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3 Months
Bram is three months old. Bram smiles at familiar people and toys, is able to laugh at surprising or funny things. Child Development describes operant conditioning in infants as a form of learning in which the infant asociates a behavior they engage in, like smiling, with a favorible sitmulus, like being played with (Feldman, p. 105). Bram seems to be conditioned to smile at funny things and the sight of his mother and father. -
8 Months, Social development
Bram has started to develope what Ainsworth termed a Secure Attachment Pattern (Feldman, p. 178). He often clings to his parents when presented with new situations and is slow to addapt to new people. Children with a Secure Attatchment Patern feel most comfortable around their mother and will tolerate new people and situations better when she is present (p. 178). Bram is hesitant around new people and deffinately prefers his mother and father. -
19 Months
Bram is displaying average gross motor skill proficiancy. He is able to walk and run and solve simple puzzles. Bram is starting part time day care as his mother returns to part time work, this will have a number of benifits such as educational and social benifits, and and increase in his atentional and language skills (Feldman p. 190). Being exposed to new physical and mental stimuli will help Bram's brain develope during Piaget's sixth substage of the sensorimotor stage (Feldman, p. 144). -
3 Years
Bram sometimes strays off task at home and daycare, and it has been suggested that we get Bram tested for ADHD. We are looking at alternative means of guiding Bram's behavior as we will likely not consider any form of medication. Our first source of hesitation is that ADHD only occurs in 3-5% of children (Feldman, p. 289). Second, Bram is only three and the side effects of ADHD medication "(such as irritability, loss of apitite and depression) are considerable" (Fledman, p. 289). -
6 Years
In his first year in school Bram has demonstrated a high proficiancy in reading and writing. We continue to read to bram and encourage him to take an interest in reading and discovering new books. Reading helps Bram develope his memory, "the process by which information is recorded, stored, and retrieved" (Feldman, p. 299). -
10 Years
As Bram completed 5th grade his teacher remarked that he "sometimes speaks out of turn, disrupts class or disrupts other pupils." We continue to use behavior therapy including the use of "rewards (such as praise) for desired behavior" (Feldman, p. 289). -
29 June 2028, 14 Years
Bram has a cellphone now, and is begining to do more things on his own. This is what Feldman (2014) refers to as autonomy, "one of the primary developmental tasks of" adolescents (p. 416). -
29 June 2032, 18 Years
Bram has graduated high school and been accepted to a good state university. Bram's first stage of his journey was not always easy. "The argumentativeness and assertivness of early adolenscence" often lead to arguments, but our athroitative parenting style helped to guide Bram through the trials of growing up (Feldman, p. 418).
