...The primary focus of my Philosophy is based on the importance of social justice and equity in the child’s early years. I believe that each child should have the right to participate in the environment and to freely express his or her ideas and thoughts (Sims, 2009). Diverse human experiences are highly respected. It is crucial to involve their cultural backgrounds in the daily programming and planning as a step toward an inclusive environment. This would encourage the children to participate equally in their early childhood environment and to develop their sense of belonging (Burman, 2008). I believe that each child is valuable and unique and has his or her own points of strength. I see the children as competent and capable of making their...
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...Journey of my childhood The day gone is gone forever. This essay will discuss Firstly, about my childhood experience and how have I developed. Secondly, context in which my childhood were based on. Thirdly, factors that hindered my development and how did I overcame them. Fourthly, who influenced my development? Moreover, how did my parents, community, society, clan, tribe and extended relatives contribute towards my development? Furthermore, how my childhood has influenced me to date. And lastly what theoretical assumptions have I learnt. To begin with, I was born on 9th July 1994. Firstly, from birth I have been leaving with my nuclear family. My family included my Dad, Mom, Two brothers (one younger than me and one older than me) and me. My childhood experiences started at the place where my parents resided in at Tacirua 6 ½ miles Savutalele settlement. My childhood was very loving and interesting with lots of traditional occasions every year and fortunately I was raised up in a rural settlement where I had my extended families who leaved nearby in the same area. Secondly, I came from three religious background my Dad is a Hindu and my mom was a Muslim but as days went by lately in 2004 we (mom, two brothers and me) were converted to Christianity (LDS CHURCH) dad due to extended family commitment remained Hindu. This really did hinder my development as there was lots of disagreement from my dads’ family for religion change. But time did heal the situation as we received...
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...Esguerra, Denise B. PE 2 PG ST2 2014-27400 My Childhood Games As a child, nothing makes me happier than being told that I can play with my brothers after all my home work. Life was very simple back then; my favorite part of the day was winning hide and seek. Having parents who won’t allow us to go outside the house may sound like I had a very boring childhood; however, growing up with two brothers made it a whole different story. My brothers and I grew up with working parents, so we had a helper to take care of us. Also, our grandparents are also living with us when we were kids until now. To this, we weren’t really allowed to go outside because my parents were afraid that something bad might happen because they were not always at home. This was never a hindrance for my brothers and I to play games. Every after school, we would play hide and seek, taya-tayaan around the house and stop dance. I could also remember when my grandfather used to catch two spiders and put it on a stick. We would pick our spider and watch them fight each other. During holidays, we would have get-togethers and reunions, it was my favorite part of the program when we would play charades, pass the message, longest line, trip to Jerusalem and bring-me. These games were able to bring so much family spirit in us every time we have these simple and fun gatherings. I had a very simple childhood, it was not composed of playing outside the house and getting bruises because of different Philippine...
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...In the beginning of my childhood everything seemed pretty normal. I grew up in a two parent household with one older brother and one younger sister. Until one day, I noticed I was quite different from my siblings. I was not as talkative as they were or as friendly, but my mother told me that I have always been a quiet little girl, who did not reach out to anyone besides her. I personally did not think anything of it, but family members made it known that I was different. I became the outcast of the family, when people found out I had a learning disability that caused great shame to my self-esteem. I refused to identify as someone with a learning disability because I know the stereotype that goes along with the title. I did not want people thinking...
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...growing up I experienced an atypical childhood. When I was only three years old I was legally adopted by my grandparents. My grandmother became a mother at the age of sixty not by choice, but by necessity. My grandparents loved me very much and were willing to take on the task of raising me. Here is the story of my life. When I was a child, around the age of two, my childhood was not a perfect picture. My childhood was not like those of other children I knew. My biological parents were alcoholics and were always partying. My biological mother would always leave me with random babysitters so that she could go party. My real parents didn't take care of me and I was neglected. When my grandparents found out about the situation my...
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...Throughout my childhood and now my adulthood I have always seen myself as an individual that has a pretty decent temperament level. That was until I took the Buss and Plomin’s Temperament Scale, which changed my perspective of how I view my temperament. This scale analyzed my temperament based on three levels: activity, emotionality, and sociability. The emotionality scale is composed of three subcomponents, which are Distress, Fearful and Anger. Within this paper I will further explain my temperament scale scores based on Buss and Plomin’s Temperament Scale. My activity based on the Buss and Plomin’s Temperament Scale was a 16, which is relatively high based on the women’s average. This seems very accurate in relation to my adult life because I tend to always have a full schedule, and constantly trying to find more things to do. However, I’ve always been highly active even in my childhood because I would always want to play...
