Middle Childhood Growing up, I had to learn to be more mature than what my age depicted. I was adept at taking care of not only myself but my three younger brothers; being assigned this role around the "middle childhood" age was challenging, causing me to acquire the development for new capabilities. My social development was not necessarily flourishing at this point in time, due to cumulative disruption in my home-life. This led up through my adolescence and even has a tendency to continually
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me as I was able to compare the various theories and how they related to my own children’s developmental milestones. Having two typical children and one with Autism, it was fascinating to see the differences and similarities in their cognitive and moral development. One specific chapter that grabbed my attention was chapter 6, which focused on the different theories that focused on cognitive developmental milestones which were explained by Piaget and Vygotsky (Stantrock, pages 175 and 191). Piaget’s
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Reality behind the Life of an Adopted Child Anong magiging reaksyon nyo pag nalaman nyo na you were just an Adopted Child? Siguro iba sa inyo mag fe-freak out, o iiyak, o mag-jo-joke pa sa mga magulang like “Ma, Pa is this a prank? Where’s the camera?” sabay tingin sa paligid, mag rerebelde, o magpapakamatay. Oh cut the crap! Ano naman ngayon kung malaman nyo na isa kayong ampon? Walang masama doon. Kaya if ever nga nagkaganon wag muna kayong maghanap at humawak ng blade saka nyo lalaslasin yang
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Attachment Parenting: Following Your Instinct Often times, parents describe the feeling of holding their bundle of joy for the very first time as love at first sight. Why is that? Research has shown that this indescribable surge of emotions between parents and their offspring can be attributed to the natural hormone, oxytocin; ultimately triggering nurturing feelings and behaviors for both mom, dad and baby (Pedersen). Often times these natural feelings get pushed aside the moment mother and baby
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In life, you learn a lot of things. At school, home, with your friends, with your family, even by yourself, you are constantly learning. What most people don't know however, is how we learn. Our minds are very complex, and learning is essential to keep them running smoothly. Learning things, shape who we are, and what type of person we will become. They influence our behavior, and change us. In life, there are three types of behavior change. The three ways to change your behavior are, classical conditioning
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In an observational study conducted by Aznar and Tenenbaum, both mothers and fathers used more emotion words with their four-year old daughters than sons (2010). Even today, my parents use more emotion words when speaking to my sisters and me. However, I feel like my parents are more sensitive towards my seventeen-year-old sister and me than my fifteen-year-old sister. My seventeen-year-old sister and I have had more heart-to-heart conversations with my mother and even one time our father, than my
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Describe your learning opportunity, what are you planning for the children to do? BE CLEAR and DETAILED. Be sure there is a connection to your anecdotal observation. My learning opportunity for the children is to plan them a challenging activity as well as incorporating basic and complex skills. My activity will help them develop cooperating, helping, regulating emotions and behavior, teamwork, and games with rules. My activity is a cooperative activity the children will be placed in teams and
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Developmental psychology is the study of how and why humans change over the course of their lives. It studies the changes in human growth during their lifetime. Developmental psychology has significantly changed with many theorists who influenced it greatly since the early 1900s. Developmental psychologists study physical, cognitive, social, perceptual, personal, and emotional growth. Jean Piaget studied cognitive development. Piaget focused on how a child developed and how cognitive development
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The article, “Using Graphic Organizers in Preschool”, goes into detail about some graphic organizers and what they help children learn in preschool. Graphic organizers are usually used for older children, but they can be effective with preschoolers as well. To help make graphic organizers more child friendly you can draw or tape pictures next to the written responses in the chart so that younger children who can’t read can make sense of the print when looking at the chart. A web is good to help children
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Environmental influences that affect development are the child’s social/ cultural environment, thus family, educators, religion, culture, and economic status. Secondly, nurturing in a relationship with primary educators essential for healthy development and impact on brain development. Lastly, physical environment, health, nutrition, safety and geographic location of the child. Child development cannot happen in isolation, therefore, the environment and social factors influence a child’s development
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