why is child observation important?
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To learn how children act.\nTo safeguard children from possible danger.\nIt's fun.
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The best info, to me, come from the french researcher Piaget.  He used is own children to study the development of a child, on many aspect (awareness, feeding, sensitivity, biological).  Here is a website with all the main researcher links. You cannot have a better answer.\nhttp://www2.yk.psu.edu/~mer7/theorists.htm
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Maybe they don't realize that the kids need some attention.
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If one child is being abused or neglected why would anyone believe that it is unlikely the other children are in danger? Since they felt something happened to one child that was bad enough to take the child away, they have to protect the other children as well if the adult that caused the situation would still remain.
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I think if my OSD were my bio kid, she would be WORSE behaved!! And don't underestimate the power of just talking with them and being there for them to talk to. They may get that glassy, glazed look in their eye, but I do think some of it eventually filters down to them. The big thing is allowing them to make mistakes. No, not standing by and watching them make mistakes, but realizing they are still kids (no matter what THEY think about it) and they are gonna make mistakes, and our job is to help them pick up the pieces when they do... to listen and guide as much as we can, and just be patient with them. There comes a point in time when we are no longer "responsible" for their actions, and they have to suffer and face consequences when they do certain things. There is no getting around that.
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You and your husband come first.  For your child/chilren it is important that your relationship can be a model for them in how they should relate to other people.  If you exhibit disrespect or lack of attention for eachother and focus on your child then he/she will develop a similar lack of disrespect for other people.\n\nIt is also important because your children need to know they are in a stable household and you ensuring that your relationship with your husband comes first goes a long way to facilitating this.\n\nGood Luck!
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It's definitely a way to measure kids intelligence... if not the parents. Some jobs required early learning.
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My one and two year old do the same thing...A lot of people sleep with their eyes open ...While freaky to look at...it is not harmful or mean that anything is amiss.
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That's what social studies and generally studying people that are outside of their general thinking is intended to do.  Schools do try, but I think it needs to be taught throughout life and is probably a natural part of being a kid and learning about life..at first you're a little self-centered.  Actually, that self-centeredness to a certain age is proven in psychology.
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Extremely important!  I am an infant/toddler caregiver and teach classes on early childhood education at the university level.  There are many different charts and forms you can use to see if the infant's growth and development is "on track" - more involved and detailed than just the pediatrician checking the child's height and weight.  But for any of those charts/forms you will be observing things the infant can do - some easily observed like turning over and crawling, but some that take really focused observation and practice to notice, like certain reflexes.
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Children who are securely attached to significant adults in early childhood have been shown to be able to develop appropriate peer relationships, and cope well with problems that confront them. It is also known that children who have had good attachment experiences will be able to use these in their relationships with their own children in later life.\n"Attachment helps the child attain full intellectual potential; sort out what he or she perceives; think logically; develop a conscience; become self-reliant; cope with stress and frustration; handle fear and worry; develop future relationships; and reduce jealousy." (Fahlberg, 1988., p.13)
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Parental Guidance for under 13 viewing.
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Quality of time spent with children is perhaps more important than time.\nThat does not negate the value of time. Quality plus quantity is always the best choice.\nAll this assumes that the mother’s influence would have been a positive one anyway.\nIncreased time and contact will make the child’s morals more like the mothers good or bad.
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Attention to teenagers is most often given in this context: parents and adults will often overlook accomplishments or let acccomplishments be clouded by behavior that they either fail to recognize, or by behavior that they think they understand. The only time adults will look at teenagers is when there is a problem, not when teenagers accoplish something. This creates a prejudice and an image bias. Hope it helps.
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If people grow up around certain things and see no alternatives to their respective reality, that is how a cycle can continue to perpetuate itself.  That is why is it important that opportunities and exposure are alloted to young people, from whatever background, to expand their minds.
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Are you asking how mother are important to the socialization. They are the child's first exposure to the world. Mothers have an important role that could forever alter the course of history.
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Because you could be the only voice they have .A lot of children don't no what is happening to them or that it is wrong and sometimes what we think is ok my not be to them .A child sometimes don't understand until the damage has been done .Or until they are older and it comes back to haunt them .This could be their only resources.