words like that. Although the words are being repeated in baby talk, some of them are very noticeable in context. This child has a very interesting physical development. He was walking earlier than most children do and he is on his way to being semi potty trained. He will point at toilet from time to time and then he will go pee-pee. This child has a positive large muscle development happening. As I stated before, he is speaking a few words that are very clear and it’s easy to understand what he is trying to say. I noticed that he likes to sniff his mother’s shirt because it smells like her perfume. After he takes a big sniff of it, he will say “mmm” which made me laugh. I think that cognitive and language development is one of the most important aspects in child development. This child is already very intelligent. I noticed that when I gave him a pen and a notebook that he knew what to
Infant Observation
Dr. Basch For the infant observation, I decided to observe my best friend’s one-year-old son. I chose to observe him at his house because I thought that it would give me a better understanding of just how he acts when he is a setting that he is used to and comfortable in. The observation took place on March 14, 2015 at around 2:00 pm. There were two other people present during this observation, them being the child’s parents. I started my observation around 2:00 pm and I did not end up leaving until about 4:30 pm. I have always been around this child, but while I was conducting the research to complete this paper I found a few things that I have not noticed before. I seen that this child has a few special characteristics that I have not really noticed in other toddlers his age. He is very outgoing and not shy at all. His father is an actor and I believe that he will take after him because he will sit back and just watch movies and then will repeat the words back the best he can. It was really neat to see that a one-year-old baby can mimic words like that. Although the words are being repeated in baby talk, some of them are very noticeable in context. This child has a very interesting physical development. He was walking earlier than most children do and he is on his way to being semi potty trained. He will point at toilet from time to time and then he will go pee-pee. This child has a positive large muscle development happening. As I stated before, he is speaking a few words that are very clear and it’s easy to understand what he is trying to say. I noticed that he likes to sniff his mother’s shirt because it smells like her perfume. After he takes a big sniff of it, he will say “mmm” which made me laugh. I think that cognitive and language development is one of the most important aspects in child development. This child is already very intelligent. I noticed that when I gave him a pen and a notebook that he knew what to