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... Kristen Weiss Reading and Writing Development As a future educator I believe that reading and writing is the utmost import thing in a child’s education. Without these two skills a child will not be able to succeed in school. For my essay, I chose two age groups that I want to teach; middle childhood, ages six through ten, and early adolescence, ages ten through 14. The reason I chose these two developmental ages is because I believe that children enjoy learning; they are like sponges, always trying to absorb as much as possible. The reading development in middle childhood children and early adolescent childhood children seem somewhat different. Middle childhood children start by identifying letters and matching letters with individual sounds, knowing what a word is, and interpreting spaces and punctuation are the earliest building blocks for reading skills (www.education.com). Early adolescent childhood children, usually do not have an issue with reading; they can identify vocabulary words in a book and sound out the words. Children of this stage usually enjoy reading. Writing skills for both middle and early adolescent children develop in the same way as their reading skills. Middle childhood children are more focused on what they are writing, their spelling, spacing, punctuation, and coherence has improved (www.education.com). As for the early adolescent children, you can understand what they write, their words are spelled correctly and are...
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...Psychology II-B CHILDHOOD Childhood is the ages of period from birth to adolescence. In other words we can say that Childhood is earlier part of life which cannot come again. This part of age full of happiness and free from tensions. We explain childhood in few steps. First is “Early Childhood” Second is “Middle Childhood” and Third is “Adolescence”. Approximately “Early Childhood” is the age of early three years of childhood. In this stage when every child need complete attention of his parents for basic learning. Next is, “Middle Childhood” stage in which every child starts his journey from primary school. In primary school where child learn new skills and they are able to make friends. Last stage of childhood is “Adolescence”, In simple words we can say that a duration in which a young person grow from a child into an adult. The day gone is gone forever. Only memories remain in human mind. These memories make cry sometimes and make laugh sometimes. Nevertheless, we never can cut out them from life. For that reason, childhood memories are the sweetest in man’s life. I have also some childhood memories in my life. Childhood memories are the sweetest time of human mind. My childhood memories are not les sweet. Nobody can forget his/her childhood memories whether pleasant or painful. I can still remember my childhood very much. I was born in Angeles City where I passed my childhood. Many things happened in my childhood days, but I cannot remember all of them. My father was a self-employed...
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...For my middle childhood observation I chose a 10 year old female by the name of Mycah Landry. Just to give you a bit of a background, Mycah attends a magnet school and makes straight A’s. She is a very smart young girl. We will start off by comparing Mycah’s physical development to that of Berger’s in the text. As documented in the text “Unlike infants or adolescents, school-age children’s growth is slow and steady. Self-care is easy –from brushing their new adult teeth to dressing themselves, from making their own lunch to walking to school. In these middle years, children depend less on their families and do not yet need to cope with the body changes and impulses of adolescence. Muscles become steadily stronger.” From my observation I gathered that Mycah is a very independent individual. She is the middle child, and the only girl so she has a nurturing side to her and wants to take care of both of her brothers. She is able to dress herself, clean, and cook simple meals. Berger goes on to discuss health problems in middle childhood. Asthma was one of the topics covered in the text and coincidently, Mycah has suffered from asthma. Simply put, asthma can be defined as a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that makes breathing difficult. Of course she uses an inhaler as needed to cope with her asthma, but according to her parents she also had to get steroid injections at one point because her asthma attacks would become more frequent. Now that her asthma is under control...
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...many times in my dream. When I plan the trip of Seattle with my girlfriend, the Mountain Rainer is actually do not in it. My girlfriend is a totally foodie, so the plan of trip is surround by many famous restaurants. Seattle is a good place for living, the commodity prices is not too high, and people are not rush for life. If it compare with some other same size city, I would like choosing live in Seattle. In the third day of trip, I saw a snowcap when I stood in front of my hotel’s window. It looks like the Qilian Mountain in my hometown. My girlfriend also like it, so we did some quick search in Google, and made a simple plan for travel to the Mountain Rainer. When I drive about three hours, my car enter into a straight road, which I can saw the snowcap more and more clearly. The Mountain Rainer is like a glamour girl stood in there very calm. I was completely charmed by her beaut. I stop my car in a rest area of national park, and walk in a trail. There are many high trees in the foot of mountain, and I can hear flow of water. Everything was quiet, and the fresh air wash over my face with little rain. The environment surround me makes me felt same with home. There is no modern building in there, only the original nature. Human, animal and nature are very harmony. I like the taste that mixes rain and soil. I feel the taste can help to clear my soul. It makes me feel went back to my childhood. When I was young, my uncle usually took me in the forest near by my hometown, and...
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...During Middle Childhood, how do we train little girls to be girls and little boys to be boys? Do you think this is wrong? Why or why not? During middle childhood is where they are exposed more to gender identify and gender stereotyping (Berk 2002, p. 501). Girls wear pink and purple, wear dresses, play with dolls and play house. Girls are taught to be more the nurturing type, they are more emotional and comforting and are the protector. Boys are more physical and aggressive in play than girls; boys play with cars and truck and boys engage more in rough and tumble play. Gender behaviors from children helps set the self-perception in gender role identity, what I mean by that is, and girls imitate feminine behavior and label themselves as feminine. Boys begin doing the same thing by identifying themselves as masculine. I think as children move through middle childhood, for the most part, I think they begin to learn and understand what gender stereotyping is, and that you should not be limited to a certain job because you are male or female. I remember when I was growing up that is was not okay for boys to play with dolls or playhouse and girls were not to play rough or play to physical. Honestly, I think it is fine that boys play with dolls, you can pretend to feeding, bathing, change pretend diapers, I see nothing wrong with that at all. It is all about pretending and using your imagination. I know...
