My Son's Pathway

Gavin’s personality is very closely related to the overcontrolled personality type (Manis, 2008). The overcontrolled category states that the child is

In “Our Secret” by Susan Griffins she examines and illustrates history, particularly World War II. Throughout the essay, Griffin looks into different characters hidden secrets and influences which are portrayed in detail. For example, Griffin talks about a childs influences during his childhood and how great the outcome that followed later in his adult life. An example of secrecy is followed through in the life of a girl who's family secrets revealed consequences in her adult life. In Our Secret, concealed secrets and influences in our lives are precisely shown in multiple stories.

“The development of children ages 12 through 18 years old should include expected physical and mental milestones. During adolescence, children develop the ability to: Understand abstract ideas. These include grasping higher math concepts, and developing moral philosophies, including rights and privileges; and Move toward a more mature sense of themselves and their

The guide below explains what you might expect from the development of the child through various ages:

All children and young people develop at different rates, but the order which they advance in differs very little. Children’s development tends to progress from head to toe, inner to outer, from simple to complex and from general to specific.

Developmental Psychology has widened my perspective and knowledge of the nature of development from humans’ infancy to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although I have learned about biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes and periods of development, I am especially interested in socioemotional development in infancy because it is the foundation for a child’s future development. That is to say, if children have a healthy socioemotional development from infancy, they will have a healthy life later on. By understanding the developmental process in infancy, I will be fully prepared when I have children or when my family’s members do.

Kayden’s father stated he does not have any current mental/psychological diagnoses, and has no apparent behavior or psychological issues. However, ADHD is prominent on his father’s side, and substance abuse issues are observed on his mother’s side (mother’s father). Per his father, Kayden shows no behavior issues that are not age appropriate, stating that he has never had a full on “tantrum”, and is easily redirected when upset. Kayden’s exhibited strength in this area is his overall “good” behavior. A barrier identified in this area is his susceptibility to

I choose my oldest son, who is a junior in high school. I thought him taking the LCI might help get a better understanding of what type of learner he is, and apply it to his schoolwork.

Another perspective that we can address is the goodness of fit theory which addresses the idea that a child’s development is dependent on temperament and how well the nature of the environment in which they are raised in matches with it (Feldman, 2011). Temperament is an individual’s innate personality that was instilled and never learned (Feldman, 2011). For example, since Leo’s temperament was slow-to-warm up, he resulted in very little activity levels, withdrew from social situations, and was irritated easily in the presence of unfamiliar faces (Carey, 1972). I viewed this as a pessimistic trait that he epitomized, and never realized until his depression that this was who he truly was. In attempts to “fix” what I thought was broken, I pushed him towards extracurricular activities. In reality, Leo was very introverted and became emotionally drained because of this so he always resorted to his room to be alone. Instead, I should have inspired Leo to participate in solitary activities that he enjoyed such as playing a musical instrument alone and unaccompanied activities (Carey, 1972). This scenario reinforces the importance the goodness of fit theory and balancing one’s temperament with the environment in which they grow in, otherwise there are possibilities of obstructing a child’s development by forcing them into certain situations and molding them into someone they’re not.

Baby Jack displays a healthy attachment to mom, while Alice shows clear indicators of a strong and healthy bond with Jack. As indicated in the above chart, Jack is displaying all the behaviour expected for this stage of development (from 6-12 months), and accordingly, as related to attachment, he was friendly with me as long as mom was close, and vigilant in ensuring he was always aware of her location. The fact that Alice is able to soothe Jack quickly and consistently and that he is able to adjust to a new stranger so well points to development of the confidence that Vera Fahlberg (2012) maintains in her text, A Child’s Journey through Placement, as intrinsically tied to secure attachment to a “primary attachment object”

Many facets go into how a person grows and evolves in the environment that they live in. There is no one single event that can be pointed to or one person that covers all the influences that happen to a young person throughout their earlier life. Many of these influences come from outside of the home and include interactions with other people that may be in the youth’s life every day or just for a passing moment. Social interactions dictate much of an impressionable adolescences life and how their cognitive abilities develop throughout the early part of their life. Even when these interactions from an outside observer may seem similar to many in the observed life the different stages of development may make them seem quite different to them.

Harding and Meldon-Smith (1999) and Sharman, Cross and Vennis (2007) provide milestones for children’s emotional development. When comparing these milestones to C’s development, it can be seen that C has only managed to reach about half of the milestones for her age in emotional development and all but a few of those for cognitive development. With regards to emotional development, C displayed a tendency to sulk rather than have an outburst (see appendix 2) and throughout time sampling observation (see appendix 1) was often seen to be watching what was going on around her. However, she failed to show an ability to control her emotions, and did not appear to be developing concepts such as forgiveness and fairness. C also appeared to have failed to reach one particular milestone for

Children who complete these stages successfully, grow to be calm and well centered adults (Ku,

I believe that there is so much more to a child's development than any psychologist or doctor could ever theorize. It takes many different things to make a child who they are and who they will

Chapter 7: Psychic Development A child possesses an inner instinct that enable him to choose from his complex environment what is suitable and