The interview will cover early childhood developmental stage from the age of two to six. This qualitative and descriptive interview addresses how and to what extent the early life of a child is essential for social, cognitive, physical, and language development. This interview was conducted between the student and a parent as the interviewee.
Question 1
Interviewer: How has the environment where you live impacted your child’s physical and cognitive development?
Interviewee: The environment has positively impacted his physical and cognitive development. The child has grown big. He was short and chubby, to my dismay; he has become tall, with reduced baby fats. He is ever on running activities; he pushes everything he comes by, tries to swing on ropes, climbs and balances on the playground. Additionally, he has developed more muscle mass. His cognitive development is dramatic as well. The child has become more creative, and he has mastered more skills in building reasons and concepts such as concrete foundations. Actually, the child spends most of his time asking questions. He tends to question everything that surrounds him.
According to the response, it means the child’s brain goes under dramatic alteration called myelination (Lourenço, 2016). It adds that the environment has a long-term and short-term effect on the child’s development. Moreover, it is meaningful because when the environment is unfavorable, the child’s brain response system can be interrupted. Thus it does not go against the theories since environment reduces or hastens the physical and cognitive development of a child.
Question 2
Interviewer: How would you describe your child’s imagination?
Interviewee: His imagination is his window to possibilities. He has been creative, ingenious, and thinks outside the box.
According to Lourenço (2016), it means that the child has the ability to form different pictures in his mind. It shows that the child is ever forming things that no adult has seen and experienced. This is meaningful since it shows that the child has developed the ability to ponder new things. It provides more evidence because imagination nurtures cognitive and physical development. Moreover, it builds his emotional development, therein, allowing the child to contemplate various resolutions which can boost his confidence.
Question 3
Interviewer: Do you have any concerns with how he/she plays?
Interviewee: Yes, I am so much concerned with how he plays because he must observe how his social and emotional development can be well-coordinated.
According to the response, children at this stage are more interested in their body parts as well as others. They tend to copy their friends and parents. Significantly, it means that children learn a lot about shape, color, causes and effects. It adds that a child is likely to learn more about social and psychomotor skills.
It is important and does not go against any theory of development because it enables a child to become more creative, enjoy exploration, and abide by rules. The response has clinical implications on how to nurture social problems in early childhood (Lourenço, 2016).
Question 4
Interviewer: When did your child master their first sentence? Do you remember the sentence?
Interviewee: At thirty-sixth month, he could speak several words and phrases. Yes, I remember the sentence.
It means the child develops at age three and is capable of acquiring an average of 800- 900 words. He stated that “only 80% of these words are intangible because children make three words in a sentence short of more complex semantic and syntactic structures” (Lourenço, 2016). At this stage, it is evident that a child talks incessantly, thus the response adds to clinical developmental research by not going against some theory of development.
Question 5
Interviewer: How often does your child watch television?
Interviewee: He watches television for two hours a day.
As per the response, it means watching television for more than three hours has a negative impact on a child since it lowers language skills acquisition. When a child lacks physical activities, they risk developing physically and cognitively. This is meaningful and adds clinical research because it states that the brain of a child is genetically automated to develop more efficiently if exposed to a setting that has remained basically unchanged. This response provides more evidence because when a child is exposed to television too much, their social interactions, language acquisition, and social experience are hindered leading to misunderstanding of their self-awareness.
Question 6
Interviewer: Has your child ever been aggressive?
Interviewee: Yes, the child has always been aggressive.
Aggressiveness at this age, which is between two to six years is a development stage; the child is learning a lot of skills at this stage, from playing with their toys, trying to figure out what they are to say in complicated sentences. This learning process can easily lead to frustration when things are not working out for them. For example, when a toy is not responding when they want it to respond and do as they want. This is a normal growing process in children and mostly leads to aggressiveness.
References
Lourenço, O. M. (2016). Developmental stages, Piagetian stages in particular: A critical review. New Ideas in Psychology, 40, 123-137.
