Question

discussion about educating others about infant

Pretend you are talking with a friend about your summer and you mention that you are taking an Infant Toddler course and that you just finished an observation of an eight-month-old infant.

Your friend has no experience with infants or toddlers and states, "How can you do an observation on an infant, they don't do anything?"  

How do you respond to their comment?  

In a discussion, share with your fellow classmates what you would say or do.

Here are a few things to remember:

1. All of us know a lot about some things and very little about new topics. So how can you respond without intimidating or putting down your friend? Be respectful.  

2. This is a wonderful opportunity to get them to look at infants differently. What might you do?

Answer 1

1.The better way to respond without intimidating or putting down an individual or friend is by

• Encourage the friend to observe the baby instead of establishing conversation which is done in adults .This itself can provide a lot of clue and assessment about the baby by seeing ,touching and by feeling the baby .
• The best way is to examine the baby from head to toe .To widen the knowledge level this assessment can be correlated with the adult assessment and learnt