Hattie's Microsystem
The Microsystem is the innermost level of the environment; it consists of activities and interaction patterns in the child's immediate surroundings. This system is all about Hattie and who affects her in a positive way, such as her immediate family, child-care center or school, and her neighborhood play area. With Hattie herself, she needs a lot of support and encouragement, and she has individuals who do that for her. While looking at the microsystem first, we can see that she has a lot of relationships with different people. For instance, her mother and father, her grandparents, her family from both her mom's and dad's side, her baby doctor, her daycare and music teacher, and friends she plays with that is close to her age. All of these individuals play a significant part in Hattie's daily life, and she has many people she can count on even
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through the good and bad experiences that she will face in her life. I must say, Hattie has an excellent support system that will walk along with her throughout her life. One thing that I found while watching the movie is when her parents would read to her, and they would ask her what these animals sound like. For example, her mom asked what a cow says, and her dad asked her what an elephant says. By her parents reading to her and working with her builds a solid foundation for her learning skills.
Next, we have the Mesosystem. The mesosystem encompasses the connection between the microsystem, such as home, school, neighborhood, and child-care center. This system contains linkages and interrelationships to two or more people who are in the microsystem that help Hattie. These people work together for Hattie to continue to grow and positively influence her. For this system to efficiently work, her parents need to have excellent communication with her caregiver and music teacher, need to have parent-child interaction, which means good communication and co-parenting between mom and dad, parents-grandparents. All of these are an essential part of Hattie's developmental level because they all work together. For example, Hattie was doing yoga exercises on her tummy. If Hattie's parents have excellent communication with her teacher, then her teacher can show her parent's how to do this so that way Hattie can be doing this at home as well. Another example, Hattie goes to music class with one of her parents. If her parents have great communication with her music teacher, her teacher could show her parents some more songs and movements that they could be doing outside of class at home. By these people working together, it is an excellent impact on Hattie because she is getting the care she needs.
Furthermore, we have the Exosystem. This system consists of social settings that do not contain children, but that nevertheless affect children's experiences in immediate settings. This deals with Hattie's parents' workplaces, their religious institution, community health and welfare services, and friends and extended families. This system is all about whether these people will work together that will help benefit Hattie the most. Will the parents' workplaces work with a flexible schedule? Let one of the parents' take sick leave if Hattie is sick one day. Also, will extended family help Hattie's parents if they are in need of money? All of this is something to think about when it comes to Hattie's sack because it can negatively hurt her. In the movie, it showed that Hattie was sick and her mom was taking care of her. As I was watching, I was wondering if Hattie's mom's boss lets her have the day off to care for Hattie while she did not feel good. Also, in the video, it showed that Hattie's grandparents are in her life, so I was wondering if Hattie's parents could count on the grandparents if one day they are in need of financial assistance. This system is vital for Hattie because it is whether she gets the care she needs. All of these people are part of her life, even though she is not an active participant, but it still negatively affects her at times.
Lastly, we have the Mesosystem. This system consists of cultural values, laws, customs, and resources. As I was watching the movie, I could see that Hattie had a great life, and she had everything she needed to help her grow to her developmental level. She had a lovely home to live in, had active parents and grandparents, went to a quality-care daycare and music class. For some of her toys, Hattie had a farmhouse set; she had an Evenflo Doorway Jumper to help with her gross motor skills. As we can see, Hattie was very fortunate with the things she had and where she lived in. Some of the other children in the video were not so lucky and did not have the items Hattie had. From where Hattie lived in and the things she had, I would say her family was economically stable because of the nice things she had. For example, her stroller that you would use when going bicycling, and having a hot tub.
Now we move on to Ponijao who is from Namibia. The reason why I chose family, poverty, and nutrition because I thought these three really explained who Ponijao was and where he grew up at because they pertain to him more.
For the family, the reason why I chose this one is because family is all Ponijao had growing up and that was who raised him.
His mom was a significant part of his life because she raised him and gave him the loved he needed, although, they did not have much with, to begin with. Growing up all he had was his mom, siblings, and maybe even that other mom who was in the movie. Also, it was heartbreaking to see that he did not have a father figure in his life. “Within the family, children learn the language, skills, and social and moral values of their culture” (Berk, pg. 68). As we see throughout the whole movie, the family was a big part in Ponijao life because of where they lived in Namibia, and all they had was the hut they lived in and the animals that lived around them. I loved that his mom was always by his side and guiding him the best way she could, and I love that his older siblings guided him along as well because they knew his mom could not do it all by herself. So, we can thank his mom for teaching him about their culture, and show him how to survive in their world through his physical and cognitive
development.
