...Child Development June 16, 2014 Child Observation Narrative I observed my two children; infant and toddler at the same time. The infant was 16 months, and the toddler was three. In my notes, child #1 is the infant and child #2 is the toddler. Both children are males. The setting for this observation is a scheduled playdate by the children’s parents. Both children’s mother and father are present. Child one screamed “AAHHHRRRAAA” a lot and had a toy truck in front of him. Child didn’t immediately start to play with the truck; he slammed down on the toy with his hands open and pushed it around. Child one tried to get up and ramble without a definite purpose around the room which he had difficulty doing because his gross motor skills seem to not yet be fully developed. Child ones mother grabbed him and said to him “no baby I need to keep an eye on you’ and sat him back down where he began. The child began to scream inaudibly “AHH!” Child two came out of his room, not knowing that anyone was there and slowly came near or nearer to the small group in his house and immediately moved with haste to where the other child was. Child two said “Ty, play trucks with me! This is your truck. Okay? Now let’s race!” Child one continued to sit in front of the truck, non-responsive to child two. Instead of playing with child two, child one stared blankly into the next room, and had drool forming at his bottom lip. Child one placed both of his hands firmly on the ground beneath him and with...
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...Observation 1 Sonshine Factory * They have not had any violations * Children are allowed to take naps * There is primary care * They focus on primary care * The caregiver did respond promptly. Baby begins kicking and making face like about to cry and caregiver responds immediately. Once baby is calm caregiver talk to baby in a calm tone. * The caregiver did acknowledge and was consistently interested in social interaction. The child was playing and caregiver played together. * When infant was calm the caregiver was attentive and began interacting with infant. Infant smiled and engaged with caregiver. * Caregiver made sure child was involved in his own activity before she disengaged. * Caregiver was with her group and once she noticed that there was a sharing problem she right away addressed it and to prevent the issue from escalating. * Caregiver did intervene at appropriate times for the most part. There was one time when she was focusing on a specific child when there were 2 other children not agreeing. * The caregiver gave them proper stimulation, did not over stimulate. The children were all being playful. * Caregiver made sure the child was engaged in its own activity and did not interrupt. * When the caregiver needed to change a diaper, she would let the child know that it was time to change their diaper. She was gentle and child obliged. * The caregiver when she wanted to steer the child from doing something...
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...Competency Standard I To establish and maintain a safe, healthy, learning environment Functional Area I: Safety In my center I keep children safe by creating an environment where children gain the knowledge and discipline that allows them to make appropriate choices on their own. Emotional safety is promoted through daily greetings, love rituals and positive reinforcement. Children’s feelings are acknowledged, validated, and appropriate guidance suggested and modeled. I make sure activities are fun, safe and developmentally appropriate. The children are encouraged to make good choices by having discussions, giving lessons, and reading books that talk about safety issues. I comply with all state licensing regulations daily by checking the overall safety of our childcare room to ensure there are no hazardous materials or objects in range or site of my children or adults. Additionally, I check the playground for hazards before children are allowed to play. My goal is to keep the environment safe at all times so my children feel free and secure to play and learn in all areas Functional Area II: Healthy My goal in this area is to keep children healthy by monitoring their health. I do this by carefully observing children and watching for signs of illness, making sure immunizations are up to date, maintaining a sick child policy, and providing snacks and meals which meet the USDA guidelines for children’s daily nutritional needs. I educate children about the...
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...The First Steps Infant & Toddler Program wants to ensure that all babies and toddlers have a safe, healthy, emotionally secure and intellectually rich start in life. This program helps eligibly children from birth to thirty-six months of age. Their eligibility is based on families with incomes at or below 200 percent poverty level, single parent homes, and teen parent homes will have the priority and all services will be provided free of charge. Children who don’t meet the criteria, but have documented development issues will also have a priority. The First Steps Infant & Toddler Program will offer a full-day and/or full-year care for working families. The full-day/ full-year care program is supervised by professionals in early child development....
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...principles based on the philosophy of respect. In our text, “Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers, A Curriculum of Respectful, Responsive, Relationship-Based Care and Education” by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and Dianne Wildmeyer Eyer, they list and describe the three stages of childhood which include young infants, mobile infants, and toddlers. They also list and describe the ten principles based on the philosophy or respect which include (1) involving infants and toddlers, (2) investing in quality time, (3) learning each child’s unique ways of communication, (4) investing time and energy to build a total person, (5) respect infants...
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...Every year, many children are injured and have to live with following problems after the injuries such as disabilities and chronic pain. Major goal is to take on time action and help children grow without injuries. NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR CHILD INJURY PREVENTION An agenda to prevent injuries and promote the safety of children in the United States 2012 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Infants safety environment * Many accidents with the babies happened at home and the most often it is falls and playing with small objects * After falls infants can have brain damage which can lead to death. * Baby can chocking, while playing with small objects and small toys by swallow, * Successful solutions Training in child development. In service training of Infant and Toddler: Health and safety * The infant and toddler curriculum is based on the unique daily experience. * One on one interaction between each child and caregivers. How we know infants and toddlers are explorers...
