Reflection Paper On School Age Children

For my journal, I have chosen to observe the school age child. During the time used in observing this age group, biological, cognitive, psychological developments were noted as well as interactions between children and child and caregiver. Taken into account of this observation were the social and cultural impacts to the development of the group. Finally, during this observation there were developmental challenges that will be discussed for this age group. The children and setting for my observations consisted of three children, the ages and sexes of the children in this observation were, female age six, male age five, and female age five. The three children were observed inside in a playroom where there was plenty of opportunity for them …show more content…
For this particular group of children, one aspect observed was the emotional control of all three children, even when different emotions presented themselves the children showed appropriate control for the age. There were times where the children showed control of emotions like anger and frustration over sharing toys and playing different games. On two different occasion control was applied by the boy, he had to show control when being frustrated over having to play “princess” which, he did not want to play. His reaction was one of frustration, he was able to control his emotion by stating, “I don’t want to play anymore.” After visually seeming frustrated by repeated request to play he simply began to play with another toy. The next situation that called for control of an emotion was when this same boy had to show control of anger over sharing a toy although this did require some assistance from the caregiver the boy was able control his emotion by understanding the concept of …show more content…
All three children share a similar culture being from the U.S all three children showed strong signs of independence for the age. The caregiver in this observation used many different ways to motivate the children into learning and behaving. For example, the children were motivated to color in order to receive praise from heir parents on a job well done, when they came to pick them up, Self-reinforcing the children. According to (Shultz, 2009) this would align with Alfred Banduras modeling theory for regulating behavior. So much of the behavior learned should be attributed to the culture of the children. This though doesn’t mean that all children from the U.S will function the same in (Berger, 2014) we