Persona Child Packet: Infancy and Toddlerhood Directions: Your Persona Child

  
Persona Child Packet: Infancy and Toddlerhood
Directions: Your Persona Child is no longer a newborn! Now draw your persona child’s face as an infant or toddler (between 6 months and 2 years old), on a separate sheet of paper. At the end of the semester, your drawing will be part of your Final PPT Presentation. Use information from your chapter readings and/or your imagination to complete the following regarding your persona infant/toddler.  
1. Name of persona infant: 
2. How old is your persona infant? (Your persona child is now between 6 months and 2 years.)
Chapter 3 & 4 : Physical Development
3. What is the purpose of the Apgar: 
4. How was your persona newborn’s Apgar score?
5. Referencing from Chapter 4, based on the age of your persona child (newborn), how long do they sleep each day? 
6. See Table 4.2 (page 95) and 4.3 (page 98) to help you fill in this in about persona infant’s motor development:
◻ Rolling over at what age? _____________
◻ Reaching for objects at what age? _________________
◻ Grasping objects at what age? ___________________
◻ Sits without support at what age? ________________
◻ Crawling at what age? _________________
◻ Standing holding onto furniture at what age? ___________________
◻ Cruising at what age? ______________________
◻ Stands alone at what age? _________________
◻ Walks alone at what age? __________________
◻ Walks upstairs with help at what age? ________________
◻ Jumps in place at what age? ________________
7. The persona infant’s is:
◻ Breastfed
◻ Bottle-fed
◻ Drinking from a cup
10.  How were foods 1st introduced to your persona child? (see page 105)
11. At what age did your persona child start “teething”? (see page 113)
12. Read Chapter 7, page 174 & 175, about Toilet Training then answer the following questions:
· What is your persona child’s family belief about toilet training? 
· How do they believe children should be toilet trained?
· When should the training begin? 
Chapter 5: Cognitive Development
13. At what sub-stage, of the Sensorimotor stage is ______________ at: ______________
   (Child’s Name)
14. Describe how he/she is learning at this stage:
15. Which language development milestones has ____________________ reached? 
16. What are examples of a child’s first words? 1. ______________  2. _______________  3. _______________
Chapter 6: Social Emotional Development
17. Which emotions does your persona infant/toddler express? 
18. How does your persona infant/toddler react to strangers (see page 151 for stranger wariness)?
 
Temperament:
1. Activity level: How active is your persona child? ________________________________________
2. Rhythmicity: How regular are the child’s biological functions, such as eating 
and sleeping? _____________________________________________________________________
3. Approach or withdrawal: Does your persona child respond positively or negatively to 
new situations and people? __________________________________________________________
4. Adaptability: How easily does your persona child adapt to new situations? 
_________________________________________________________________________________
5. Threshold of Responsiveness: How sensitive is your persona child to sensory 
stimulation? ______________________________________________________________________
6. Intensity of Reaction: How intensely does persona child react? _____________________________
7. Quality of Mood: Is your persona child’s mood usually cheerful or unpleasant? ________________
8. Distractibility: How easily is your persona child distracted? _______________________________
9. Attention span and persistence: How long does your persona child stay with a 
particular activity? _________________________________________________________________
19. You would describe your persona infant’s overall temperament to be:
◻ Easy going
◻ Difficult (Feisty)
◻ Slow to Warm Up
◻ Other: ___________________________________________
20. How would you describe your persona infant’s attachment with his/her parent(s)?