Observational Letter

Ch 4 Journal Topic #2 Dear Son/ Daughter in childhood I will expect you to have an accelerated maturation in the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages in development. I will hope that you have a good temperament as baby and cause little trouble. Before you enter Pre-K I will expose you to a good amount of math and start teaching you the basics to improve cognition of the subject. I observed the same thing being done to my twin sister and she is very good in math. A concern I have is that you will genuinely not like learning and not appreciate education. I hope to pass on that trait to you. I will expect you to try in school from the starting point because I know things will be easier for you if you already have this mindset when

My biggest concern is that by the time you reach secondary school and you are in adolescence , it will be exponentially harder than it is now. Although I will still expect you to have good grades and the only subject the I will be lenient towards is math. I want you to follow in my footsteps of taking advanced math courses and even reaching beyond the math classes I took. The punishments that I that I will enforce will be lectures and I will use negative reinforcement to have you keep getting good grades. My mother instilled verbal punishment and I will do the same. I will not help you in school because my mother also did not help me and I think this is a positive thing because I had to learn things on my own from an early age, but I will provide you will tutoring if you need it. My dreams for you are to be a better than me intellectually and in other aspects. I expect you not to be a problematic child that misbehaves and I will require you to have respect for teachers and not be disruptive in class, however you can be argumentative if you are treated unfair. As for your adult life. I do not have an expectation of you having a specific career. I will allow you