Description
For this assignment, you will observe a young child. Please choose a child between the ages of 2 and 5 years old.
Then, complete the following steps:
1) Before you begin your assignment you must:
- Discuss this assignment with the child’s parent.
- Inform the parent that you are not observing the child from the position of an expert.
- Explain that you are a Lifespan Development student and are merely observing the child for a class assignment.
- Tell the parent that you will not be using the child’s name in the report.
2) Observe the child for at least 1 hour.
- You may not babysit or observe a child in your work setting.
- You must try to stay as detached from the child’s interactions as possible! Kids are naturally curious, so it is fine to let them know what you are doing. But the less attention you give them, the less interest they will have in you. :)
3) Record any data related to the following domains:
- Physical development
- Estimate weight/height
- Gross motor skills
- Fine motor skills
- Other physical characteristics or activities
- Cognitive Development
- Langauge use
- Creativity
- Decision making
- Judgment
- Social Emotional Development
- Emotions (positive/negative and how handled)
- Psychosocial stage (you must include this for full credit in this area)
- Social interactions
- Self-Concept
- Temperament
- Cultural Influences
- Parenting practices
- Multiple languages
- Gender roles
4) Write a narrative report of what you observed of the child. Use complete sentences and paragraphs. In your report:
- Introduction with child’s demographic information (age, gender, family arrangement - if known, and/or identify primary caregivers)
- State that you received permission to complete the observation
- Discuss observations and divide into sections based on
- Physical domains
- Cognitive domains
- Social/emotional domains
- Cultural influences
Be sure to use formal, clinical, development language in your report. The more specific vocabulary you use, the better!
The paper should be no less than 3 pages and double spaced. You do not need in-text citations for this assignment, as you will be writing about your observation and simply including vocabulary from the book.
Have fun!
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: CHILD OBSERVATION
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Child Observation
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CHILD OBSERVATION
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The child just turned five years at the beginning of 2018. The gender of the child is
male. The family arrangement included the mother who is in her late twenties, a father who is
about thirty years old and a brother who is about eleven months old. A nanny has been hired
as the primary caregiver since both parents work fulltime jobs. However, during the
weekends, the parents will act as the child's carers.
I managed to discuss the assignment with the mother of the child informing her that I
was not going to observe the child as an expert but as a student studying Lifespan
Development. I told her that the observation was part of a class assignment. The next
information I presented was the fact that the name of the child would not be used in the
report. With that in mind, the mother gave me consent to observe her child for about five
hours in her home for the class assignment.
Physical Development
From the observation, I gathered that the child is about twenty Kilograms. The child's
height lies between 40 to 43 inches. When it come...
