Example Of Child Observation

Observation Activity Paper #1
Description of the Observation The child I have been researching, is my 10 year old little cousin. He has a problem of wetting the bed at night. I asked him, my aunt and uncle a series of questions of how his bed-wetting problem affects him and some basic information on when he first started to learn how to go to the bathroom by himself. First, he said he is afraid to have sleepovers with his friends because he is afraid he will pee the bed at his friend’s house and be embarrassed. Second, I asked my aunt and uncle when he was potty-trained. They said they started when he was 2 and 4 months. He was fully trained at 4. What I defined to my aunt and uncle as fully trained was, going to the bathroom on his own without any rewards of going to do his business. Third, I asked my cousin what he tries to do to stop wetting the bed. He said he tries to go use to the bathroom, before bed and stop drinking liquids an hour before he goes to bed. Finally, I ask my cousin what my aunt and uncle does when he wets the bed. He said sometimes they get mad with him about it, but he also said that they do try and help him by not letting him drink an hour before bed.

It is actually mostly his parents fault. Bed wetting is an inherited by your parents (Rice, 2015). Some of the bed wetting genes are on your 13, 12, and 8th chromosome. It says we get these genes from both our mom and dad (Rathus, 2014). If a trait like bed wetting comes from more than one gene then it is called a polygenic (Rathus,