Social Observation Toddlers

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With children between the ages of zero years and two years, there are numerous amounts of developmental changes that happened in between that time span. While observing the toddlers in lab one, ages zero years to two years old, I witnessed multiple kinds of developmental changes. These children also encountered many people. In the lab, I seen multiple toddlers showing different signs of social development. Some of the toddlers were talking the whole time I was there and some of the toddlers didn’t speak not one word while I was observing. The job of interacting with the toddlers was not a hard job for the teachers because there were not as many toddlers. A male born 06/03/15, would always yell to get the
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A male born 12/18/15 wasn’t running that much compared to the other kids. The only thing he could do is stand up while holding onto a chair and crawl. Some gross motor skills that he demonstrated was crawling around the classroom and being able to stand with support. He showed fine motor skills when he would play with a toy then he would want to crawl, but he couldn’t with the toy in his right hand, so he would switch it to the other hand and begin to crawl. The switching of hands would have been the fine motor skill in that situation. Comparing him to the male born on 06/03/15, their abilities were not similar whatsoever. The male born 06/03/15 could walk perfectly and run. The fine motor skills that this male showed was using both of his hand to do different task. He would be drawing with a crayon in one hand and with the other hand he would be eating an animal cracker. A gross motor skill he showed was when he was outside and was jumping from rock to rock along the playground. Gross motor skills are when larger movements of the body are made and fine motor skills are when small movements of the body are made (Baltimore, D., HD FS 102 lecture, 2016, Fall). Comparing the two males to kids of their age, both males were at the point in which science would say their actions showed. The male born on 12/18/15 is ten months and compared to the findings, ten-month-old kids usually use furniture to help guide them to stand up or even walk and that’s what this male was doing. The other male born on 06/03/15 is twenty months old and by that age kids should master walking and can jump, skip, and tumble (Baltimore, Fall,

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