Once you have raised your virtual child through age 5, respond thoroughly to the following questions.
1. Describe your child’s language and cognitive development throughout early childhood. Discuss how his/her language and cognition has affected interactions with you by giving specific examples. Olivia has always seemed to be ahead in her language abilities, such as in vocabulary and in advanced thinking skills of creating sentences and understandings of what someone is asking. At three years old, Olivia scored above average in her skills of language comprehension and production. She could tell a detailed story about a picture, in which we thought we could continue to help her develop by reading aloud at home, talking about
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3. Describe any behavioral or emotional problems your child experienced during early childhood. Why do you think the problem(s) occurred and what did you do about them? At the age of three, Olivia was having emotional outbursts, such as temper tantrums, when she did not get what she wanted at stores or local restaurants, which was so embarrassing. I really wanted to start to go to family-style, more elegant restaurants, but I did not know if she was going to break into an outburst during dinner. So we could only go to fast food-style restaurants for the longest time. She would never sit still and would become squeamish and loud during dinner. After some time, an event changed the way she was acting. My husband and I were having an argument about something, and Olivia witnessed it. She began to cry as my husband walked out the door and she thought he was running away. After reassuring her that he would never run away from her, she started to act better and began to listen to our requests of how we wanted her to behave, with stricter rules. She might have also had some emotional issues, since she was shy and reluctant to be a leader in a group. I witnessed this when some of the other children were pushing her around, since she always was real passive in certain situations. So to fix this emotional deficit, my partner and I started to have play-dates at our house, where other children could come over and play with
1) Q: You are starting to notice that Preslee's crying is rhythmic and moderately loud when she is hungry, wet, or cold. If she is startled, there is a sudden intake of breath and a loud wail, followed by more deep breaths and loud wails. A: You try to respond to the different types of crying by changing, feeding, or soothing little Preslee.
Raising a Virtual Child had been a great experience for me. This assignment made me better understand why adolescents are the way they are. I had my own expectation before the onset of this project, how my virtual child was going to be at age of 18? I was expecting that my child would be a successful and obedient one. She would be nice and polite, follow rules and will be good in education. For me, while raising a child, bonding between child and parents is an important factor to consider. It makes child feel secure and let know that his/her parents are there to look after their needs. Communication between parent and child is important too. It will provide a great scenario for learning and aid in cognitive development. Discussing problem with parents and finding a solution is the best way to go during the childhood. I think parenting is not that much hard as it seems but is absolutely a sensitive and responsible task to raise a child. I had enjoyed raising my virtual child and hope my feedback is going to be a good one too.
When communicating with children, a number of skills need to be demonstrated to communicate effectively. Children learn to communicate through the responses of others, if they feel they have not had there contributions valued they are less likely to initiate communication themselves appropriate responses reinforce the child’s self-esteem, values this is important in building relationships initiating conversations and finding out the answers to questions builds on the language skills that are integral to child’s learning. In the setting working with children with
The term language means to understand a range of signs, symbols and gestures used to communicate and express themselves for example a child smiling or frown or waving their hand. Language can come in two ways expressive and understanding. Expressive language means describing objects, building sentences and following rules of grammar so things make sense. Understanding means processing and making sense of what people are saying and understanding words that are being spoken. In my setting children will tend to follow the understanding language as they might just about to begin to understand and process simple things e.g. sitting down, standing up.
3.1 Describe how communication with children and young people differs across different age ranges and stages of development
The virtual child stimulation is an online program that offers students a feel of what it is like to raise a child and make parenting-decisions concerning that child. Students also learn about the situations that occur in the three main life stages, and see how their decisions determine how their child will turn out. The focus of this assignment will be on my virtual child, Jason, the problems that occurred in the life stages, and the options I chose when raising Jason.
