KUYC: Middle Childhood Development

For my paper, I opted to do observations of children in the KUYC as well as interviewing a mother on her children, one during their adolescent years and another in the middle childhood stage (The mother’s children are both past these stages, but we conducting the interview and the questions were answered in the frame of the son being 10 years old and the daughter 15 years old to see different aspects of their development.) These interviews showed me a number of developmental characteristics that were present in the children of the University of Kansas Youth choir, which will be referred to as KUYC, and the two siblings, which shall from this point onward be referred to as “the 10 year old” and “the 15 year old,” respectively, that carried throughout the set stages of development outlined in our text. Starting with the interviews, I interviewed a mother of five, but we only discussed the 10 year old and the 15 year old during the interview. Starting with the 10 year old, I was able to see instances and evidence of the mother being establish as a secure base for the child. She commented that the 10 year old was always “a mama’s boy [and] tended to go to her for comfort.” Having successfully developed the emotional bonds at a young age, the …show more content…
The mother I interviewed showed how Bowlby’s attachment theory plays out throughout the lives of her children and how she, as a caregiver, developed as a caregiver. She reported that her parenting style did change, not just because of time, but because of her experiences as a parent that changed her views of how she should act as a parent. Observation, like these, will allow me to formulate a proper “plan of attack” on how to teach and work with my students to reinforce and support them as they transition between childhood and