Republic of the Philippines
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
Case Study Child Development
Child Family Background
For my case study I was able to witness the development of my younger sister Lorie because I
was the one who took care of her since birth. Lorie, 6 years old girl born on Christmas Day , December 25,
2015, has a brown eyes and a slightly curled hair who is currently studying in her 1st grade. Before entering
into a school , I was the one who teaches Lorie basics knowledge for her age.
Lorie is the youngest in the family. She has five siblings. She usually slept besides her mother.
Every night before sleeping she drinks milk she cant sleep without drinking it. She usually wake up around
five in the morning and had a hobby of waking up everyone in the house. Lorie goes to school at seven in
the morning , her favorite food is chicken nuggets. Her mother sends her to school with her 10 years old
brother and the picks her up around twelve in the afternoon. In her first week she always cries whenever
her mother will leave her side, but after a week she already make some friends and enjoy in their
classroom. Lorie is a talkative girl who always seek for the attention of everyone. She likes dresses and
headbands. Her favourite color is pink and sky blue.
Lorie is from a middle class family. Both her parents are originally from Bacolod City snd
Hiligaynon as their native Language. Her mother is a laborer while her father is a security guard. They had
Lorie at the age of 39. Lorie is closed to her grandmother because every Sunday they will go to visit her
grand mother. Lorie’s best friend and playtime is also her cousins on the father side. They were at the
same age so they really enjoy being with each other. Lorie grows up in a peaceful environment where she
can really enjoy being young. Their neighborhood was surrounded by her close relative that’s why they
enjoy every holiday just like Christmas and New Year also Birthday celebrations.
Republic of the Philippines
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Growth
According to Erik Erikson Stages of Psychosocial Development, it focuses on the conflicts we
experiences starting from birth to adulthood. Lorie grew properly during her newborn and toddler years.
Lorie's pregnancy was typical. Loriecel, Lorie's mother, opted to breastfeed her as an infant rather to give
her formula. Lorie accomplished all of the essential milestones as a toddler, including starting to walk at the
age of fifteen months. Lucas continued to mature normally as a toddler to a preschooler, with only one tiny
hiccup. Lorie shattered her first bone when she was two years old while playing in the woods behind her
house with her dogs. She is forty-two inches tall and weighs roughly forty-six pounds at four years old. The
majority of her growth occurred during the toddler years, as it should.
Strength
Lorie can run, jump, walk up and down stairs alone, dress and undress, and use the bathroom on
her own by the age of five. I've seen Lorie run or jump numerous times, whether it's to tackle someone
during roughhousing, to jump on the trampoline, or both while playing with her cousin. Because it took her a
long time, using the restroom is a huge accomplishment for her. She still has to practice jumping and using
scissors. Lorie's physical development is on track.
Areas for future growth
As for my observation, Lorie needed more development in her fine motor skills, such us
coordination with her hands , as I have said Lorie still needs to practice using scissors because without
right coordination it can harm or or worse than that.
School Based Activity
To help Lorie with her fine motor skills school should conduct more activities related to the
improvement of a child coordination between their small muscles just like their wrist and hands.
Republic of the Philippines
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
Home Based Activity
To help Lorie , I suggest that mother should buy her some toys related to cutting that Lorie can
play with her brother or her cousin , but of course still with the guide of the old ones in the house.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT/ LANGUAGE
Growth
Lorie's cognitive growth is progressing at a normal rate, as is her physical development.
According to Piaget, at the Pre operational stage, the child learns through the use of language. I've
witnessed each of these traits in Lorie throughout her life. She developed through the building blocks of
language, beginning with babbling and progressing to her first word about fifteen months and first phrase a
little later. I don't recall ever being concerned about her growth. She is currently speaking in whole
sentences of various lengths and intents. She adores watching television episodes about princess, and if
given the opportunity, she will spend a significant amount of time, often up to twenty minutes, telling her
listener everything about them.
Strength
Lorie's cognitive development is increasing on a daily basis, and she appears to be on her way
to reaching all the essential benchmarks. Her linguistic skills are improving on a daily basis, and she is
Learning to try new things on her own while keeping in mind that she can always ask for assistance.
Areas for improvement
Even though Lorie excel in using language cognitively at a young age , sometimes she still still
slip up. One time I heard her saying “ I want eat” , It shows that Lorie still needs to learn forming sentences
grammatically correct.
Home Based Activity
One on one talk with Lorie’s mother or sister can be a great help to improve her grammatical
errors.Watching tv shows or movies can also be a big factor to help her.
