GCC CHLDV 135 Class

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You as a baby

My parents talk all the time about how I was a very easy going baby. Both me and my sister were very easy babies to take care of. I smiled a lot, barely cried, and was pretty curious. I know two languages and when I was learning how to speak I was very good about learning both. I would mix both languages together when communicating with my parents. I personally love babies. I do however know how much work they are and prefer to admire from a distance. I think people choose to have babies for a plethora of reasons. Some just really love babies and want some of their own and some people have children to keep the family bloodline going.

Who were you in Early Childhood?

As a child I was always very shy and quiet. I was sensitive but a logical thinker and often was told I was much more mature then the peers around me. I ate anything with noodles in it. Although I never really felt safe around people, I was lucky enough to always feel safe in myself. Even as a child, I trusted my ability to do things and knew my own limits. My school life was not the best. I was bullied throughout the entirety of my Elementary years and never felt as if I fit in. After a few years I just stopped trying to fit in and instead would try and find kids like me. I grew up being in classes with a majority of Korean kids. My mother enrolled me in the dual language program at my school to help me learn Korean. From the second I started school, even in preschool (I went to a Korean preschool as well) I never fit in. None of the kids wanted to hang out with me because I wasn't Korean enough to them. My mother is Korean and my father is Caucasian making me mixed. I started school when I was 2 and since starting school have never felt like I belonged. As I've grown I've learned that I don't want to fit in and am quite proud of who I am, but as a child it was the only thing I wanted and left me insecure for years.

You in Middle Childhood

This was the point in my life where I was the most insecure. At this point in my life I had already felt excluded and left out from everything and was in the stage where I resented everything about myself. Later on in my life is when I finally started to accept myself for who I was but as a young adolescent I didn't realize that acceptance was an option. The best part of this time was that I started to make friends that were like me. I was finally able to fit in to a certain degree. I had always had a pretty good relationship with the adults in my life because they appreciated how level-headed and mature I was. Teachers saw me as a role model for other students. My parents did as well because I was the oldest. I was able to relax around my other family members because they did not expect much from me. I've always had a very good relationship with my mother's side of the family. During childhood I really wished more adults had noticed how much I was struggling, especially when it came to learning. Many teachers did not think anything of my learning abilities because I was able to get my work done in time. I have always had trouble focusing but neither my parents or teachers noticed because of how good my grades were. I went to checkups regularly and never had any health issues other than the occasional low or high blood pressure. I was never part of any sports teams as a child, sports never interested me. I used to swim a lot during the summer which was my main source of exercise during the hot months.

Inside the brains of babies and children

Something new I learned is how babies can think at sometimes higher emotional levels then we as adults realize. A way that we can start thinking more like children is to start thinking more about other people and what they are thinking. As adults, we are usually so caught up in ourselves and our own lives that we don't have the time to be curious about other people like babies do. This is a way where babies are more emotionally in tune with themselves then we are. She focuses heavily on babies' reactions to things. She spends a whole segment talking about an experiment with a cracker and broccoli that were fed to a baby. I'm not entirely sure what Dr. Gopnik means by the quote but I assume it means that being a baby means you have no worries, that it feels like life is just easier and beautiful.

Inside the Teenage Brain

When I was an adolescent I know that my sleep schedule drastically changed from when I was younger. I used to wake up at 8 in the morning on the weekends as a young child. Once I hit adolescents, I started waking up way past noon on the weekends. It was very difficult for me to wake up on school days. It would've been great if schools could accommodate to adolescents by making school days start later. It would've tremendously helped me in middle school. In my later years of high school, school started 30 minutes later then the original time we used to start at. The brain develops more maturely during adolescence. As we grow our brain starts to develop into an adults and adolescence is when it develops the most and fastest. When I was an adolescent I grew in height very quickly in a very short amount of time. I also know that everyday I was becoming more mature. I would notice that things that bothered me before stopped bothering me.

Discussion Project

Nature vs Nurture has been a huge debate for decades. Many people know that nature and nurture is what affects us and makes us into the people we grow up to be. However, since the topic has been discussed everybody has pitted the both against each other. If we really look at the topic we can see that nature and nurture together is what shapes people. Both experiences co-exist together to form a person. One does not matter more than the other, both must exist together in order for us to understand why a person is the way they are. Both experiences together is what makes people act a certain way or react to things in a certain way.