Reminder- here are your questions. The expectation is 2 pages per question (5 questions, so 10 pages total). Double spaced is totally fine. APA format is preferred if you know it, but no specific format is required.
20 points per question, 100 points total
Part 1*: What were some of the physical challenges he/she faced?
What stages during your child’s life were you most concerned with his/her physical development?
How did you work as a parent to help them overcome them?
Give specific parenting strategies you utilized to handle physical challenges.
Part 2*: What were some of the cognitive challenges he/she faced?
What stages during your child’s life were you most concerned with his/her cognitive development?
How did you work as a parent to help them overcome them?
Give specific parenting strategies you utilized to handle cognitive challenges.
Part 3*: What were some of the social challengeshe/she faced?
What stages during your child’s life were you most concerned with his/her social development?
How did you work as a parent to help them overcome them?
Give specific parenting strategies you utilized to handle social challenges.
*Note for Parts 1-3: If you think your child didn’t face any specific challenges for those areas of development, you should discuss more general challenges that most children face, and describe strategies that you used to help your child overcome those challenges without much difficulty.
Part 4: Go back and reread the discussion board threads your group had on Canvas and reflect on your comments to your group-mates from each time period. Indicate which parents you believe did an excellent job raising their virtual child and explain why you selected them. In your own words, construct 3 parenting tips you can learn from different parents for each stage: (i.e., 3 for infancy, 3 for early childhood, 3 for middle childhood, and 3 for adolescence) (12 tips total). Make sure to attribute your comments to specific parents (not including specific group members’ names will nullify this answer and result in a 0 for this question).
Try not to use the same parents more than twice! *copying and pasting the classmates’ posts, or your initial discussion responses is plagiarism!
Part 5: Reflect on the different researchers you have learned about regarding child and adolescent development.
Explain** how the teaching of those researchers / theorists influenced your approach as a parent and how you integrated their teachings into your parenting philosophy.
Select 3 of your favorite researchers whose teachings particularly influenced how you parented your virtual child for each stage: (i.e., 3 for infancy, 3 for early childhood, 3 for middle childhood, and 3 for adolescence), and potentially informed how you plan to interact with real life children moving forward (12 researchers total). Make sure you include Mickey Mouse as one of the people you mention.
Try not to use the same researchers more than twice (e.g, Piaget can be used for two time periods for different reasons, but not more)!
**Do not just describe the theories, explain how they helped you!
Reminder: The use of AI / Bots (e.g., ChatGPT) is not allowed for the purposes of crafting the narratives in your responses. Any suspected use will be flagged and will result in failure of the assignment. Please do your own original academic work and don’t plagiarize or try to take shortcuts.
