Reflective Essay On Child Development

This current semester I had the opportunity to do a project that allowed me to visit one of my friend’s family to observe her three girls. I observed her three daughters to see how each one of them is developing. I was fortunate enough to have three different ages that are at different stages of life. One just started school, the other one is not in school yet and the youngest was born less than a year ago. It really opened my eyes to how two year differences can really impact the stage the children were at. The first thing I did for the project was determined what I wanted to do as my topic. I flipped through the entire Child and Family Development textbook and found the only one that I felt was applicable to me was observing three children using Word Pictures. I learned about another source that I used from a meeting with professor and it was the developmental milestone from Center for Disease Control. My project is applicable to the Child and Family Development class because my project studies the different aspect of development for a child. It shows how the different stages of development that a child experience as well as how other factors can contribute to the child’s development. One of the sources I used to determine how well each child was developing is from the …show more content…
I always enjoy time that I get to spend with children and I love seeing how each one is so different even though they are not very different in age. I thought that Word Pictures and the developmental milestone gave me a pretty good understanding about how most children act at that certain age and was a great guideline for me to make a conclusion about the children I observed. This has made me very excited to work with children when I start my career as a neuropsychologist in the future. Each child is very unique and should be treated as an individual, given the attention, love and support that he or she needs to thrive in the