Personal Narrative: My Field Experience At Little Infant

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Through this course I was able to learn a lot about how infants develop. The videos taught me when children begin to actually see objects. Through the videos I was able to watch a baby develop the thought process that if they cry they will get attention. Crying is the main way for babies to get everyone to know what they want, it is their only way of communicated besides looking in the direction of what they want. My field experience at Little Alfa taught me a little bit. I changed a baby boys diaper for the first time. It may not seem like a big deal, but I have always been afraid to do it. On the account that I have experience from working at a daycare, I understood what some of the different cries and moans meant. It did not take me very

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