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...Chapter 1- ‘A Relationship-Based Model and the Importance of the Infant and Toddler Years’- 1. Why do infants and toddlers need responsive, continuous caring relationship with parents, families, and teachers? Positive relationships are vital for infants and toddlers as well. To thrive, infants and toddlers need loving adults who protect, nurture, and help them learn. Adults who respond to children and treat them with respect promote their strengths. In fact, respectful responses from others are essential to infants’ and toddlers’ sense of security, self-worth, self-confidence, and motivation to learn. Infants’ and toddlers’ experience of healthy relationships is the foundation for their ability to love and learn. 2. Create a list of why the first 3 years of life are so important for the well-being of infants and toddlers? No other stage of human development requires as much learning and results in as many changes as in the first 3 years of life. Some infants and toddlers are healthy, have enough to eat, feel safe and loved, are talked to in responsive ways, and feel like valued members of their families and cultures. Educators and parents now know, definitely, that what happens during the first 3 years of a child’s life has a long-lasting effect on who that person is and will become. Infants’ and toddlers’ early experiences will influence their ability to learn, feelings of self-worth, sense of competence, and capacity to love and care for others. The work...
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...Importance of Nutrition during Infancy to Toddler-Hood Instructor: Sundie Goulding September 6, 2010 When a woman becomes pregnant the doctors be sure to inform her that she will need to make sure she has good nutritional foods throughout the pregnancy to help her and the baby with healthy weight gain and a healthy body. If she chooses not to follow doctor’s orders she will be putting herself and her baby at risk of unhealthy bodily conditions. The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader of the importance of good nutritional values during the infancy and toddler-hood of children. When a child has good nutritional values it leads to healthy physical and mental conditions. Proper nutrition plays a significant role in children’s health and growth while they are infants and further into toddler-hood. However, malnutrition can cause a damper in children’s health and development. Ways that mothers can make sure that their infants are receiving nutrition with ever feeding is through breastfeeding. Mother’s that choose to breastfeed help their children to be healthy physically, mentally, and emotionally. Children that are breastfed are healthier physically because breastmilk helps an infant be less prone to having postneonatal death and it prevents illnesses such as diarrhea, respiratory, ear, and urinary tract infections. They are healthier mentally because the nutrients in breastmilk help with brain development in infants. They are also healthier emotionally because...
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...Appropriate Toys for Infants and Toddlers The National Association for the Education of Young Children has a list of recommendations for developmentally appropriate equipment and toys for infants and toddlers. This list helped an extensive amount while picking out toys for an infant room and for a toddler room at a daycare. Children of these ages may all be considered “babies” but it should be known that they are growing fast every day. Their cognitive and developmental skills are growing and they are increasing development with language and motor skills, too. (Developmental Domains) It is important that these children have the right toys to play with at the different developmental and cognitive stages in their life. A 7 month old is going to differ a lot more than even a 3 month old, and a two year old is going to be a lot more cognitively developed than a 12 month old because at these young ages is where one grows the most. Young babies are developing in different ways than older infants. They follow moving objects and other people with their eyes. At this age, they are basically figuring themselves out and learning how to use what they were born with. Young infants will reach with their arms and turn their head to different sounds. (NAEYC) It would be essential to have mirrors in an infant room so they can look at themselves and study themselves. This will keep an infant busy and occupied for a while. Infants also enjoy things that they can lay under and look up and touch...
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...infant toddler Infant/Toddler Michelle Barnhart Child Development Jessica Rodriguez June 5, 2012 “For infants and toddlers learning and living is the same thing. If they feel secure, treasured, loved, their own energy and curiosity will bring them new understanding and new skills”. There are many factors that contribute to an infant or toddler’s development; these characteristics are known as milestones. “Milestones are punctuations in a baby's growth and development. Milestones of physical development proceed from head to toe. Hence, the child first learns to control his head, then his body, arms and then legs. These milestones provide a guide to parents telling them what to expect and when to expect it.”(Physical development in Infants starts right at birth. Infants cannot control their body movements. Most of their movements are called reflexes. Their nervous system is not entirely developed. During the first months, infants can see clearly objects that are about 10 inches away from their faces. This is why holding baby close and looking at them face to face is important with bonding. By six months, their vision is more fully developed. By four months, most babies have some control of their muscles and nervous system. They can sit with support, hold their head up for short periods of time, and can roll from their side to their stomach. By five months, most babies can roll over. The next characteristic of infant development is social and emotional. . Babies cry...
