A Brief Summary Of The Documentary Life At 3: Fighting Fat

In the documentary, Life at 3: Fighting Fat, researchers came up with different theories that may cause a child to become overweight. The researchers have different reasonings to why each child in the documentary could be at risk for becoming obese. The different factors include being born premature, living in a low income household, the way the child is disciplined, or genetics. While looking for different factors that may cause a child to become overweight I think the documentary points out other important concepts that have shaped the children’s lives. The documentary depicts how they perform a longitudinal study, how operant conditioning is used among toddlers and how child care is important to development, and how important siblings

Most children go to a child care service because both parents work, but in Joshua’s case his mother said “because I’m a stay-at-home and I have no speak English background, Jojo got to childcare is much better so he can speak a bit more English and communicate more and do something I couldn’t teach him” (Life at 3: Fighting Fat, segment 7). His mother mentions how he knew “mama” and “dada” but was not broadening his English language. She shows operant conditioning when Joshua counts to ten in Chinese and even though he is too young to articulate the words, they mostly sounded the same to me, and she smiles and applauds him. He uses both languages but does not have an immense vocabulary for either language because his mother does not speak fluent English, he is code mixing. (Papalia, 2015, p.156) In his case, child care benefits Joshua but consequently sometimes children have behavior problems when attending child care. (Papalia, 2015, p

His mother decided to then give birth to all five babies three months early. Ben was born smaller than the rest of his siblings with numerous medical problems. (Life at 3: Fighting Fat, segment 1) He was behind his siblings in overall development. Because Ben grew up with his siblings being the same age as them he may have developed faster than predicted, for himself, and caught up to his siblings because he imitated what they did. (Papalia, 2015, p. 184) “Sibling relationships play a distinct role in socialization”, this is a good explanation to how Ben caught up to his siblings by following in their footsteps. (Papalia, 2015, p. 184) I think this also portrays observational learning because Ben observed what his siblings did and tried to do himself. I have a sister three years younger than me and when she was becoming a teen she always wanted to copy things I did like wear makeup and try to do her hair similar. She was trying to develop skills of an elder that, I am assuming, she