W2 Video Discussion
Several days before the deadline, please record and post your response to one of the following periods of development:
Choose only 1 stage of development after reading Chapter 1 of our text.
Which period of development is most interesting to you and why?
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- Prenatal – conception to birth
- Infancy/Toddlerhood – birth to 24 months
- Early Childhood/Preschool – 3 to 5 years
- Middle Childhood – 6 to 11 years
- Adolescence – 12 years and up
Your post should be your unique perspective, spoken in your own words, not AI generated. I want to know what you think.
Example 1 (Jesica)
Good Morning, I am not sure if you can see my video. I don’t know what happened; maybe I am having technical issues. I will write down what my area of interest in development is, the adolescent age. This is because I have my kids between the ages of 13 and 20. All the stages are important, however i feel that the adolesence is the most difficult age because it is when our kids are learning how to deal with their emotions. They are now making their own decisions, thinking that they are standing for what they believe in and who they are. When they were kids, it was easier for us to protect them and guide them. However, the adolescent age is when they are trying to figure out what they want. Is very important to build a connection and communication with our adolescents and respect their boundaries as well. This was very difficult for me at the beginning because it was hard to understand why they were pulling away. I had to learn to be more understanding and hear them out so I could be able to help them. At the end of the day, our kids know we are their safest target, and they know that we are going to be for them no matter what because we love them. Is sad to see some of their friends who wish their parents could understand them more, or that their parents are never around. Thats why it’s important to have that connection with our kids. I want to be able to understand the adolescent more, and this is why I am more interested in this stage.
Example 2 (Allen)
Hello everyone for this week’s discussion topic of what is the most interesting developmental stage to us and what we, you know, would like to learn more about. For me personally, it’s going to be middle childhood that 6 to 11 years old. Um, age range. And the reason that it is the most interesting to me is because I like to think of I have an interest in sociology as well. So my middle childhood being the age range or the developmental stage where children are starting to interact with peers, uh, of maybe the same age, maybe they’re older, maybe they’re younger. When we encounter in, you know, how schools set up recess and all that sort, all that sort of thing. It’s it’s very interesting. And it also leads into the topic of nature versus nurture, because nature, as we know, is just kind of how we live, uh, how we inherit, what we inherit, what we inherit from our parents, our family lineages. But nurture specifically, is not only, you know, the people that we are raised by and how, you know, our parents shape us, but also, uh, the environments that we grow up in, the different people that we are exposed to throughout our lives, the different people that we interact with throughout our lives and with middle childhood that is, you know, six years old being the earliest that all of this starts to set into stone. The comparison to other children is not just academic, but it is also there are also social comparisons as well. They’re social comparisons, in contrast, where, you know, you have, um, a child who who is a single child within their home interacting with other children who maybe have multiple siblings, have step siblings, or even, you know, have different sets of parents. They come from different cultural backgrounds. There’s a lot of things that comes with interacting with, you know, multiple people, um, same similar or even younger age groups. And it’s something that I remember from my childhood, relatively, of how I would compare myself with other peers, the social norms that I wouldn’t fully understand. And that ended up leading me to gravitate more towards children who also maybe didn’t fully understand those social norms either. And I see it with my younger sister as well, along with some of the children that I’ve worked with in their own schools. So overall, it’s just it’s it’s really interesting. I like I like looking at this from more of a sociological standpoint, but yeah. Hope you enjoyed my video. He’s on cat timeout because he’s begging for food. But yeah, I hope this all makes sense.