Playful Learning in Early Childhood In the video, Katie's Kids Child Care Center is shown. Three year old Bianca had been chosen as the meteorologist for the class that day. This hands on role helps Bianca learn about the weather and gives her the oppurtunity to share her knowledge with her classmates. The curriculm at Katie's kids is dedicated to the idea that play and hands on discovery are the best ways for young children to learn. The center director, Maureen Kelly says, ''that playful exploration boosts cognitive, physical, emotional and social development as children interact with the world around them.'' She goes on to say that they can learn problem solving skills, and learn how to get along with others. Project approach is a wide …show more content…
Parents of well-adjusted children are authoritative because their children have especially cooperative dispositions. Difficult children are more likely to evoke coercive, inconsistent disipline, extra warmth and firm control succeed in modifying these children's maladaptive styles. Authoritative child rearing seems to create a positive emotional context for parental influence. In the video, four different styles are shown. In the first video, authoritative is being shown. You see a mother and her daughter playing together at the park. For the most part, the mother does what the child wants to do. However, when the child wants to climb a tree, the mother tells the child that she isn't big enough to climb it yet, and then suggests to head to the climbing wall on the playground. The child is happy with that and the video ends. In the second video, uninvolved is being shown. The kid runs out of the car, way ahead of the mother and goes to play on the playground. The mother sits on a bench and reads her book, not paying any attention to her child. In the third video, permissive is being shown. The child runs off ahead of the mother. The mother watches her child from the bench. Then the child is shown climbing the tree and the mother tells her child that she doesn't want her to climbg it, but the child whines and continues to climb it. Then the mother reacts by saying, ''okay, if that's what you want.'' In the last video, authoritarian is being shown. The mom and child arrive at the park holding hands and then the child goes to play on the playground while the more sits on the bench with her book in hand. The mother glances at the child to ensure she is behaving. Later, the child sits by the mother on the bench and tells her mom that she is bored and wants to go play on something else. The mother very firmly tells the child to ''go back to the sandbox or we are
Vignette two: Families who previously had children enrolled in a nearby preschool have told you stories of what happened to their children in that center. They describe dirty sheets on the cribs, harsh punishments including withholding food, and ratios of twenty children to one adult. One day you drive by and see a lot covered with asphalt and dry grass. There are a few rusting pieces of playground equipment. Several children are standing along the chain link fence looking at the cars going by. There are no adults in sight.
Parenting styles have been widely defined by Baumrind into three categories, authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. Parenting styles can be defined as a pattern of attitudes in how parents choose to express and communicate with their children. These styles are categorized based on the level of nurturance, parental control and level of responsiveness (Dwairy, 2004). Authoritative style exhibits high levels of demand, responsiveness and nurturance; authoritarian style exhibits high levels of demand but low levels of responsiveness, permissive style exhibits low levels of demand but high in responsiveness and nurturance (Dwairy, 2004). These parenting styles have been proposed to have a significant impact on a child’s development as well as academic achievement and psychological well-being. Children reared by authoritative parents are stated to have the highest levels of academic achievement, self-esteem, emotional adjustment and well-being according to Baumrind’s category of styles (Dwairy, 2004). However, these three categories are based on Western samples and have been said to describe parenting styles mainly in the West and question its limitations in describing parenting across cultures, as each style’s defining patterns may have different meanings across cultures.
