Virtual Child Program Case Study

I want to start about by saying I enjoyed the My Virtual Child program. There is nothing I disliked about it When I learned we would be doing this program for the class I was very excited! It was everything I thought it would be. I say this because it was more so hands on and it connected my readings in the book to what might be going on with an actual child in real life.

As a mother of three school-aged children, I assumed this my virtual child project would be redundant. Naturally, I thought what could this project teach me about parenting that I did not already know. Consequently, as it turns out, there are a lot of things I did not know or wish I had known before I became a mom. I assumed the My Virtual Child project would be unrealistic and lacking in real life situations. Consequently, the program turned out to be exciting and very realistic. This paper will discuss my virtual child experiment including my daughter, parenting skills, and overall course reflections.

Casey is in a situation that is very tough to judge. If I were in the position to suggest something to Casey I would tell her to befriend Mariah and defy the odds. Anyone can be in the same position as Mariah. As a person that has been that oddball or person that people don’t want to hang around, the best way to break someone out of that is just to simply talk to them. Casey might be surprised and even amazed at some of the things that Mariah has seen, experienced or thought of. Mariah already feels isolated because she is new and does not bend in with crowd and isolation can lead to many other problems down the road.

In the young adult novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda called the police at a high school party while going into freshman year. This unfairly made her instant an outcast and loner. Because of the rape, Melinda lost friends and interest in school and activities. As her art project, Melinda is assigned to draw a tree and she realizes that this project is harder than it seems.

Family and systems around oneself can impact him or her greatly. In The Secret Life of Bees, the two different family structures, one with a single father and the other with four loving strangers, have impacted Lily, an adolescent, differently. As Lily develops to become more vocal and independent, she goes against the orders by her father who (she believes) never cared for or loved her. Throughout Lily’s life, she unknowingly experienced so many things and learned so many important life lessons- that she is slowly heading towards self-determination where she does not depend on her father anymore.

Aging is a phenomena not only of the body, but of the mind as well. It is situational in practice, giving each journey into adulthood its own “thumbprint”. One’s trials and tribulations gain emotional weight as they are encountered, but the weight one holds at certain periods of time can differ according to their background. The novels Flight, The Joy Luck Club, and The Glass Castle; however, enlighten the possibility of resembling another’s venture into maturity, despite distinct differences in general conditions. Together, these three novels endeavor into their protagonists’ personalities, and they thematically portray coming-of-age transformation.

“ I used to be furious with Mummy, and still am sometimes.” This shows that Anne still gets angry with her mother, but not all the time. This shows that her relationship with her mother is getting better because Anne used to get mad at her mother all the time. In that sentence she said “sometimes” . Sometimes means not all the time, but often. Anne used to get mad at her mother all the time, but now, it happens less.

Lily’s insecurity is displayed through her actions in school when encountering the more popular girls, “I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I as a bleeding wreck” (Kidd 9). For instance, Lily’s act of shying away from others and picking at her scabs helped to emphasize her discomfort when people she considered her betters, in style at least, surrounding Lily and reminding her about her own less than satisfactory personal looks. Furthermore, her self-consciousness, along with her inborn daringness led her to run away from home, and take Rosaleen with her. In brief, the lack of parental guidance for Lily led her to be slightly unstable, and embarrassed about herself in general led her to run away from home, and the instability caused her to start stealing and lying.

Author of the American Childhood Annie Dillard and Fashion of a text William Faulkner wrote in his speech for the Noble Prize acceptance speech the Writer's Duty. In the banquet speech he proclaimed to motivate humanity simply by of never giving up. "I believe that's man will not only endure, he will prevail," by this he was saying that humanity can only overcome the labors and horrors of the war. Annie Dillard successfully introduced the the theme of the story but also successfully accomplish the writer's duty of never giving up. William Faulkner's Noble Prize acceptance speech discusses the writer's duty, the purpose authors try to fulfill but many fail doing so. The writer's duty is to write about "compassion, and sacrifice and endurance." As a author the purpose of writing is to lift the heart of the audience. William Faulkner was concerned with the purpose of "not of love but

The term “Coming of age” displays the personal and intellectual growth and development of a character in a story. It usually starts when the protagonist shows growth from childhood to adulthood. This is the core theme of the semester, seen throughout the novels we read in class. I believe there should be no changes made to the required reading list. The reading list should stay the same because in each individual text, at least one character overcomes a new change and understanding of the world around them. One thing I did question is, “Does coming of age necessarily have to be a good change or can be bad as well?” This question almost challenges what it means to come of age. For example, in Never Let Me Go, it’s almost hard for the characters

My Virtual child has been a great learning experience. Even though it did cover birth up until the age of 18 it nearly scratched the surface of what raising a child reaslly is. Raising children takes a financial, physical, and emotional toll on married couples or single prents. Although I did not have to wake up in the middle of the night to change diapers, physically take my child to the doctor, or even feed my child, I had to make impoirtant decisions for my childs well being which is a huge part of being a parent. This program taight me that raising a child takes huge responsibility. I had to recall what I learned thrououhgt the semester to be able to make the right decisions for my child. I had to m ake important decisions that not only affectred me, but it also affected my child. I had a natural

The purpose of my reflection and artifacts is to provide you with information about my learning skills and experience that I have gained during my studies for the Early Childhood Education program. My experience throughout the course was fun especially on my Virtual Child Assignment because it was an interesting journey. I have discovered about the development and behaviour for my child Neel. This course had a good impact both on me and my learning skills because I had the opportunity to apply my knowledge skills ages and safety, the health and safety practise which I believe is important for a child. Secondly the most important part that I found in the virtual assignment was the working step by step process about the Child’s growth hence, I learned the importance of the health and safety practises which are very important for me to work as an Early Childhood Educator. The most challenging part in the virtual child assignment that had a huge impact on my learning

The main character in the short story “The Moths,” written by Helena Maria Viramontes, is a fourteen-year-old girl that can be considered to being labeled the outcast of her family. The only person the teenage girl confides in (her grandmother) dies a little each day before her eyes. In the beginning of the story, the character labeled as “Bull Hands” was a name her sisters teased her with because her hands were “too big to handle the fineries of crocheting or embroidery” and other dainty things she felt awkwardly obligated to doing. The girl often got whippings to the point to where she was “used to them,” and did not fit in with her sisters and their “girlie” ways.

The author’s major thesis is racial identity so why are someone people are colored blind. Tatum uses her personal experiences and her being a professor. As her children was growing up they had to go through it with her own kids herself having to talked to them about race and how people may not agree on racism and she also use different things to use when she taught as a professor. Having to explain to your kids about racism is very hard because they want to be friends with someone of the different race. From pass experience I have talked to my son about not being prejudice and treat everyone the same. She also explained that children go through puberty they start going through different things in their life and they start questioning who they

Based on Freud’s theory and Ashly’s age, she is at stage 4 or Period of Latency. Ashly has lots of cousins, also, friends from her school. Whenever her mother wants to make a playdate ,she asks to make a playdate just with girls. Ashly used to have a good relationship with boys too, but, recently she just wants to play with girls. She even asked to have a Tea party with her girlfriends for her birthday coming. She loves to dress up as a princess for all day. She loves to spend time in the Ballet and dance classes. This is what happened in stage 4 or Latency base on Freud’s theory. Children in this stage, prefer to play with children of the same gender. Their sexual drives are repressed.