The Parent-Child Interactions Project is to make us the writers go out and observe appropriate and inappropriate parent-child interactions. Then discuss the location, child age, which parents were there, what we observed, and why we think one parent-child interaction was appropriate and inappropriate. Next, we will discuss how the book changed our view of what we considered appropriate parenting. In addition, to our views, we have to explain how the appropriate and inappropriate interaction came to be. Finally, we discuss an interaction between our Virtual Child, that if somebody was observing us, how would they react to our behavior and would he/she think my behavior to my child was appropriate or inappropriate.
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The child was with his dad and appeared to me to be between the ages of three and four because the way he was asking questions and his temperament. When the father and child arrived at the McDonalds, I was already there minding my own business, but the PlayPlace was closed for cleaning. The father and child sat down and ate their meal, then I heard the child pointing at the PlayPlace and saying “I want to play in there” to his dad. Fortunately, the cleaning of the PlayPlace was almost done, but the worker said “It will take five minutes for the chemicals to dry and then you can play, which means you can play at one-twenty”. The child then asked his dad “What does it mean when he says five minutes and one-twenty?”, the dad pointed at the clock and explained to his kid that when people say five minutes and one-twenty, they are talking about time. The dad explained how the small hand is the number in the front and the big hand represents the number in the back and when the big hands goes from one-fifteen to one-twenty-five minutes has past. While the parent and child were talking it seemed like the child forgot all about the PlayPlace because the child kept asking dad more questions like where did time came from and why we use it. What gave off to me as this parent-child interaction was appropriate was how the dad tried to explain …show more content…
The child appeared to be between the ages of four and five because the child was able to communicate to his parents in a different language and had the height of a four-five-year-old. While I was walking to the checkout line, I saw the child staring at the candy section and heard the dad yelling at him in a different language and point to his feet, probably signaling the child to come over here. The child yelled at his dad in a different language shaking his head left and right, probably saying no. Then the dad walked over to the child talked to him in an angry tone, dragged him by his feet, picked him up, and slap him on the butt, which I heard and saw since I was fifteen feet away from them. In my mind, I thought this parent-child interaction was bad because the dad was causing physical harm to the child by dragging him and slapping him on the butt and setting a precedence for the child that is okay to drag, hit, yell at people and becoming more aggressive to others in the
Appropriate and Inappropriate …show more content…
The child was with his dad and appeared to me to be between the ages of three and four because the way he was asking questions and his temperament. When the father and child arrived at the McDonalds, I was already there minding my own business, but the PlayPlace was closed for cleaning. The father and child sat down and ate their meal, then I heard the child pointing at the PlayPlace and saying “I want to play in there” to his dad. Fortunately, the cleaning of the PlayPlace was almost done, but the worker said “It will take five minutes for the chemicals to dry and then you can play, which means you can play at one-twenty”. The child then asked his dad “What does it mean when he says five minutes and one-twenty?”, the dad pointed at the clock and explained to his kid that when people say five minutes and one-twenty, they are talking about time. The dad explained how the small hand is the number in the front and the big hand represents the number in the back and when the big hands goes from one-fifteen to one-twenty-five minutes has past. While the parent and child were talking it seemed like the child forgot all about the PlayPlace because the child kept asking dad more questions like where did time came from and why we use it. What gave off to me as this parent-child interaction was appropriate was how the dad tried to explain …show more content…
The child appeared to be between the ages of four and five because the child was able to communicate to his parents in a different language and had the height of a four-five-year-old. While I was walking to the checkout line, I saw the child staring at the candy section and heard the dad yelling at him in a different language and point to his feet, probably signaling the child to come over here. The child yelled at his dad in a different language shaking his head left and right, probably saying no. Then the dad walked over to the child talked to him in an angry tone, dragged him by his feet, picked him up, and slap him on the butt, which I heard and saw since I was fifteen feet away from them. In my mind, I thought this parent-child interaction was bad because the dad was causing physical harm to the child by dragging him and slapping him on the butt and setting a precedence for the child that is okay to drag, hit, yell at people and becoming more aggressive to others in the