When I signed up for Child Development this year, I brought a BabyCare baby home. This project consisted of caring and assisting a programmed baby. After, I realized how much frustration can be caused and how all my time aimed towards the baby. During the project, I imagined having a baby at my age; all the my years of hard work going down the drain. Also, my softball career, quality time with friends, and wanting a period of relaxation. Additionally, I learned the struggles of having a baby while in school and it helped me comprehend why my parents are so strict with me. My parents helped me with an even better understanding of my project by providing real world examples with an incident that could involve me. I grew to realize, I need to
When you are making a baby door hanger, for the hospital door, you three main steps would be figuring out what colors you are going to do and buying all of your supplies, painting the canvases and the little wooden letters for the baby’s name, then putting everything together and gluing down the letters. During this process it takes a long time to finish. This project is very inexpensive, also. Making the door hanger is simple if you know what you are doing.
In my role, I am required to do regular observations of the child to help track their development progression, I am also required to take part in parent’s evenings to talk and explain to the parents how their children are getting on and progressing. I am also required to play a big part in caring for the children in ways that are educational as well as being fun for them. I also take a part in making sure they get physical exercise and meet their nutritional needs.
Being a parent transformed me in unexpected ways. I found myself wanting to provide for my daughter and later my son the same security and benefits my parents had provided for me. I found a job at University Children’s Center. UCC provides care for children from the ages of 6 weeks to 6 years and I wanted to be close to my children. I worked with all the age groups but found my niche in the infant program. I enjoyed the close bonds I was able to form with both the babies and their families. I took great pride in creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. I took classes to become Infant Nursery Room Supervisor. Once again, I excelled in my studies and enjoyed the learning process. Bringing the information I learned into the classroom was
When I became a mommy at the age of 23, I became aware of how much there was to learn. As a new parent I became overwhelmed by all the duties I had in order to take care of my daughter. She had to be fed, change, bathe, put to sleep, etc. It seemed unconceivable to me that I could cope with any other additional activity, such as going to college or working at the same time. There was a point in my life that I felt discouraged and felt I needed guidance and support to keep on going. I wanted her to experience what I experience during my childhood. However, by the time my 3rd daughter was born, I was aware of everything I had learned and I was actually an excellent mommy. I was able to analyze in detail what every parent must do raise their family in becoming productive citizens of our society and the reason why it was so important to become an excellent caregiver.
As well as being involved in the main care of the mother during her pregnancy midwives are also part of and implement initiatives. One initiative is ‘the baby friendly initiative’.
Reflecting myself throughout the years something unique about me is that I like to help other people.I want to be the kind of person that can inspire people or help other people even if it's just the littlest thing. The person who has shaped me and into who I am is my father. He has shaped me into who I am because at a young age, he went to America without knowing any english to get a job to have enough money to get my mom here. After hearing this, it has shaped me into who I am because he came here for his kids to have a better future.The field I became interested in is taking care of kids or babys. I became interested in this field since my sophomore year when i got introduce the the little kids. I learn that this field takes a lot of patient. I'm interested in this field because I find kids interesting, Love how happy and joyful they are and i want to help them be who they want to be.
For a student also playing the role of a mother, it made sense that I would throw aside school bags, run to the car and pick up an ill child, but I marvel how I did it all: dropping the children off at day care or school, taking on tons of academic classes, employed to make a living and arriving back home to six children needing fed, bathed, and played with and before
The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind makes available Parent Infant Programs (PIP) for children ages 0-5 that possess hearing or visually impairments for early intervention without any charge. Families and caregivers will be matched up with a certified Parent Advisor (PA) for sessions to address concerns and priorities from monitoring the child’s progress. One of two PIP tracks is meant to place emphasis on learning through their senses, orientation and mobility, communication to developmental skills, “and transitioning into a school system. The program uses the VIISA curriculum which includes acquiring a wide range of skills and concepts that work for the child and family, as well as information about resources and support services”
For this week’s assignment we had to answer associated questions pertaining to our “babies” at 0 months. The assignment questioned us on different circumstances and wanted us to answer with opinions on how to take care of our babies to these different situations. For example, it asked me if I wanted to breastfeed my child, who I wanted to take care of my child when gone, and other personal interactions. This experience was very interesting! It was wonderful to know that my virtual baby had a successful birth. I’m excited to see the outcome of how I “raise” my baby. In terms of how it pertains to the book, we learned that language is the most critical skill infants naturally try to learn. Even as soon as they first get out into the world they
This project was an enjoyable one for me. It provided a real need for considering what being in an elderly person’s shoes would be like, reflecting here on communication and mobility. Although we did age simulation activities and saw videos of such in the semester, I hadn’t remembered to bring that knowledge base to the project at the time of making it. What I did rely on, was the first hand experience of visiting an elderly home, as my grandma on my dad’s side lives in a home, and has moved from one home to another, providing me with references for the design of the project. Having to think about what, essentially, I would want in a nursing home that could accommodate any possible disabilities, both for me and others, wasn’t all that difficult, but it wasn’t easy either.
A lot of the qualities and strengths I have gained over the years have spawned in combination of being a mother and a professional woman. Professionally, I’ve learned that I am assertive in which I’ll know how to voice any concerns or questions I have during the learning process of this program. I feel this quality will also allow me not to be timid or intimated by instructors or veteran teachers and allow me to be confident in what I have learned. As a mother, I’ve learned how to be patient. I understand that I am stepping into a new career with high expectations and a lot at stake.
discharge from the hospital. They are provided teaching about breastfeeding at home and offered community health and peer group programs to guide them after their discharge (BCC, 2012).
Also, being a young parent helps with not being already set into an everyday routine, and you were recently in the same shoes as your child.
I came into professional child development associate because I love child. I never thought I would go back to school after I graduate. I am amazed at all the information I’ve learned about ways of teaching and talking with children since I started daycare. This class has giving me career and I’m
A year and a half ago I was terrified of children. I was afraid that I would screw them up in the brain. I thought I was a bad influence and I would be the type of parent who is never there for their kid. I was desperately looking for a career change when an old coworker passed by me at the mall, she told me about her great job at a gym 's kids club. I thought it sounded really easy and at least a good change of pace for the time being, so I applied. After I had been offered the job I immediately called my mother and asked, ‘what am I going to do? What did I get myself into? I don 't like kids! ' she told me, ‘you 've always gravitated towards kids and always entertained them at functions. You have a natural ability with kids. You 'll be fine. If you are really that worried just try it out for a couple weeks. ' Shortly after starting the job I couldn 't leave I liked my coworkers too much and I realized I had always been wrong. I wasn 't actually terrified of the kids, I was afraid because I didn 't know how I would react to different situations. After 7 months of working there, I became the supervisor of the kids club and 4 months after that I decided I wanted to try my skills in early education and family studies.