During my virtual child I was faced with many questions regarding my parenting skills and how I would assist my child in her learning skills. I was asked about how much TV time she should have. If I should keep her reading grade-level books, and even if I wanted to get her involved in music, sports, arts, etc. Throughout these questions, I felt as though I was picking the correct ones and the ones that I think I would do as a parent myself. When my child was about to turn nine, a psychological report was done on her. Lennon Grace’s scores in word reading, reading fluency, spelling, and phonological awareness were above average for her age. The psychologist stated that she was friendly, calm, and cheerful while she was being examined during her IQ test. She even mentioned that even when the …show more content…
I also think she is considered gifted because starting at a young age I was showing her flash cards, reading, and watching educational shows. I believe that you can train your child’s memory and language at a young age if you introduce them to educational things such as flash cards with words, reading age-appropriate books, and watching educational shows that help them memorize and improve their language. Due to her being gifted she has some characteristics that are different of those who are not gifted. Gifted children are precocious, march to their own drum, and have a passion to master (Santrock, 2016). I have noticed as the parent that Lennon Grace tends to do her own thing when it came to learning. She very rarely asked me for help and wanted to figure out the problems herself. I noticed that she would come up with different ways to solve problems rather than sticking to what she was taught. She also was incredibly focused on what she was good
My virtual child experience began with the birth of Ivan Trejo. Throughout this journey I learned parents have great influence over their child before it’s brought into the world. For example, the biological parents determine their child’s genes that are passed down to them and the environment that impacts the child. With these factors in mind, it gave me a new perspective to parenting. I have adopted an authoritative parenting strategy to raise Ivan. Authoritative parents are parents who are firm, setting clear and consistent limits, but who try to reason with their child, giving explanation for why they should behave in a particular way. (Feldman, 2014). When raising Ivan, I made my decision based on previous encounters and positive results from authoritative strategies.
Bringing a child into the world can be a very exciting moment, filled with lots of emotion. However, raising that child will come with many responsibilities and decision making. It can be stressful as parents go through the ups and downs of raising a child, but it can also be a memorable experience as we watch our child go through various stages of development. I thought that being a parent would come with its obstacles, but that it would be an exciting experience to raise a child to adulthood. Every child has a temperament and certain characteristics that we as parents, have to adapt to. My Virtual Child, Jill, at first, was difficult to soothe down when upset, mostly cautious and shy when around new people, and has a secure attachment (My Virtual Child). Raising Jill, I had to make several adjustments due to my personal relationship with my spouse and the economy always changing. This had an effect on Jill’s development, but I always did what I felt was best for her. Jill was a quick learner at a young age; she scored above average or average for skills such as gross motor,
It has been shown that children are heavily influenced by their parents and the way they choose to raise their children. My Virtual Child gives people the opportunity to see the outcome of their child through the kind of parenting techniques they decided to use. With my virtual child, I employed an authoritative style of parenting, which means being involved while still allowing some independence, just as my parents have used on me. It was not until I saw the psychological analysis of my eight year old that I realized how much I had been influencing my child, Delilah. Her verbal, mathematical, and visual-spatial abilities are at an extraordinary level. All of these skills progressed to where they are because of Delilah’s interest and my encouragement.
Throughout the course of the class and completing the My Virtual Child assignment, I have been given new information in regards to childhood development through the lifespan. Starting with infancy, we had the opportunity to raise our own child online and test our parenting skills while applying the knowledge we learned from class. I believe this program has helped me grasp the concepts we learned in class and fully understand the different aspects of development throughout childhood.
The purpose of this assignment is to answer the questions in regards to the Virtual Child I raised up to the age of 8 months given specific scenarios to answer. This in turn, gave me a progress report of how my Virtual Child was doing through the Bayley Scales of Infant Intelligence and Observations at 9 months. I will answer how his eating, sleeping, and motor developmental patterns compares to the typical developmental patterns. I will also explain his classic temperance as well as his attachment relationships and any areas that might or might not have affected his attachment securities. I will refer to the Virtual Child as “Kieran” throughout this assignment to answer the above questions.
...e (My Virtual Child). Dominic is able to read a few short words, write his name and most of the letters in the alphabet. The results also mentioned that he is at an age appropriate level of phonological awareness and his language development is average in vocabulary and retelling a story (My Virtual Child). Cognitively, Dominic is not interested in little art projects and becomes frustrated when he works with blocks and shapes. Dominic is also behind mathematically when counting, identifying quantitative relationships and classifying objects (My Virtual Child). The parenting questionnaire suggests that we are slightly above average in affection and warmth; and we are in the top 15% concerning control and discipline.
