Mindblogling!

The following is yet another paper I wrote from high school, probably around 1996, about 11-ish years before I actually had a baby.  The class was Life Skills and I had the choose to take one of those “real life” dolls(that “pee”, cry and all that) for a couple days or do a report on babies at the time.  I took the intelligent and less involved route, the report.  The follow is that.  Prepare to be edu-ma-cated my good internet peebles.

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Joe
Life Skills
Baby Report
Baby Steps

Introduction:

I’m during a report about some general things about parenting and raising a baby.  I got most of my information from the Internet and some books.  Some things about parenting you should remember is not to be hard on your child and don’t push him/her to hard.  It is nice to see them grow up and learn and to teach them.

You were a kid once:

You should remember that you were a kid once, and you should try to remember what you disliked about your parents and try to avoid that.  Do your own parenting but remember to do the right thing and stand by your desicion.  According to one person when we were small we looked up to the older people and envied their height so we wanted to grow-up faster.

Development of the mind:

During this time it is said that small children start to mimic the people they are around.  They start to see, hear and copy words.  You should watch the words you tell your children or just around children.  You shouldn’t use a lot of should, must, don’t and those types of words.  Also parents start molding their child with proper behavior and values.
Parents should watch how far they push their kids.  Also children are sensitive around this time because a lot of things can influence them easily.

Parental Repetition:

Children during this time start absorbing the things that parents say.  They start becoming more fimilar with the commands that parents tell them and the parents expect their child to comply, but it is said that they drift away from what they are told the more they are told it.  The parent should use emotions along with commands because emotions get across a lot better because they understand them more.

Childs curious nature:

Around this time is when the child becomes more and more curious of his/hers surroundings and starts fiddling with things.  You should watch your kids during this time because they do a lot of crazy things like playing with large things and putting things in their mouth.  This is a step that everyone takes to become who they are.

Kids touchiness:

This is the time that every child goes through when they are told they can’t have something.  Like when you are going through(or by) a toy store and they ask for a toy, you say no, and they start bawling.  You have to be careful what you say around them during these times because they  are very touchy.  If they don’t get what they want, then they get mad.  You don’t want your kids mad.

To be, or not to be:

Kids are really into their surroundings and want to fit in with everything around them.  They will want to fit in.

Behavior patterns:

Kids start to copy the behavior patterns of the people around them and they get influenced more.  You must watch what you do around them.  You shouldn’t swear or make rude gestures because they have been known to copy them and use them in public.

Personality:

A childs personality starts to be built now.  It is affected by a lot of things around it.  It is mostly affected by the things living with it.  It will see you do something and slowly adapt it in to a part of its experiences.  It learns and adapts from experience and kids will try anything because of their curiousness.

Summary:

Kids are affected by a lot of things in the enviroment around it.  The most influence around it is the ones in the house and what it sees daily.  All the time while raising a child you should watch what you do around it because it will start seeing/absorbing and immitating everything it sees.  Children are easily influenced by the things around them until they get to the age of 7 or 8.  That is about they age they start gaining individuality and learning on their own more often.

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Hot damn, what an awesome report chalk full of very informative information.  Thanks again for another great surfing session and report output internet!