I thought I would share with you some of my findings from the case study. After reading Chapter 6 yesterday I found that the book gave a lot of information on theories with child development but no actual parenting suggestions. So for my case study I called my friends’ mothers and got their feedback on cognitive development with infants. I recorded each mothers age and occupation to see if there was a correlation between the two. When I researched their opinions and findings with that of psychologists they were very similar. Most of the mom’s really emphasized the importance of creativity as did that of the article. They said that they had their kids do a lot of coloring exercises to work on cognitive development with color association. All the mothers had different methods of developing cognition with their toddlers so hearing the different views was really interesting. The article said that teaching your toddler math and words was not as effective as doing it naturally. But a lot of the mothers I spoke to used flashcards and read a lot to their children. One mother felt that social interaction with other babies was the most important way to help with a child’s’ cognition. She felt that learning through deferred imitation was very helpful. Although they all had different views they all agreed that it was best to be in close proximity with your child instead of letting them be independent at such a young age.
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