Childhood Observation Essay

By observing and reading the chapters, it has help understand why some children behave the way they do. The reading has provided me with insight full information about children that I didn’t know and how everything is connected to child development. Over the course of the semester I have noticed a change in the children’s social and emotional skills. They display the basic emotions such as happiness, sad, anger, and disgust (pg. 250). A basic emotion that they display is happiness when they see their teachers. They get very excited to greet and hug them in the morning. It shows that these kids have made a stable relationship with their caregivers. Another basic emotion that has seen them displayed is anger during play time. Some of the children don’t like to share toys. They start to get angry at one another and sometimes they would hit each other. Occasionally when this happens the teacher ends play time and they cleaned up. If they keep fighting the teacher would ask …show more content…
Erikson’s work became very influential in the field of child development. Without the work of Freud’s psychosexual theory Erikson could have developed these stages of psychosocial. In Erikson’s work he discusses the basic trust versus mistrust stage a child has. Infants must learn that adults can be trusted. Their caregivers or parents must provide all the necessary things they need for survival in order to the child to have trust in them. They must also feel like they are protected and safe. They are going to start to feel anxiety and fear if their needs are not being met or if they being mistreated. If they continued to feel mistreated it’s going leave them with a sense of mistrust. An example of trust that I see in my observation hours, caregivers greet the children in an appropriate matter. The teachers would give them a hug and ask about their morning. They show the children that they can be trusted by showing kindness. Also by making them feel like the classroom is a safe for them to be