Questions On My Virtual Child
My Virtual Child #2
This set of questions focuses on early childhood physical, cognitive, and social/emotional development. In order to answer them, you will need to run the program until your child is 5 years, 11 months old, and focus on ages 24 months through 5 years.
1. Have there been any environmental events in your child’s first five years that you think might have influenced his or her physical or cognitive development? On what do you base your hypotheses?
Before having our child, my partner and I planned out how we would care for the baby/child. We knew we would be limited financially, but we did not want to let that limitation affect our bonding/parenting with our child. Therefore, we decided I would work full-time and my partner …show more content…
We agreed that if the child could tolerate it, my partner would breastfeed until about two years of age. We knew research shows that breastmilk is very instrumental in providing for our child’s health through the receipt of antibodies contained in the milk (p. 116). Additionally, because of a child’s important need for nutritional balance, we reviewed how we could create and maintain an optimum diet for our child to receive essential nutrients. We accessed our local college library and found a typical snack and meal plan for children under 5, and a reference to MyPlate for kids, in a textbook by Lori A. Smolin and Mary B. Grosvenor (2013). With this nutritional knowledge, we could now develop a plan for our child’s body and brain development through nutrition which we hope will be habit forming into adulthood. However, we knew that if we did not place equal enthusiasm into researching how to properly exercise the body, our child might become overweight which could lead to significant health problems in later years. We had a challenging time finding a site on the internet where we might find reputable information about exercise for children aged birth to 5 years old, but with persistence, we found a guide from Nemours written in 2009. Thankfully, it offered advice such as, “Be a great role model for healthy habits. Add physical activity to the things you do already. Park farther away
This set of questions focuses on early childhood physical, cognitive, and social/emotional development. In order to answer them, you will need to run the program until your child is 5 years, 11 months old, and focus on ages 24 months through 5 years.
1. Have there been any environmental events in your child’s first five years that you think might have influenced his or her physical or cognitive development? On what do you base your hypotheses?
Before having our child, my partner and I planned out how we would care for the baby/child. We knew we would be limited financially, but we did not want to let that limitation affect our bonding/parenting with our child. Therefore, we decided I would work full-time and my partner …show more content…
We agreed that if the child could tolerate it, my partner would breastfeed until about two years of age. We knew research shows that breastmilk is very instrumental in providing for our child’s health through the receipt of antibodies contained in the milk (p. 116). Additionally, because of a child’s important need for nutritional balance, we reviewed how we could create and maintain an optimum diet for our child to receive essential nutrients. We accessed our local college library and found a typical snack and meal plan for children under 5, and a reference to MyPlate for kids, in a textbook by Lori A. Smolin and Mary B. Grosvenor (2013). With this nutritional knowledge, we could now develop a plan for our child’s body and brain development through nutrition which we hope will be habit forming into adulthood. However, we knew that if we did not place equal enthusiasm into researching how to properly exercise the body, our child might become overweight which could lead to significant health problems in later years. We had a challenging time finding a site on the internet where we might find reputable information about exercise for children aged birth to 5 years old, but with persistence, we found a guide from Nemours written in 2009. Thankfully, it offered advice such as, “Be a great role model for healthy habits. Add physical activity to the things you do already. Park farther away