When Ezra was eight years old, he had a psychologist report done that asked a set of questions not only to him but also to myself about my parenting style. I scored high in the top 15 percentiles in not only warmth and affection but also discipline and control. Being high in all four aspects of parenting styles puts me into the authoritative style (Bee & Boyd, 2012). In The Developing Child, the authors describe the parents with this parenting style as those that are “setting clear limits, expecting and reinforcing socially mature behavior, and at the same time responding to the child’s individual needs (Bee & Boyd, 2012, p. 326).” As I reflect on certain situations, I can tell that this style guided my parenting. For example, when Ezra was 6 he frequently cheated at games if he knew he could get away with it. My response, with accordance to my authoritative parenting style, was to beginning teaching him right and wrong, not getting upset, but to bring up the cheating and tell him to play by the rules despite him not having a “strong sense of mortality (Manis, 2008).” I decided to use that option because I wanted Ezra to learn from the experience but continue to play the game and have
My final question would be how the parents of the example reacted to their own recording and actions? Did they get to reflect on their parenting style and decide for themselves if that is how they want to raise their child? Sometimes we don’t realize what we are doing until we step back and see/hear it from an outsider’s perspective. I completely agree with Holden when he states that these parents could have handled these situations differently. I believed in a blend of parenting styles that create a loving environment but also discipline the child whether it’s spanking when necessary or talking it
Then afterwards my quote is when the police officers separate the moms and their children. “Her mother was standing next to her, motionless. She could heard her
After the child ventured away from his grandmother, someone tried to interact with the child, but had no success; he shied away. However, minutes later the child slowly returned to the person that tried to interact with him and started to initiate interaction with the person. Once the child initiated interaction, he started to express his verbal skills (which are very well developed for a two-year old). The child wanted to play on the play-set (a swing and slide) in the yard so; he pointed to the play-set and said “let’s go there”. He quickly ran to the play-set in complete excitement with a huge smile on face. Once there, he hesitated before he started playing. The child seemed a little stressed in the beginning of his play; his posture and gestures were very stiff. After playing for about thirty minutes, the child returned to the same area that his
Authoritative parenting has the most successful child outcomes. This parenting style is known to be a good choice for all ethnic groups and for children with all different backgrounds. Authoritative parents encourage independence and nurture their children while also maintaining high expectations and consistent discipline. These children normally have control over their emotions and develop good social skills. A child being raised by an authoritative parent is
The video’s poor quality and many errors detracted from its credibility and made the information that it was attempting to relay questionable. Correcting the narrator’s monotone voice and close proximity to the microphone could greatly improve the quality of the video. The narrator incorrectly refers to charts as tables while discussing the features of the different parenting styles. The information displayed in the charts lacks consistency as one is an adjective, implying qualitative results, and the other is a noun, implying quantitative results. The video contains many misspellings considering the small amount of text onscreen: impulsvie, dicipline, and apposed. The video incorrectly cites Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the movie clip
Children and adolescents of authoritative parents are consistently described as most pro-social, academically and socially competent, and least symptomatic. Children whose parents are described as authoritarian, permissive and disengaged show significantly worse outcomes, with children of authoritarian parents showing typically the most disturbed adjustment of the four parenting
Mildred Parten classified social play/behaviors into six categories: unoccupied, onlooker, solitary, parallel, associative, and cooperative. Unoccupied behavior is a non-play behavior, in which the child is occupied by looking at anything that is interesting at the moment, but does not engage in any type of play. The child may entertain him/her self by moving around, getting on and off furniture, playing with their body, or by glancing at their at surroundings while remaining in one spot. (Wortham & Reifel, 2010)
Each parent is different; they all have different ways in parenting and disciplining their children. One’s own parenting style is usually derived from the way one was raised or the society one lives in. Parenting styles include authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive, and it is very important to know which style one falls in because it can have an effect on how one’s child grows up to be and develops. Authoritative parenting would be the better parenting style because it is in the middle of the parenting styles; it is not at the extreme ends of the spectrum. It can be very beneficial to parents to understand that how one raises their children can give them a foundation for good development for years to come.
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Well first off to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the parenting styles between the Harsh-Hearts and the Easy-Goings, their styles of child rearing must be categorized first. Child-rearing are combinations of parenting behaviors that occur over a wide range of situations. There are four different categories of combinations in child-rearing: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved. After studying these two different cases, it can be declared that Mr. and Mrs. Harsh- Heart use an authoritarian child-rearing approach while the Easy- Goings use the authoritative child-rearing style. Authoritarian child-rearing is “low in acceptance and involvement, however high in coercive control, and low in autonomy granting.” (Laura 216)Authoritarian parents have a lot of punishment and usually resort in spanking for discipline. The parents are the boss, there are rules, its tyrannical, there’s structure, and the parents are directive. Meanwhile on the other hand, authoritative is the complete opposite and it is said to be the most successful approach. Authoritative child-rearing “involves high acceptance and involvement, ad...
I chose to relate this theory because I feel like it can be present in most every child as well as parent. Based on the age and actions of the child, I would place her in the stage of autonomy vs. shame and doubt. This stage typically occurs between the ages of two and three years old, which matches the age of the young girl. In addition, I looked at the actions of the girl and there was one example that I feel matched what typically happens during this stage. When the parent first saw the play area for the kids, they decided to let their daughter play. They took her to the small table in the area and sat down next to her. The little girl got mad and said that she did not want her parents help. She wanted to do it alone. The parents eventually decided to go back and sit at the table while she played. Their table was right next to the toy areas, and they could keep a good eye on her while she played. They likely decided to do this to give their daughter more independence which will make her feel like she can do things on her own without the help of her parents. This theory also relates to the parents that I observed. Since they appear to be in their thirties, they would be in the generativity vs. stagnation stage of development. They clearly have a child and are focused on caring for others, specifically caring for their daughter. This stage was
So this is the basic story. A couple wanted to head out for the night, so they called in their babysitter that they’ve known for a while and who has watched their kids on many occasions. When she got their the kids were already in bed. She decided to watch tv but before she could do so, she called the mother. She asked if it would be ok to watch tv since the kids were already asleep.