Child Observation Report Essay -- Adolescent Behavior

Confidential Material Detailed report of five observations. The names used in this Observation Report are fictitious. This is absolutely obligatory to protect the privacy of the children being observed. Observation 1 Ron and aggression appointment and time Wednesday April 16, 2014 1125-1250 Setting Playground for 1st/second grade recess 1125-1150, 3rd/4th grade 1155-1220, Kindergarten recess 1225-1250 Activities observed Children come up across the climbing peal, watching children pretend repair at the tire mountain and under(a) the large wooden play structure with the blue plastic slide. My fundamental interaction with the children I spent a lot of time answering questions to the highest degree my name and where I am from for the children. Example A There was bingle child named Ron on the first recess who was racing across the r ings with another child, lost the race and fell to the ground. He then started to r all(prenominal)ying cry and called himself a loser. I pulled him aside to try to talk to him to find come to the fore what was wrong. He kept telling me that he was a loser because he didnt win the race and he never wins, and that all my friends imagine I am a loser because I cry all the time. They make fun of me because I cry. They beat me up. I am a loser. I tried to reassure him and tell him I did not think back he was a loser. I explained how I thought one of the reasons he lost the race was because he had been climbing across the rings for or so of recess was tired from racing. He continued to cry even later on his friends came over and tried to get him to play. He just sat in the sand sobbing, so I tried to tell him that his friends came over and asked him to play so it did not appear that they think he is a loser. He said they would beat him up. I tried to get him to go and bring down i f they would play initially, he refused to interact with his friends but then he got up and tried to find his friends. He searched for a few minutes and when he could not find them he started crying again and walked away from me. visualise and time Monday, April 21, 2014 1125-1250 Setting Playground for 1st/second grade recess 1125-1150, 3rd/4th grade 1155-1220, Kindergarten recess 1225-1250 Activities observed Chi... ...g & Homer, Bruce. (1999). Children as folk psychologists The ontogeny understanding of the mind. In A. woodlouse & D. Muir (Eds.), The Blackwell reader in Developmental psychological science (pp. 228-252). Oxford, England Blackwell Publishers. Pepler, Debra, Craig, Wendy M., & OConnell, Paul. (1999). Understanding bullying from a dynamics systems perspective. In A. Slater & D. Muir (Eds.), The Blackwell reader in Developmental Psychology (pp. 440-451). Oxford, England Blackwell Publishers. Putallaz, Martha, & Wasserman, Aviva. (1990). Childrens entry behavior. In S.R. Asher & J. D. Coie (Eds.), Peer rejection in childhood (pp. 60-76). Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press. Rubin, Kenneth H., Burgess, Kim B., Coplan, Robert, J. (2002). Social withdrawal and shyness. In P. K. smith & C.H. Hart (Eds.). Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development (pp. 329-352). Oxford, England Blackwell Publishers. Seifert, Kelvin L., Hoffnung, Robert J., & Hoffnung, Michele. (1997). Play. In Lifespan Development (pp. 221-228). Boston Houghton Mifflin. Shaffer, David R. (2000). Social & Personality Development (4th ed.). Belmont, CA Wadsworth Thomas Learning.