Next, we have poverty because Ponijao did not have much growing up except the things his mother provided him. From watching the movie, we could tell that they did not have much money or belongings because no one in the family wore clothing, the mothers were the only ones who really had shoes, and those were flip-flops, and the children never wore diapers because of where they lived. Because of them living in Namibia, the mothers would get bugs off their children by using her teeth and spitting it out. So, it was sad to see that they had no way of protecting their children from the bugs they have. Also, if they needed to travel somewhere, they would have to walk by foot with their children on their backs, so these mothers could walk for miles just to get where they needed to go. “Poverty rates climb to 32 percent for Hispanic children, 34 percent for Native-American children, and 38 percent for African American children” (Berk, pg. 73). By looking at the statistics, it is heartbreaking to see that African Americans are the majority of living in poverty just because of where they live in the world and not having the means to meet their children’s needs. Even though his family lived in Namibia, Ponijao was always a happy kid and was living his best life even though he did not have proper food, a bed, clothes on his back and shoes on his feet, and children toys for him to play with. On the other hand, it was sad to see the difference between his life and Hattie’s life.
Lastly, we will talk about nutrition because for him living in another country; it is hard for these children to get the nutrition that they need because they cannot afford it or they do not have it where they live. For Ponijao, the only nutrition that he gets is him being breastfed by his mother, and usually, these children are breastfed until they are about three or four years’ old because that is the only nutrition that they can give to their children. “Nutrition is especially crucial for development in the first two years because the baby’s brain and body are growing so rapidly” (Berk, pg. 171). So, if his mother stopped breastfeeding him, he would start to form malnutrition because of him having a diet low in all essential nutrients, and his body weight changing for the worst. It is heartbreaking to see when families cannot give their children enough nutrition to where they form malnutrition, and eventually die from it. In fact, it can cause their physical and cognitive development to change as well and start to lose what they used to do because of it. I was very thankful to see how much his mom was breastfeeding him as a little boy.
All in all, the movie was very inspiring because we could see four different countries and how each of their family members raised them. Also, we can see the difference between their developmental checklist because of where they lived at and the necessities that they had or did not have. For instance, Hattie and Mari very pretty high on the checklist compared to where Ponijao and Bayar were at because of the things they did not have growing up. For instance, Bayar as a baby, laid in the bed all day instead of being active and being on the floor. Also, he did not mind being alone, so it secure attachment was not the greatest. Mari, had a very great life growing up because she had both parents in her life, had a good home, had books and toys to play with, etc. Also, her mom took her to the zoo, daycare, and music class. So, she had a good life because of her parents. On the other hand, Hattie had a great life as well because of her parents being active parents and giving her the things she needed. She as well went to daycare, the park, and music class just like Mari did. The girls had a better life compared to what the two boys had to deal with growing up. They did not have necessities that they girls had, and they did not live in an actual home as the girls did. As I was watching the movie, it was easy to see the difference in their physical and cognitive development because of the way they were raised and the things they had in their life. All in all, it was a fascinating movie because I learned a lot about what it is like for children growing up, especially the children who live in other parts of the world like Bayar and Ponijao.
through the good and bad experiences that she will face in her life. I must say, Hattie has an excellent support system that will walk along with her throughout her life. One thing that I found while watching the movie is when her parents would read to her, and they would ask her what these animals sound like. For example, her mom asked what a cow says, and her dad asked her what an elephant says. By her parents reading to her and working with her builds a solid foundation for her learning skills.
Next, we have the Mesosystem. The mesosystem encompasses the connection between the microsystem, such as home, school, neighborhood, and child-care center. This system contains linkages and interrelationships to two or more people who are in the microsystem that help Hattie. These people work together for Hattie to continue to grow and positively influence her. For this system to efficiently work, her parents need to have excellent communication with her caregiver and music teacher, need to have parent-child interaction, which means good communication and co-parenting between mom and dad, parents-grandparents. All of these are an essential part of Hattie's developmental level because they all work together. For example, Hattie was doing yoga exercises on her tummy. If Hattie's parents have excellent communication with her teacher, then her teacher can show her parent's how to do this so that way Hattie can be doing this at home as well. Another example, Hattie goes to music class with one of her parents. If her parents have great communication with her music teacher, her teacher could show her parents some more songs and movements that they could be doing outside of class at home. By these people working together, it is an excellent impact on Hattie because she is getting the care she needs.
Furthermore, we have the Exosystem. This system consists of social settings that do not contain children, but that nevertheless affect children's experiences in immediate settings. This deals with Hattie's parents' workplaces, their religious institution, community health and welfare services, and friends and extended families. This system is all about whether these people will work together that will help benefit Hattie the most. Will the parents' workplaces work with a flexible schedule? Let one of the parents' take sick leave if Hattie is sick one day. Also, will extended family help Hattie's parents if they are in need of money? All of this is something to think about when it comes to Hattie's sack because it can negatively hurt her. In the movie, it showed that Hattie was sick and her mom was taking care of her. As I was watching, I was wondering if Hattie's mom's boss lets her have the day off to care for Hattie while she did not feel good. Also, in the video, it showed that Hattie's grandparents are in her life, so I was wondering if Hattie's parents could count on the grandparents if one day they are in need of financial assistance. This system is vital for Hattie because it is whether she gets the care she needs. All of these people are part of her life, even though she is not an active participant, but it still negatively affects her at times.
