Personal Narrative: My Virtual Childhood Development

Virtual Child has been an incredible learning tool especially when it comes to all the different milestones children achieve throughout their life. The most important childhood developments are their sleeping, health, eating, and motor development. My own virtual child, Delilah, experiences all of these adaptions that a usual child at eighteen months would up to that point. At the age of eighteen months, her sleeping and eating have regulated to the point where she gets regular sleep and enjoys trying new foods. Her health and motor development needed steady work but now has progressed. All of her behaviors are based off my choices as a parent and by comparing her to the average child I can see if she meets the typical patterns of development through the first eighteen months. With this in mind, the first thing I noticed that changed with Delilah was her sleep. When she was three months old, her sleep pattern was six hours a night with three two-hour blocks during the day. Santrock (2016, p.104) explains that an infant requires up to sixteen or seventeen hours per day and included research that states that 12.8 out of 24 hours are what infants from birth to two years of age sleeps on …show more content…
The most progressive changes happen with sleeping, health, eating, and motor development. Virtual Child is an online system that allows any person to create a baby and make decisions that will affect its behavior. I have personally seen these changes with my own virtual child, Delilah. After watching her for eighteen months, I realized her sleeping and eating both stabilized into what is considered normal for a child that age. Also, her health and motor development were exactly where they needed to be for eighteen months. I am overjoyed that as a parent I am making the right decisions for my child and she is progressing into what is described as typical development