Child prodigy

“Race you!” comes a high pitched squeal of a young child heading towards their parent’s car at a shopping mall parking lot. The joys of playing a game and competing with everyone around comes naturally to children. In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” author Jessica Statsky argues that participation in competitive team sports is damaging to a developing child. In contrast, the paper “Children’s Development Through Sports Competition: Derivate, Adjustive, Generative, and Maladaptive…

household in order to wake the children up on time and prepare breakfast and lunch for the day, all to have her child ready on time. Meanwhile, the mother may have little time to tend to herself before she sets off on the road to send her child to daycare and herself to work. The working mother may be in question of whether it is appropriate or not to work and utilize a daycare to tend to the child. I often volunteer at Nashville…

The antecedent was Mrs Jennings telling Chloe, a Year 2 child she had previously warned me was 'problematic, ' that she had to be on her best behaviour since she would be changing phonics groups that day. Chloe behaved negatively by vocally expressing her displeasure, throwing her phonics book at the teacher, and hiding in the corner. As consequence for her…

Maturity varies on what a child is exposed to and the environment that they grow up in. As they enter adulthood, these age appropriate values tend to follow suit. Experts say that parents often have to do with these results, Joseph Lao is amongst these experts. “Effective parents are skilled at providing home environments that nurture maturity in their children. They set appropriate examples, provide age appropriate standards and hold their children accountable to those standards” (Lao,…

My lesson plan supports individual learning needs because I give all the children a chance to create, explore and manipulate all different types of materials. By doing this I can be sure to help each one build up on their needs and weaknesses. Plus, while I am doing this I can see what changes need to be made to my curriculum, environment and with my community. In my center, we provide high quality care to all children of all different races, colors and ethnicity. There are so many things to…

Television, Friend or Foe Television has been around for while and it honestly I can say it is still a fundamental item in most families around the world. Even though television has change over time, I believe that families have learned the advantages and disadvantages of having this type of technology at home. According to the article “Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood” by Joshua Meyrowitz, the author states how the television has affected the relationship between parents and…

noticed that Shanah and another caregiver were in the room. Some of the older children were already in the room and one girl was in the rocking chair as she was tired. When I sat down in the small inner part of the room, I noticed that the 1 ½ year old child was playing on toy pony that was blue. After the children went outside in the playarea, I interviewed the director of the program. Throughout this paper, I will talk about what I observered in my second observation and what I learned from my…

where it is at the eye level of the child and it is also reachable for the child/ accessable for the children. It was a cozy room with soft carpets and furnatures. The room has full of exploring things to do once the child steps in. What is your classroom doing well? The room was orgainzed with centers such listening, writing, math, art, home center, block center and more. these center are well oerganize in small boxes with label or the materials are visable for child to take…

In Lisa Delpit’s book “Other People’s Children” there was many conflicts mentioned throughout the chapters. One that really stood out to me was the idea of standards and believing in each child the same no matter what gender, race, or culture. That is something I will do as a teacher and it is also really important in the success of each student. In the introduction scene one there was an interacting between Lisa and a young teacher named Carolyn about a black student in her kindergarten…

What is puberty may you ask? Puberty is a period of time when individuals reach sexual maturity, and then become capable to reproducing. This time of change in your life is something everyone goes through. During these times of hormonal and bodily change, girls begin to ponder sex, love, marriage, and maybe even children. Some even begin to feel like a totally different person, in a totally different body. Many girls become more self-conscious during this time in their lives, while others get…