Childhood Observation

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The observation took place indoor at my relative 's house. I went to observe the child on Tuesday at 12:00 in the morning. When you first enter the house and walk through the hallway, you will see that the kitchen is on the right side and the dining table on the left. After passing the kitchen and dining table, you will see that the living room connects to the back-yard. The living room 's walls had multiple picture frames and decoration pieces hanging along with a brown color clock. Moreover, the living room had dark green sofa 's, television, a coffee table and variety of toys that include a white writing board, a box of legos, soft toys, barbie dolls, kitchen sets, play house, books, ball, building blocks and a blue color table along with …show more content…

Due to the fact that, when she was eating the rice sitting on the dining table, but she suddenly got up from the table, started walking towards the living room, grabed her barbie dolls and started feeding them. Moreover, not only she was pretending to drink from the toy cup while playing with the kitchen set, but, also was pretending to talk on the toy phone as she saw her mother talking to someone on her cell phone. These are the example of make-believe play because according to book “Make-believe play increases in sophistication during the preschool years. Children pretend with less realistic toys [such as] in early pretending, toddlers use … toy telephone to talk into or a cup to drink from. Their earliest pretend acts usually imitate adualt 's actions” (Berk, 227). The theory that perfectly relates to these examples is Piaget 's theory because Berk in the book infer that “Make-believe play is … excellent example of the development of representation in early childhood. Piaget believed that through pretending, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes” (Berk, …show more content…

After she failed to put on her shoes, she ran toward her mother for help, but her mother showed how to wear a similar shoe in her own feet and then asked Khushi to try wearing the shoe again by herself. This is an example of Ericson 's theory because one of the stage of his theory of psychosocial development explains that in early childhood, parents allow their childrens to become independent and explore the limits of their abilities such as helping them put on their cloths and shoes by themselves (Berk, 256). Another example of emotional development that I noticed while observing was when Khushi 's mother turn on television and starts watching a serial. Due to the fact that, Khushi left all of her toys, walked towards the TV, and stood nearby as she saw a baby crying on the TV. This is an example of emotional development because according to the book “As with infants and toddlers, preschoolers who experience negative emotion intensely find it harder to shift attention away from disturbing events and inhabit their feelings” (Berk,

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