Observation of Child For this observation I went to the Mall. I sat next to the playground, which was full of children from different ages, and their moms watching them. The child I decided to observe seemed to be around three years old. • What did the child do during your observation? Be specific, what did he/she do and/or say? How did he/she interact with others? When I started looking at the playground, I saw many kids, but one of them got my attention as he was placing his face in one of the glass circles, looking at me. He was very little. After he was done looking, he started running around all the other kids and tried to pick up some toys that were on the floor. He was not interacting with other kids, because they seemed older than him. • If you could …show more content…
However, in this case I was at one of the stores, where I could observe a female adolescent who was accompanied by her mom. The adolescent I decided to observe seemed to be around 15 years of age and was. • What did the adolescent do during your observation? Be specific, what did he/she do and/or say? How did he/she interact with others? The adolescent I observed was looking at clothes with her mom while talking to her about what to wear for her date. She seemed to be rejecting her mom’s options for outfits. She was moving around the store, with a face of concern. • If you could have responded one time to the adolescent, what would you have said? How would you have intervened? Knowing that she was frustrated because she was not finding the perfect outfit for her date, I would have told her to breathe and that as long as she is and looks confident and happy, she will be successful in her date. Looks are important but should not be the main focus of the event. • What do you think that the adolescent was feeling during that time? I think she was feeling anxious about the event and wanted to make sure everything was going to be
Know what I mean? Anyway, she looks out the window and right across the street she sees the kid stick the knife into his father. (15) She was not wearing her glasses because she was trying to fall asleep. She would not be able to be certain that who she saw was the boy.
The last time I took my wife to the Smokey Mountains, I bought her a hand sewn quilt that was made in a factory. We had gone to that area to enjoy a little nature and get out of the city for awhile. We had a great visit and on the way out of town we decided to stop at a local shop that had a lot of craft like items. My wife has always loved quilts and I saw her eyes light up when she laid eyes on the quilt hanging from the wall. She asked the store clerk about the quilt, and she told me how nice it would match our bedroom at home.
She came back, picked up her last snack and held it out to me to open for her. I passed her the cookies and she took them to the slide. She went up the steps and sat on top in the corner while slowly eating the cookies. When they were gone she slid down the slide and went over to the books. She brought me a book so I went over to sit on the foam blocks to read to her.
She was so mad. She thought the kid was just making fun of her the WHOLE time. So every time she was asked a question
This happens when teens feel unaccepted in high school or sometime a situation (rape) she/he had been through before/during high school. In the book Speak, one of the statement states “I have entered school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, and the wrong attitude and I don’t have anyone to sit with” (Anderson 4). Having a good appearance is “important” in high school, if you want to feel accepted or wanted.. In the book Skin & Liars it states,”what about when people call you name on the streets?... What about when people stare to you?”.
Many youths are recognized for being up to no good and showing a sense of immaturity, due to their young age; they have a higher chance of getting into tough situations just to be noticed. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”, she describes what she believes seven young pool players perceive to be cool by using their perspective as the speaker of the poem. Popularity and peer-pressure play a huge role in youths immature actions. Brooks appears to mock the seven young men and deduce that they are in fact not cool. Instead, the message left is that the young men are defiant, uneducated, and careless.
Some people looked at clothes and made the judgment. They did not want to be your friend because it wasn’t a “Brand Names” or not from Macy’s or Emporium. I felt hurt and wished I could have beautiful outfits like them. For teenage girls, we all wanted to be popular and to hear compliments. I felt inferior to others and that stopped me from trusting and having a relationship.
Case Conceptualization Sheet (2-3 page limit double spaced) Student Name: Frank Gomez Case Name: Rory Hoy Age of Child or Adolescent: He did not say his aged but I am summing he is 14. 1. Brief summary of the case (4-5 sentences). Rory Hoy presents as a young boy who has difficulties with his attention as he often gets focused with more than one individual stimuli.
In Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?," the main character, Connie, is very concerned about her looks and making sure she always looks like what she would consider "pretty." As a young, fifteen year old girl, looking good and getting the attention of boys was her main priority. Although she is still technically a child, Connie wanted to look older and more mature, assumably to mimic the women she could see in advertisements and magazines. When kids reach their teenage years, they often long for the freedom of adulthood and want to be treated with the same respect adults get.
Romeo and Juliet and Teenagers of today are similar and different because they are teenagers who they live in controlling societies. As a teenager, acceptance is strived for among other peers as well as in society. Amidst other things, society’s view on how life should be and how people should act has changed over time. Because of the changes over time, teenagers have had to keep changing the way they are, act, feel, and speak. Teenagers sometimes feel the need to change who they are and their appearance because of images society gives them of how they should be.
Around fifteen minutes, the child I was observing got out legos,took them to the carpeted area and then started to play with them. He also invited others play to with them. This behavior shows initiative. He wants to be friendly and show he can do things. This behavior is congruent with Erikson's, initiative v guilt stage of development.
For the parent-child interaction observation, I decided to use my community park as the public setting. My observation consisted of watching the interaction of a mother and her two sons, who seemed to be twins around the age of six or seven years old. I observed the interaction from afar without them being aware that I was observing, which allowed me to note a true naturalistic observation without manipulation of the situation. The setting of the interaction was a community park, where a mother and her two sons of Indian ethnicity, were approaching a basketball court area. The mother began to strap a helmet on one son because he was about to ride his bike, while the other son was walking alongside them holding a basketball.
When children become teen agers, they start to worry more about how they look. They feel pressured to change the way they look or act because they want to fit in. The author of “Same Song” talks about this problem by writing about what her daughter and son do every morning. Her daughter puts on makeup, curls her hair, but she still doesn’t like the way she looks. Her son lifts weights, jogs a mile, but he too is not happy with the way he looks.
Introduction – Background information This paper is about child observation. I observed a child, Daniel (coded name). He is four years and two months old. Daniel is 103 cm and 18 kg.
The child that I observe this week and has been observing is my little brother Isaiah, who is one year old and he’s about to be two pretty soon. The developmental task that I observe my little brother doing is learning