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...cultures. Culture is part of an infant/child’s development. The infant/child’s culture helps them develop into who they become when they are adults. A person’s culture has influence on their eating, sleeping, and everyday activities. In this paper, the factors that make up a person’s culture, how the culture influences infant and toddler development, and whether nature or nurture has a stronger influence will be discussed. There are many factors that make up a person’s culture. Culture is not just a person’s race or ethnicity. Some factors that make up a person’s culture can include a combination of thoughts, attitudes, feelings, values, beliefs, behavioral patterns, class, physical abilities, mental abilities, age, foods, clothing, music, and holidays just to name a few. Racial, religion, ethnic, sexual orientation, and social groups of people are also other facts that contribute to a person’s culture. A person does not have to be born into a certain culture but can also make the choice to belong to a certain culture. Culture shifts can happen with any individual and at any point of their lives. An individual can pick and choose which customs they want to change and which ones they want to retain and which ones they want to adapt to. (Zion, Kozleski, & Fulton, 2005) There are many ways that a person’s culture influences the development of an infant and toddler. A culture can dictate or state how an infant is fed, how the infant/toddler sleeps, how they interact with...
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...of the human body. From pregnancy through toddler hood the fetus is growing and developing at a faster rate than at any other time in its life. The proper balance of nutrition can be the difference in birth weight, birth defects, and obesity. Too little energy, protein, and nutrients during this sensitive period can lead to lasting deficits in cognition, social, and emotional development. The importance of nutrition in pregnancy cannot be overstated. Proper nutrition, from conception through the first year of life, is a key factor to healthy growth and development in a baby. Not only do we need to be concerned with what is eaten we also need to look at how much is eaten. Good nutrition maintains maternal energy requirements, provides the underlying layer for the development of the new fetus tissues, and builds energy reserves for postpartum lactation. “Recommendations for prenatal nutrition have traditionally been directed at two clinical arenas, weight gain in pregnancy and dietary intake in pregnancy.” (Booker, C.J. 2010) Conversely, over nutrition can have just as negative an affect as malnutrition? Increasing the awareness of infant nutrition is especially critical now as the U.S. faces escalating rates of obesity across all segments of the population. And yet the debate over obesity often ignores the importance of infant nutrition in the first year of life. (Hedley, A.A. 2004) And although growth decreases during toddler hood nutrition remains a top priority. During...
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...Stage of Development: Infant/Toddler Erika Salvador ECE 332 Child Development Carrie Phillips April 5, 2012 Stage of Development: Infant/Toddler Neonates from the moment of conception to the point of delivery are dependent on their mother to live a healthy life style to avoid the obvious risks of delivering a child with abnormalities. Neonates are born with the instinct that they need to be nurtured, loved and cared for. Bonding is the formation of feelings of attachment between the parents and their children (Rathus, 2011). In order for a bond to occur between the neonate and the mother the mother must provide a healthy nurturing experience to help enrich her neonate’s physical growth and development. Developmental characteristics and milestones of infants and toddlers are many. Between birth and three, children rapidly achieve many important milestones that create the foundation for later growth and development ( Haliburton, 2004). Children must feel safe and secure to develop that sense of trust which then creates independence in the later years. Children are all different and their milestones at their own pace, however they need support of their parent and caregiver in order for this to happen. At the age group from birth to 8months their characteristics are as follows: * Reaches towards interesting objects * Puts hand/objects in mouth * Repeatedly grasps and releases objects * Lifts and holds up head * Sits up alone * Rolls over ...
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...and experiences are explained and shared. Other areas to be examined is the developmental milestones functional skills that are age specific tasks that children achieve during various levels of development, infant brain development, and attachment. Although each milestone is age appropriate, children development varies from child to child taking in to consideration every child is unique. Introduction In a study conducted (2009) on babies language learning starts from the womb. From the first day a newborn cries they already bear the mark of the language their parents speak. In another dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation. Even through prenatal exposure to their native language was known for some time to influence newborns, scientist now believe that it happens much earlier than the preconceived notion that surrounding language affected sound production later in the infant’s life. In addition newborns prefer their mothers’ voice over other voices. In another study Pre – linguistic Infancy 0-1 Beginning in the womb, infants are introduced to language and are able to hear and distinguish a parent’s voice. After birth, language development will rapidly increase to include talking, singing and the ability to make signs and...
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...with an understanding of dealing with change. When faced with challenges how can you handle it? When working with infants and toddlers it is very important to aid them in correct ways. Finding solutions and helping others is key. Included in the article is an example situation of how transitions affect a baby’s physical development. When a baby’s caretaker is changed it can tell things are not the same. The way they are held, fed, and even talked to. They do not know how to express their feelings towards the change which results in them acting out by physically crying or making a fuss. Sometimes a baby’s internal forces can cause the outbreaks ("Helping Babies Make Transitions" ). During periods of time when these transitions occur the article introduces a procedure that can be followed. This three-step process is to Observe, Ask, and Respond (OAR) and can be used to aid in helping babies undergo changes. Even though many programs have plans and set ups to help them with transitions sometimes unexpected things can happen. The observe, ask, and respond process with provide assistance to keep things running as smooth as possible for the facility, baby, and parents involved ("Helping Babies Make Transitions" ). The first step in the process is to observe. When doing observations it is extremely imperative to take in everything! When dealing with infants and toddlers, and their development there are so many areas to cover. Behaviors, attitudes, moods, schedules, and even the atmosphere...
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