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CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
School Based Activity
There are many activities prepared in school, so I suggest Lorie should be more active on
joining those activities , just like reading or making a short story that can be guided and corrected by her
teacher.
SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Growth
During her pregnancy with Lorie, her mother avoided drugs, alcohol, and other substances that
appear to raise the chances of or cause social or personality disorders. The outcome was as anticipated;
Lorie hit all of the essential milestones in infancy and toddler hood. She, for example, could always express
a wide range of emotions. She was fast to display her happiness, grief, bewilderment, or fear to observers.
She also swiftly established a strong bond with her parents, brothers, and friends. Lorie was a child who
needed and wanted to be with her mother and would cry or seek for her if she was separated from her.
Lorie was able to learn that she could trust people after obtaining both of them, allowing her to smoothly
move from toddler hood to the pre -school age.
Strength
According to Albert Bandura’s theory of Social Learning, a child learn through observation.As
per Lorie, she can easily show or express what she feels through the observation in her environment
mainly inside her home. Every time her brother get a scolding she can see that her brother cries, so when
you raise your voice to her unintentionally she will automatically cry.
Areas for improvement
Although Lorie is good in expressing her emotion she still should be aware of the things that
she will going to mimic. She still has to know that not all the things that she is seeing is for her to imitate.
And Lorie also needed to control her feeling especially when she is throwing a tantrums.
Republic of the Philippines
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
School Based Activity
In order for Lorie to have an idea on how to control her feelings or to avoid having tantrums,
Teacher should talk more about her students emotion or situation.
Home Based Activity
Lorie’s parents and siblings should always be aware of their actions and should always talk
calmly and mother or any of them should always explain things to Lorie so that also her can be aware of
the things in her environment.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Growth
Lorie at the age of six already build a relationship with others. Other than her cousins who also
grew her side, she has a lot of friend in school. She always wants to be with them to play , share her toys
and foods. After the day ends, she will always talk about what happened to her day what games they play
and anything about her friends. Lorie is a soft girl that’s why elders always want to with her , she would kiss
you , hug you and all. Lorie always wants an attention from people she likes it when someone is
complementing her dress , her headband and her things. Lorie is a cheerful kid and as he grow socializing
is not that hard for her.
Strength
Lorie as a cheerful kid she can enjoy in a place where she doesn’t know anyone. It was easy for her
to make friends in a short period of time.Well in Lorie’s family everyone in the neighborhood gets along well
and its their norm that everyone should be included and invited if there is an celebration. In accordance to
the theory of Sociocultural Development of Lev Vygotsky, a person cognitive development is largely
influenced by their surrounding. Lorie is largely influenced by the culture that she used to do and able to
apply it to herself.
Republic of the Philippines
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
Areas for improvement
Lorie being a social person can also result to disagreement, Lorie is a very short temper kid
that’s why she still need to improve in resolving conflicts.
School Based Activity
Collaboration is one of the best ways to develop learners socialization. They will get to know
their different opinions that they can also use in everyday basis in life.
Homes Based Activity
Everything start at home, Parent and children should firstly build a good relationship with each
other. Parents can set a 1 day family day to able to know what their children is experiencing outside their
home.
CONCLUSION
Observing my sister's development has taught me a lot about how preschoolers behave and
why they do what they do. I had a great time seeing Lorie grow. I can't say I'm thrilled with how I handled
everything during the project, but I'm satisfied for the most part. I was able to bring the lectures and
information from class to life by determining Lorie's specific characteristics in the areas of physical,
cognitive, language, and socio emotional growth. Because Lorie is my youngest sister, I have been around
Lorie since his birth and have seen her go through growth changes. However, I've heard other family
members complain about how far behind she'll be when she enters school.This assignment allowed me to
see things from a more professional, outside perspective. While I am pleased to learn about Lorie's
progress, I wish I could have observed her at different times and locations. I was able to do a great deal. I
now have a lot better understanding of where a preschool-aged child is cognitively, emotionally, and
physically, and if that is the age group I opt to work with,
Republic of the Philippines
CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tanza Campus
Bagtas, Tanza, Cavite
(046) 414-3979
www.cvsu.edu.ph
I will be better equipped after this . I really appreciated being able to step out of my family position and view
how Lorie is from a different, more professional standpoint if I happen to teach a different grade, I have a
pretty good concept of where the child has been and what he/she has already gone through.
