Toddler

As my new role as assistant director, I will be supporting the infant and toddler teachers. Because I frequently visit and greet my tiniest friends daily, I have become a familiar face. I look forward to introducing them to our studio/multi -purpose room this fall, to explore new learning situations, challenges and materials. When I am with the infant and toddler rooms I often clean off a table, or sweep a floor, or pitch in any other capacity if needed when I am helping my colleagues. These,…

Nothing felt the same. Just when I thought my life was going downhill, it plummeted deeper than my toddler brain could have ever imagined. Alexa decided to leave nursing school and go the University of Southern California to major in occupational therapy. I was crushed. At the age of four, I felt alone and helpless. My younger sister, a year and nine months…

For many years child beauty pageants have been part of the American community, likely why so many parents think these pageants are appropriate for children. Today, approximately 5,000 beauty contests are being held annually across the nation, with about 250,000 participants (Casstevens). However, as the popularity of the pageant industry increases, fewer parents are questioning the safety of their children. Child beauty contests try to show the public that the girls are having fun dressing up as…

I had every intention of this blog post being a beauty one, I promise. I have my divine Charlotte Tilbury Sculpting Duo perched next to me, sparkling, perfectly poised to be photographed (and raved about for that matter). But after sitting here for fifteen precious nap-time minutes with my fingers lingering over the keys, while my tea slowly becomes undrinkable, I just can’t muster the motivation or passion to write about make up. I feel like I want to write something, but something that isn’t…

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Penelope Eckert is a linguistics and anthropology professor at Stanford University (736). Sally McConnell-Ginet is an emeritus linguistics professor at Cornell (736). They argue children learn gender by a certain age, and they assert that American culture is deeply rooted in the gender dichotomy in “Learning to Be Gendered”. We are born biologically male or female; that 's what our chromosomes say. Whether they are XX or XY we are born that way. However, biological sex and gender are different.…

Child observations provide us with the hand on experience necessary to succeed and understand the material. The purpose of this observation was to apply what we have read about in the book such as children’s physical, cognitive, language and psychosocial development. We are left to apply the theories and subjects discussed within the text. For this observation, I observed Bruce, a 15 month old, at the Napa Valley College Child Development Center on February 29, 2016 at eleven in the morning.…

Beauty pageants are essentially a form of child abuse. Forcing children to continue to participate in pageants even though it is evident that they are not enjoying it for the sake of gratification for the parents or financial gain is ethically immoral and a form of abuse. Some parents believe that they are providing healthy competition for their children and that since it is not physically harming them, then it is not a form of abuse. However, when parents coax children to do something the…

Emotional Development Birth to Three Erickson refers to this stage as the “trust versus mistrust” in this stage it is essential for the infant to find consistency, predictability, reliability in their parents (Crain, 2011). Children that have developed this trust are able to allow their parents to leave with being upset for a long period of time, however infants are sometimes upset but when the parent is gone the caregiver is able to sooth the child quickly. This time frame is also when some…

Jensen’s Freakout Over Christmas break I watched my nephew Jensen a lot. He lives about a quarter mile away from me, and his mother, my sister, works from around eight in the morning to three in the afternoon, so she needed somebody to watch him and it was convenient for me to be that person. Jensen is almost three years old, but he has something I never had as a child...dentophobia. Dentophobia is a fear of dentists and being at the dentist's office. I had no clue of his fear, until it was…