Observation Paper For my observation, I observed my discipleship group leader’s daughter. For the purpose of this paper, I will be changing her name. I will call her Matti. When I was observing Matti, she was participating in one of the ministries that my church provides for children. This time is called Discipleship Training or DT. This time consists of two separate activities. The first is free time and game time and the second is lesson time which is led by the student pastor. From the information, I know about Matti, she is the youngest child of four children and her parents are older parents. Matti showed common behaviors of a youngest child and a child with permissive parents. Matti showed the behaviors of independent, anger, and fearfulness.
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Her demeanor changed into a very quiet and reserved state, which is very opposite from Matti’s normal personality. She was displaying one of the behaviors that is associated with internalizing behavior (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). This type of behavior is the opposite of externalizing behavior. Instead of and outward reflection of anger, internalizing directs anger at oneself personally (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). Matti was displaying an emotion of fear. She seemed to be afraid that she was going to be punished and she did not want that. I do not know what kind of punishment she receives at home, but if it is in line with permissive parenting then the parents would withdraw love until the child learns the lesson they are trying to teach (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). Just like when Matti was acting out in anger, now she was responding how she had been conditioned to. Children often learn patterns in their life and tend to respond the same way outside the home, that they have been trained to expect inside the home (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman,
Her demeanor changed into a very quiet and reserved state, which is very opposite from Matti’s normal personality. She was displaying one of the behaviors that is associated with internalizing behavior (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). This type of behavior is the opposite of externalizing behavior. Instead of and outward reflection of anger, internalizing directs anger at oneself personally (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). Matti was displaying an emotion of fear. She seemed to be afraid that she was going to be punished and she did not want that. I do not know what kind of punishment she receives at home, but if it is in line with permissive parenting then the parents would withdraw love until the child learns the lesson they are trying to teach (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014). Just like when Matti was acting out in anger, now she was responding how she had been conditioned to. Children often learn patterns in their life and tend to respond the same way outside the home, that they have been trained to expect inside the home (Martorell, Papalia, & Feldman,