Lastly, we have the Mesosystem. This system consists of cultural values, laws, customs, and resources. As I was watching the movie, I could see that Hattie had a great life, and she had everything she needed to help her grow to her developmental level. She had a lovely home to live in, had active parents and grandparents, went to a quality-care daycare and music class. For some of her toys, Hattie had a farmhouse set; she had an Evenflo Doorway Jumper to help with her gross motor skills. As we can see, Hattie was very fortunate with the things she had and where she lived in. Some of the other children in the video were not so lucky and did not have the items Hattie had. From where Hattie lived in and the things she had, I would say her family was economically stable because of the nice things she had. For example, her stroller that you would use when going bicycling, and having a hot tub.
Now we move on to Ponijao who is from Namibia. The reason why I chose family, poverty, and nutrition because I thought these three really explained who Ponijao was and where he grew up at because they pertain to him more.
For the family, the reason why I chose this one is because family is all Ponijao had growing up and that was who raised him.
His mom was a significant part of his life because she raised him and gave him the loved he needed, although, they did not have much with, to begin with. Growing up all he had was his mom, siblings, and maybe even that other mom who was in the movie. Also, it was heartbreaking to see that he did not have a father figure in his life. “Within the family, children learn the language, skills, and social and moral values of their culture” (Berk, pg. 68). As we see throughout the whole movie, the family was a big part in Ponijao life because of where they lived in Namibia, and all they had was the hut they lived in and the animals that lived around them. I loved that his mom was always by his side and guiding him the best way she could, and I love that his older siblings guided him along as well because they knew his mom could not do it all by herself. So, we can thank his mom for teaching him about their culture, and show him how to survive in their world through his physical and cognitive
development.
Next, we have poverty because Ponijao did not have much growing up except the things his mother provided him. From watching the movie, we could tell that they did not have much money or belongings because no one in the family wore clothing, the mothers were the only ones who really had shoes, and those were flip-flops, and the children never wore diapers because of where they lived. Because of them living in Namibia, the mothers would get bugs off their children by using her teeth and spitting it out. So, it was sad to see that they had no way of protecting their children from the bugs they have. Also, if they needed to travel somewhere, they would have to walk by foot with their children on their backs, so these mothers could walk for miles just to get where they needed to go. “Poverty rates climb to 32 percent for Hispanic children, 34 percent for Native-American children, and 38 percent for African American children” (Berk, pg. 73). By looking at the statistics, it is heartbreaking to see that African Americans are the majority of living in poverty just because of where they live in the world and not having the means to meet their children’s needs. Even though his family lived in Namibia, Ponijao was always a happy kid and was living his best life even though he did not have proper food, a bed, clothes on his back and shoes on his feet, and children toys for him to play with. On the other hand, it was sad to see the difference between his life and Hattie’s life.
Lastly, we will talk about nutrition because for him living in another country; it is hard for these children to get the nutrition that they need because they cannot afford it or they do not have it where they live. For Ponijao, the only nutrition that he gets is him being breastfed by his mother, and usually, these children are breastfed until they are about three or four years’ old because that is the only nutrition that they can give to their children. “Nutrition is especially crucial for development in the first two years because the baby’s brain and body are growing so rapidly” (Berk, pg. 171). So, if his mother stopped breastfeeding him, he would start to form malnutrition because of him having a diet low in all essential nutrients, and his body weight changing for the worst. It is heartbreaking to see when families cannot give their children enough nutrition to where they form malnutrition, and eventually die from it. In fact, it can cause their physical and cognitive development to change as well and start to lose what they used to do because of it. I was very thankful to see how much his mom was breastfeeding him as a little boy.
All in all, the movie was very inspiring because we could see four different countries and how each of their family members raised them. Also, we can see the difference between their developmental checklist because of where they lived at and the necessities that they had or did not have. For instance, Hattie and Mari very pretty high on the checklist compared to where Ponijao and Bayar were at because of the things they did not have growing up. For instance, Bayar as a baby, laid in the bed all day instead of being active and being on the floor. Also, he did not mind being alone, so it secure attachment was not the greatest. Mari, had a very great life growing up because she had both parents in her life, had a good home, had books and toys to play with, etc. Also, her mom took her to the zoo, daycare, and music class. So, she had a good life because of her parents. On the other hand, Hattie had a great life as well because of her parents being active parents and giving her the things she needed. She as well went to daycare, the park, and music class just like Mari did. The girls had a better life compared to what the two boys had to deal with growing up. They did not have necessities that they girls had, and they did not live in an actual home as the girls did. As I was watching the movie, it was easy to see the difference in their physical and cognitive development because of the way they were raised and the things they had in their life. All in all, it was a fascinating movie because I learned a lot about what it is like for children growing up, especially the children who live in other parts of the world like Bayar and Ponijao.