Why Is Luke's Being Neglected By His Peers

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Hypothesis Two: Luke’s being neglected by his peers is resulted from his lacking of Empathy as he tends to only focus on his own feelings, doing what he wants to do and what makes him happy to others. Even when his peers show disagreement or rejection to such behaviors, he will not address their feelings and continues doing the same thing as if others liked that as well. Luke is at a neglected sociometric status in the class. He used to play by himself all the time during the free-play; however, I noticed that recently Luke has entered a new level of social participation—parallel play. He enjoys the close proximity to the boys in the class even though they often quarrel with each other for the toys and space. Even so, because there is little meaningful (verbal) interaction going on between Luke and his peers, he is still neglected for most of the time. In the eyes of the elder kids, in particular, Luke is never part of their group. Last week, a 5 year old girl brought from home a lot of beads to give to her peers. She explained her reason for not giving Luke the bead to two 5-year-old boys that: “he is going to lose it anyway.” …show more content…

One time, all of the kids were standing in a line and was about to play outside. The girl stand in front of Luke giggled him. Luke liked that and he was really happy. He then turned around to the boy stood behind him and did the same thing that he found funny to him. Yet the boy did not find it funny at all and said to Luke: “stop! I don’t like that.” Instead of stopping immediately, Luke continued laughing and giggling the boy as if the boy enjoyed what he was doing just as he did. It was until Mrs. Y came to intervene did Luke finally

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