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Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood as a kid sanctioned me to perpetually become aware that I was different from my neighbors. Through some social interactions with my friends in elementary schools, I quickly descried that my appearances, such as my hair, eyes, and nose was different from my peers. For instance, my hair was a lot darker than most of my peers’ hair and the texture of my hair was different from most of them. “Grow out your hair” were phrases that lingered throughout my childhood days, where I had my hair at a very short length. Throughout my childhood, I longed to try to be a part of the dominant group in society such as the Caucasians, but I did not do anything to be a part of the bigger group in society. Instead,
The topic of what happens to those that have, "never heard the good news of Jesus Christ" weighs extremely heavy on my heart. I work with Atheist, Muslim, Hindu and Pluralist in the technology field. Frequently I am attacked just for being a Christian. For a while it was scary to know that I have become a minority in my own country. Some how each time I am attacked I love these guys that much more. My Hindu friend really knew nothing about Jesus before he met me. At lunch one day he asked me about Christianity and I was able to share with him the good news. But for some reason he rebeled and believes the Bible is, "the greatest book of fiction ever created." If not for the revelation God provided about His Word in my second year of Bible school, I probably would be a pluralist myself. I really want everyone I share Jesus with to go to heaven and it use to be tempting to think God might make an exception. However, there is only
Gifted is defined as "children who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, artistic, creative, leadership capacity, or specific academic fields, and who require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop such capabilities. There is a biological difference between gifted kids. They have an increased cell production that will increase synaptic activity. This is what causes the added increase in thought production. There are many myths that surround the gifted community like "gifted students will be fine on their own", or "gifted students are happy, popular, and well adjusted in school." Some common characteristics shared between gifted boys and girls is that they are more adaptable, adventurous, and little tolerance for boredom. They need think periods, independence, and very self disciplined. "Typically, we associate giftedness in adults with high levels of achievements, but it is not that simple. In fact, the gifted person is as likely to be the high school rebel as they are to be the the valedictorian, CEO, or a Nobel prize winner." Some examples of famous gifted people are Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, Isaac Newton, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and many more. If a child shows signs of being gifted they should be tested by an official to prove and show their strengths. Testing is beneficial because it uses the child's full potential instead of just having it for themselves. As of 2006, the average of kids that are labeled as gifted in public elementary schools is 6.7% of the total student population. Being a gifted child has many pros and cons. After analysis of this comparison, it ...
I come from a household that watches the news often. It was a pattern that was embedded in our lifestyle when my family first fled famine and civil war in Somalia to come to America. Constantly being exposed to the news trained me to notice trends. One of the trends that I noticed was the unfair and dominant role race played in the criminal justice system. Although slavery was abolished with the thirteenth amendment. Many in America still believe that race does not play a prominent role in government, evident in the election of Barack Obama as president. However, the government still uses race as a justification for discrimination, which causes social animosity towards criminals. America’s current justice system allows for legal discrimination
Within chapter one, the virtual classroom observation video took place in a middle school setting. In this video, the teacher, Mark Diacopoulos, was teaching his students Social Studies. The first thing that stood out to me during this lesson was the fact that the Mr. Diacopoulos explained to the students the learning objectives of the lesson that they were doing. Even though I know that this is an important part in every lesson plan so that the students will understand what they are supposed to be learning, it is not something that is always included and it is often left out. I also noticed that Mr. Diacopoulos engaged the students in a varied of ways. First, he included everyone in the whole group discussion.
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When I graduate Liberty, I am going to be some excited to lead worship for a living. Ever since the 6th grade, I knew that God was calling me into ministry, especially the worship ministry. When I started to lead worship for my youth ministry and my school I felt always satisfied leading worship. While I was leading worship I knew that this is what God called me to and whenever I was given the opportunity lead I always took it, because I always loved to lead people into worship. Once I get a job as a worship pastor I know there will be some things that I never expected and struggles that come my way. One of the struggles that I think I’m going to face is doubting if I will ever be good enough.
When I was a young child I prayed the simple prayer to ask Jesus into my heart and be the Lord of my life. This began, obviously, with an elementary understanding of Christianity. As I continued to mature into adolescence, however, my faith changed along with me. Christianity became more than just knowing the answers in Sunday School, taking communion at church, or being able to flip to any Bible passage quickly – it was about developing a relationship with Christ and following His call in my life. As Peter preached concerning Jesus in Acts, “there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved,” (Acts 4:12). And, as is written in the book of Colossians, “as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”