My cultural background includes Jamaica. Jamaica is located in the Caribbean and is part of North America. On average‚ the temperature is between 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Nights are colder than the days‚ and the mountain areas are colder than the lower land throughout the year. One of the colder mountain areas is the Blue Mountain Range since it is the tallest mountain on the island. When it rains in Jamaica‚ it rains for short periods of time‚ and the rainfall is light. People in Jamaica wear
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Based on my observation‚ one of the common non-verbal ‘things’ done in my community or culture is we greet each other with Salam. Salam is something like shake hand but in more polite way by using both hands. The next thing I noticed is that every time people do Salam their right hand will go to their chest‚ including me‚ based on my knowledge it is to indicate that we greet each other sincerely. In another word‚ based from what I read it is to show that we greet each other from the heart. Another
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Observation and Analysis of Development Stage and Theories Observation and analysis of my 5year old son‚ that has been diagnosed high functioning autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder‚ and applying my observations to the various development theories. Observation I began my observation watching Matthew‚ playing "hide and seek" in the yard along with his 2year old sister‚ that was also outside throughout the observation. This interactive game play lasted fifteen minutes approximately
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Laura Taylor Paul Kincs Child and Adolescent Psych 26 April 2010 Child Observation This time‚ I decided to observe children between the ages of five and six in a kindergarten class room at Maddock Public School. Maddock is a smaller school and there were only five children in the class‚ all of them were boys. I knew this would be an interesting day‚ because we learned in class that boys tend to be a little bit more active and disobedient‚ but I was definitely looking forward to it. I went
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The child I observed is a 5-year-old Caucasian boy. He has blonde hair and is about the same height and size of the other children in the preschool classroom. During the time I observed the children were engaged in self-selected activities that were set up around the room. The boy I watched spent his time engaging in play with a light table that was filled with knot sand and plastic bugs. The children used magnifying glasses to look at the materials that filled the table. The purpose of time sampling
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When looking into my cultural background there were a two factors that influenced me musically such as being told that music is not a real career and my parents divorced. Many people in my family believe that a music career is only blank to be played in middle or high school not to make a living doing it. Once you finish high school you are require to process a real career that earns you more money to take care of you family. I always remember my uncle‚ tell me that teaching music is not where the
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Play Observation Kiahi a boy of about 3 years old was playing alone stood on a small hill of dirt ‚ at first it looked like her was just looking at the other kids play. When I kept looking at him to see if he was just going to continue to doing nothing‚ but watch the other children I noticed that he was standing there like a solider tall and with determination on his face. With his hand to his forehead looking about as the other children ran around. After a while I see that he is pointing to his
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Finding parent B wasn’t too hard of a challenge‚ I was at a family cookout and noticed a mother verbally and physically abusing her child. Watching the child’s face in humiliation was heart breaking‚ that I wanted to comfort the boy. What stood out to me when I observed the mother forcefully slapping the kid on the butt and hands anytime the child didn’t listen to her. This is a form of unwanted parenting‚ “mother’s not wanting to have any children or not wanting to have more than she has” (Brooks
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In an evening spent at a local park‚ I observed two toddlers playing on the playground. Both toddlers were about the same size and height‚ and they were seemingly about two years of age. These two children stood out to me because though they seemed about the same age‚ their behavior on the playground was very different. As I observed‚ both subtle and large differences began to make themselves apparent. One of the toddlers‚ a male‚ was playing on the equipment with a male caregiver. While he was
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Child: Male/ about 4yrs old Parent: Female/ about 30 yrs old Description: My family and I were at Joe’s Crab Shack in Round Rock and we were eating outside next to the playground. A family of 3 (Mother and 2 sons) were sitting about three tables away when all of a sudden I heard an outburst of crying and screaming. As I watched and paid closer attention to their conversation‚ I noticed that the child was crying because his mother would not let him play in the sand-filled playground until
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