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...“An American Childhood” Reader’s Response Many details in Annie Dillard’s “An American Childhood” suggest that the author is retelling the events of an early childhood experience from the viewpoints of herself as an adult. Ms. Dillard’s essay uncovers the differences between how adults and children view the world and seek happiness. However, there are a couple points to this essay. It seems as though, one of the author’s main points was to convey the message that some of the simplest moments in her life were also the happiest and most memorable. For example, she says, “I got in trouble throwing snowballs, and have seldom been happier since”. Also, I noticed that the author seemed to be motivated to inspire readers to chase life’s experiences passionately until one is satisfied. In the essay the author uses two rhetorical modes: narration and description. Ms. Dillard uses narration to describe her perspective of what it was like to be a child in America. In addition to using narration she also describes the intricate details of that particular winter day “Six inches of new snow had just fallen. We were standing up to our boot tops in snow on a front yard trafficked Reynolds Street slowly and evenly; they were targets all but wrapped in red ribbons, cream puffs.” (91). In relation to the unit theme: The shaping of Identity this writing piece uses an autobiographical narrative and flashback writing techniques to portray the American Childhood. Ms. Dillard’s perspective of...
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...University of Phoenix PSY/375 Kamika York May 11, 2015 All human lives are based on what happens from infancy throughout early childhood. There are different levels of teaching and experiences that are built upon as development occurs. Infancy and early childhood development is a part of a crucial production of their lives. The development that forms their foundation for the absorbing of information and the security of a child. There are positive and negative attributes that can affect the key functions one could endure or be subjected to pre-delivery and post-delivery. The negative influence can call a halt in the progression of development. Family dynamics, and parenting styles are direct key influences over the child’s life. The parenting styles will contribute greatly in support in areas like socially, culturally, physically, and mentally. Understanding what parenting style you depict, will cause you to be aware of the effectiveness of the style toward the promotion of among criteria and cognitive development of a child Effect of Families on Development The family’s role on the effects of a child’s growth has more influence on a child’s development from the very early stages of life. Children develop better in a more supportive environment where the families are consistent, observant, and sensitive. Families are in charge of providing critical factors during infancy, such as a supportive comfort, love, facial cueing, interaction, and communication skills...
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...for young adults to understand to think responsibly and make mature decisions. Physical development changes within young adulthood bring acne, voice change, hair growth within the pelvic area, enlargement of the internal and external reproductive organs, and breast enlargement. Social development within young adulthood brings personality development which allocates a strong desire for the adolescence to be socially independent by obtaining the following employment, car, housing etc. The principal’s values, morals and respect are needed for young adults to effectively and responsibly evaluate circumstances to determine a plausible decision of what’s right and wrong. Respect is a principal that should have been taught during childhood, however it’s critically that one adult have been instilled with this element because if fosters with how to be considerate and thoughtful towards themselves, others and situations. Discipline is also a critical factor as well this concept aids young adults how to appropriately conduct themselves within hostile circumstances and within society. There are also various theories within the changes of adulthood to name as few psychologists Erikson, Piaget and Kohlberg proposed the following stages for developmental changes within adulthood. Psychologist Erikson proposed a theory within the early 60’s eight definite stage of development. Within each stage Erikson concludes that people will experience challenges and the consequences...
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..."Kids on Stage" with my 2-year-old. I had to act out "tiger," so I got down on all fours and roared. He laughed, so I roared even louder, which only made him laugh more. Eventually he came up to me, patted my head and said "kitty kat" with benevolent condescension. This perfectly sums up my status in the animal pack of mothers defined by Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." There are the fierce tigers who churn out child prodigies, and then there are the pussycats who waste their afternoons playing useless board games and get bested by their own toddlers. In pretty much every way, I am the weak-willed, pathetic Western parent that Ms. Chua describes. My children go on playdates and sleepovers; in fact I wish they would go on more of them. When they give me lopsided, hastily drawn birthday cards, I praise them as if they were Matisse, sometimes with tears in my eyes. (Ms. Chua threw back one quickly scribbled birthday card, saying "I reject this," and told her daughters they could do better.) My middle son is skilled at precisely the two extracurricular activities Ms. Chua most mocks: He just got a minor part in the school play as a fisherman, and he is a master of the drums, the instrument that she claims leads directly to using drugs (I'm not sure if she is joking or not). I would be thrilled, of course, if my eldest child made it to Carnegie Hall at 14, which is the great crescendo of the Chua family story (although I would make sure to tell my other two children...
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