With what I have learned from the My Virtual Child program, I now understand the complexities of raising and guiding a child. Mere decisions made during infancy can affect a child long term, physically, cognitively, and even emotionally. To make important developmental decisions cannot simply be classified as a challenge, it is one of the hardest things parents experience. Making decisions for one’s self, as opposed to making decisions for one’s child is so challenging that most people will not understand until they have children. Even with the realistic impression this program has, I would venture to say that even
“My Virtual Child” was a web based assignment on raising a child based on real life scenarios and answering questions that you are expected to answer as a real parent would. My assignment this time starts with Link being 9 years old. At 9 Link began to consume allot of food. Eating and snacking up to 9 times a day, I knew this was normal for his age. Most boys at 12 grow about 4 inches in height and put on 26 pounds every year once they begin puberty (Rogol, Roemmich, & Clark, 2002). We did our best to guide him into a healthy lifestyle, eating healthy and nutritious foods along with encouraging him to continue with the swim and water polo teams. Because he stuck with his sports as he got older, he received a full ride scholarship right out of high school.
My Virtual Child, Violet is at Preconventional Level. During the preconventional level mortality is externally controlled. Meaning mortality is based on the opinions of authority figures. Behaviors that result in punishment are viewed as bad, those that lead to rewards are good. For example, “During a trip to a competition, students from one of the vocal groups at Violet's school stole some trinkets from a store and they were caught. They were suspended from school. Violet agrees with the punishment because they did not live up to the expectations of their parents, their coach or their teammates.” (My Virtual Child, 2014) I brought up laws of society (e.g., against shoplifting) However, Violet could not get past the weight of violating other’s
As children grow and mature they pass through several stages of development. Consequently it is important that teachers understand these developmental stages in order to be an effective teacher. This paper will analyze answers from five open ended questions asked of five children of varying ages to clarify changes in development at various ages. According to Robert E. Slavin “as children improve their cognitive skills, they are also developing self-concepts, ways of interacting with others, and attitudes toward the world” (Slavin, 2012). The five questions used for the interview
According to Piaget, language development is related to cognitive development, that is, the development of the child’s thinking determines when the child can learn to speak and what the child can say.
• Discuss how early childhood education has evolved and its impact on cognitive development in early childhood.
Child development is the foundation upon which early childhood practice is based. Because the psychomotor, socioemotional, cognitive, and linguistic developmental domains are inter-related, early childhood professionals in all types of programs (e.g., family child care homes, early childhood education centers) must comprehend both the processes of development and the adult’s role in supporting each child’s growth, development, and learning. (p. 1)
Children rely heavily on the input of their surrounding environments to develop these skills further (Eileen Allen & Marotz, 2003). The communication strategy used by children over the first year of life is predominately non-verbal before development progresses to include verbal communication (Rodnick & Wood, 1973). McDevitt and Ormrod (2010) suggest social emotional, physical and cognitive development is facilitated by the experiences children have in their “family, school and community” (p. 5). This raises the idea that the level of communicative development may differ greatly between children depending on experiential exposure. Rodnick and Wood (1973) expand on this further suggesting children will actually develop a level of grammatical and language understanding which is essential to communication, long before they commence schooling. In research conducted by Rodnick and Wood (1973) it was noted in their findings that the children subject to their research demonstrated a lower level of communication than expected at around the age of seven and suggest it may be due to environmental factors. This then draws some attention to the educator and their ability to teach a developing child not only the importance of communication, but also the skills of appropriate and effective communication.
From a baby 's first word to their first complete sentence, there 's a lot to debate with their language development. The average child has a vocabulary of up to six-thousand words by the time they turn five years old (Brighthubcom, 2016). Language development is one of the most critical roles for an educator in both early childhood and primary settings. It is this ability of language development that is particularly interesting in the nature vs nurture debate. In order for educators to provide effective communication, it is important that they have the knowledge and understanding of the four key concepts of language, such as phonological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic development and the underlying theoretical perspectives that explain the processes of language acquisition and development.