The Growth Development and Parenting influence of Elias Childhood can be an excitement time when days are filled with play and new discoveries, loving parents nurture their children and meet their needs. Some children do experience the joy of childhood, but unfortunately, some children do not have nurturing adults to guide them. Throughout this course, we have learned that creating suitable environments for young children such as time, patience, warmth, and love are the key to optimal development outcome. Applying this knowledge to My Virtual Child program helps developing an even greater understanding on how to raise and guide a child. My child was born on Christmas day. After about 10 hours long of natural laboring, a healthy baby,
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He seems to be energetic, and often end up in a dangerous place. I make sure to firmly say “No,” and put him in a time-out place to calm him down. Sometimes, he switches moods from happy to angry very fast when I introduce new foods or activities. I try to be patient with him, then maintain a neutral reaction when he acts this way. Lately, I notice Elias’s object performance has improved. He is able to find a hiding object when I repeatedly switch it to the second hiding place. According to Jean Piaget, suggested that infants did not have a full understanding of the permanent existence of object until around 18 months of age (Goswami, 2014). Also, He is clearly able to understand a couple of dozen words, so I focus on teaching him new words by slowly pronouncing the words for him to imitate. As Elias turns two years old, he wants to do more things himself such as picking out colorful new toothbrush. I and my partner notice some new emotion in the past month. He looks guilty when did something wrong, or he is shy when asked to be in a photograph. As for cognitive performance, he now has become better at solving problems, such as how to get hiding toys or other objects. I watch him closely, but trying not to get involved only encouraging and smiling at him when he runs into an obstacle. He starts to combine two words into a sentence, so I choose to give reward and praise him for more complex sentences to speed up language …show more content…
It is time to prepare him for starting school. During this stage, a major development is a rapid physical and intellectual development, which includes interacting cooperatively with peers, and also able to compete physically and intellectually. At preschool, he hesitates in engaging in group activities and does not have any close friend. I make a decision to arrange a few play date with preschool children around the neighbourhood to see how he reacts. He often Recently, I notice that he talks alone, and enjoys pretend play, which considers normal for preschool age. Studies suggest that between 20 percent and 50 percent of preschool children have an imaginary friend (Goswami, 2014). Based on the testing situation and the observations at the preschool, the report shows that was having some difficulties complying with instructions and sticking to the rules of the preschool. When tasks became challenging he tended to get frustrated and upset and gave up early. The doctor suggests to give him a guidance to help him to stay on track. The report shows that my scores on parenting questionnaires put me slightly above average in term of warmth and affection toward
He seems to be energetic, and often end up in a dangerous place. I make sure to firmly say “No,” and put him in a time-out place to calm him down. Sometimes, he switches moods from happy to angry very fast when I introduce new foods or activities. I try to be patient with him, then maintain a neutral reaction when he acts this way. Lately, I notice Elias’s object performance has improved. He is able to find a hiding object when I repeatedly switch it to the second hiding place. According to Jean Piaget, suggested that infants did not have a full understanding of the permanent existence of object until around 18 months of age (Goswami, 2014). Also, He is clearly able to understand a couple of dozen words, so I focus on teaching him new words by slowly pronouncing the words for him to imitate. As Elias turns two years old, he wants to do more things himself such as picking out colorful new toothbrush. I and my partner notice some new emotion in the past month. He looks guilty when did something wrong, or he is shy when asked to be in a photograph. As for cognitive performance, he now has become better at solving problems, such as how to get hiding toys or other objects. I watch him closely, but trying not to get involved only encouraging and smiling at him when he runs into an obstacle. He starts to combine two words into a sentence, so I choose to give reward and praise him for more complex sentences to speed up language …show more content…
It is time to prepare him for starting school. During this stage, a major development is a rapid physical and intellectual development, which includes interacting cooperatively with peers, and also able to compete physically and intellectually. At preschool, he hesitates in engaging in group activities and does not have any close friend. I make a decision to arrange a few play date with preschool children around the neighbourhood to see how he reacts. He often Recently, I notice that he talks alone, and enjoys pretend play, which considers normal for preschool age. Studies suggest that between 20 percent and 50 percent of preschool children have an imaginary friend (Goswami, 2014). Based on the testing situation and the observations at the preschool, the report shows that was having some difficulties complying with instructions and sticking to the rules of the preschool. When tasks became challenging he tended to get frustrated and upset and gave up early. The doctor suggests to give him a guidance to help him to stay on track. The report shows that my scores on parenting questionnaires put me slightly above average in term of warmth and affection toward