Child observation report

Child observation report
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(March, 2013)
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Children under ten years of age are almost at adolescence and mostly behave like teens. According to Sharman and his collengues, children at this age physically have grown taller and have started having body changes brought about by puberty. At home, they are becoming more responsible on personal duties such as home works, grooming and even cleaning their rooms. Most of them do not need a lot of supervision to do duties assigned to them by their parents. This group however is a group full of contractions. Yes, they may sometimes act and behave like grown ups but sometimes they might exhibit younger and immature behaviors (Sharman, Cross & Vennis, 2007). This paper then seeks to give a report of an observation that took place during lunch time where a 10 year old child was observed for a period of about an hour.
Tassoni mentions one of the vital behaviors of this group to be their diets and eating habits. Ten years old children have not yet settled completely on eating habits that they had developed since their younger years they say. The children who have been used unhealthy diets like taking sodas will continue to have them or request for them while and on the other hand, those that have been used to healthily diets will continue to enjoy taking healthy diets like having some fruits after meals (Tassoni, P. et al, 2005). This was noted after the child under observation started asking for a soda after she had already taken her lunch. She demanded to be given a glass of soda; which she was used to since she was younger according to her mother. The mother requested her to have juice instead of soda in vain. The mother had to threaten her in order to accept the juice. This proved why it is important for parents to model healthy eating habits for their children at home. They should try to have meals together at home as much as possible (having healthy diet); studies ...