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observer. He continued to play as though nothing had changed. Red appeared to be very reliant on his mother and insisted that she play with him. He engaged her with unclear language and showed her what he is playing with. Red began playing with toy popsicles, which had the alphabet labeled on them. He was able to recognize each of the letters, and could place them in order. Red was also able to place an upper case letter with its equivalent lower case letter. Each popsicle had a different…

The age of the children I observed were around the age three to five years old, preschool age. I arrived at 3:30 pm, and the children were all sitting in the carpet. It was around reading time. Some children had books and were sitting on the carpet, while others were sitting on a couch reading, or picking out a book from the shelf. One girl on the carpet was talking to another girl about wanting to eat chicken nuggets, and imitated eating nuggets. After the childrens read for several minutes, an…

Walking into the toy section of Walmart I noticed two things, the first one was that there were different isles for boys and girls toys. Second was the fact that the boys isle had more dark colors such as blue, black, and red while as the girls were more of pinks and bright colors. Once I had started to look at these isles I noticed a lot of the toys are in fact gendered. I noticed that the girls isle has babies, lots and lots of baby dolls which should suggest that little girls are suppose to…

When I was little, before my parents were divorced, my parents, my two brothers, and I would go visit my family in La Grande. It was a very small town that my dad grew up in. We would stay in my great grandma’s house. The house was old yet amazing and even now I can remember every little detail about it. Outside it had many great climbing trees with faces, a giant garden that we would always harvest carrots and cucumbers from, and an old, damaged, red barn that I would always tell people had…

They need to repetitively hear, see or do things in order for the necessary learning connection to be made in their brain. Cognitive Development: When a toddler encounters a “problem,” such as a toy breaking, or difficulty turning on a toy, give him/her time to work out the problem independently. Children are motivated by a little frustrating to use their problem-solving skills. Communication in pretend play, children use role play and communication. By pretending…

requests into 27 categories of toys, such as dolls, books, accessories, cars, animals, musical, etc. Some categories leaned heavily female, such as domestic toys, female and baby dolls, dollhouses, clothing, accessories, and others. Heavily male categories included vehicles, military toys, male dolls, including action figures, machines, and others. There were some categories that did not lean in either direction: games, animals, books, educational toys, and musical toys. Boys usually requested…

sell products and ideas. One of the products that use catchy and colorful advertisements are toys. Toys have been a main part of every culture as they have been a part of our early history. The type of toys manufactured for the children reflects what the society views as acceptable. These toys are to help children develop skills (social or educational) and teaches them about sexuality, gender and violence. Toy manufactures play an important role in influencing views of children as they voice and…

they are experiencing sensory stimuli. They also have a center that has a container filled with different types of blocks. Each block represent a different letter of the alphabet and has a different toy inside to represent it. For example, for the letter C the block has a plastic toy cow on the inside which moves when shaken and has a bell that rings. With this being said, each block has a different sensory skill for children to experience which includes sound and touch. This also ties in with…

Blue: How Separation of Toys by Gender Affects Children I want to be a superhero when I grow up! I want to look just like Barbie when I grow up! Children are always imagining up futures for themselves. They look to their parents for guidance and those parents give children toys to encourage imagination and development. Toys teach toddlers and children new and exciting concepts from building to music to fantasy. Toys are an amazing tool for teaching children the building blocks of important…

his friend was struggling to fix his broken toy, so he ask his friend if it is broke. His friend did not respond the first time nor the second time he asked. So the little boy just grabbed the broken toy and shared his fixed toy with his friend. Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic theory explains how the superego of pre-schoolers, consist of a moral agent (Pitman, 2015, PowerPoint). Although the little boy was aware of his friend struggle and shared his toy, his friend did not communicate with him as…