Things that are crappy
Apr. 11th, 2004 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holly_evolvingI am sick. It might be a bad cold, it might be the flu, it might be bronchitis. It sucks.
Moving day is next Sunday. I hate moving.
The Late October Show has been moved to Thursday night. Anyone interested should still contact me via a comment. I, unfortunately, can no longer attend.
However
My niece now has a name for me. Instead of calling me "Reh," I am now Adedela. I find this too cute for words. She'll be two in a month.
It's interesting to note that she is not going through Piaget's Stranger Anxiety phase. As long as everyone in a room is being polite and friendly, and she doesn't feel that she is being punished, she has no fear of anyone, known or unknown. I believe this to be a result of the constant socializing resulting from her time in daycare. Fortunately, her daycare facility is a really positive environment (her parents wouldn't both work if anything else were the case). There was a point at dinner tonight when my brother and mother were talking too loudly, and she told them, without showing that she was upset, to stop. She's quite self-confident and assertive in any situation at the age of 23 months. I'd love to talk to my old child psych prof, Charles Graham, about this. I was always taught that Stranger Anxiety is part of the toddler's nature, as a defense mechanism against wandering away from the community. I'd love to see what he'd have to say regarding her lack of fear of strangers. She has no desire to run off from a group of people, but she's not afraid of anyone just because she's not used to them. She's not afraid of anyone, period. I have to believe that fear of strangers at any age, then, is learned behavior and not part of nature. I don't know if this has been made public in the child psych field at large, as I haven't studied it in 3 years. But I'd love to know. The effects of a positive daycare setting on social behavior from the age of about five months...Of course, today we frown so much on the idea of daycare (and there are plenty of bad facilities responsible for that) that it would probably be really hard to get funding for the study.
Wow. I don't think I've been that academic in a year or more.
Platypus
Moving day is next Sunday. I hate moving.
The Late October Show has been moved to Thursday night. Anyone interested should still contact me via a comment. I, unfortunately, can no longer attend.
However
My niece now has a name for me. Instead of calling me "Reh," I am now Adedela. I find this too cute for words. She'll be two in a month.
It's interesting to note that she is not going through Piaget's Stranger Anxiety phase. As long as everyone in a room is being polite and friendly, and she doesn't feel that she is being punished, she has no fear of anyone, known or unknown. I believe this to be a result of the constant socializing resulting from her time in daycare. Fortunately, her daycare facility is a really positive environment (her parents wouldn't both work if anything else were the case). There was a point at dinner tonight when my brother and mother were talking too loudly, and she told them, without showing that she was upset, to stop. She's quite self-confident and assertive in any situation at the age of 23 months. I'd love to talk to my old child psych prof, Charles Graham, about this. I was always taught that Stranger Anxiety is part of the toddler's nature, as a defense mechanism against wandering away from the community. I'd love to see what he'd have to say regarding her lack of fear of strangers. She has no desire to run off from a group of people, but she's not afraid of anyone just because she's not used to them. She's not afraid of anyone, period. I have to believe that fear of strangers at any age, then, is learned behavior and not part of nature. I don't know if this has been made public in the child psych field at large, as I haven't studied it in 3 years. But I'd love to know. The effects of a positive daycare setting on social behavior from the age of about five months...Of course, today we frown so much on the idea of daycare (and there are plenty of bad facilities responsible for that) that it would probably be really hard to get funding for the study.
Wow. I don't think I've been that academic in a year or more.
Platypus
