medicating young minds

This weeks material about the young mind and how many things that can contribute to the child's development is so very fascinating. I think that they should wait to medicate a child until they reach teenager years or later because their brain is still developing and beginning to understand things between right and wrong. When they medicate too young they miss out on that development  they may even fall  behind other kids in school because it can change their moods and alter their thinking. The article this week had so many good points behind medicating young children sometimes it's just one of too much of a good thing kind of ideas or not enough and they can't control what they are doing. They have to have a happy medium with the help of a psychologist keeping an eye on how they behave on that certain medication to tell if this is actually working to help the condition or make it worse. It's amazing how much a kid can remember and how far back it was their brain is so very strong and just keeps developing and getting stronger until it's mature enough to make the right decisions. Sometimes we don't realize what kinds of decisions our kids are making,but it's because they don't know the difference between right and wrong yet. What they think they're doing is right when in fact it might not be. It comes with age wisdom and development that kids will learn the difference between right and wrong.

week three post

this week had a lot of fascinating information in it about how babies build bonds with their parents. Attachment is so important in a babies development without attachment to the mother it would not be able to sense the environment and no what to do without the mother the baby will cry and wait for mom to comeback, but when she does the baby can be very relieved which is secure attachment and then they can go back to what they are doing. Avoidant attachment which is where the baby turns it's head like it's mad at the mom for leaving and they feel like oh geesh mom left me again which is not a good place to be in. Then finally resistant attachment which is even worse like why did you leave me when I needed you which is one of the worst most for the baby. Babies need secure attachments to their mother for them to be able to have hope, will, determination, and not feel isolated and alone. Another interesting thing was about the gender stereotypes sometimes parents push their kids to play with the same sex because they think that girls are more gentle and soft, but a lot of the times some of the girls like to do those same things. I think we just think our kids should play with the same sex because it might feel awkward for them to play with the opposite sex on something like playing in the sand or something involving getting dirty. Thanks for listening to my spiel.

prenatal development and birth

it's so very fascinating on how our genes can determine who we are and how are personality comes to be. I really found it very interesting that low serotonin levels actually made the kid have a more calm personality. whereas the higher serotonin levels produced an elevated heart rate and had more of an angry personality. Through our development and our parents guiding hands we can turn out who we want to be. Our chromosomes is where the disorders arise because there is at least one chromosome that is damaged or destroyed and if that is the dominant allele then the child will get that allele. This is what produces diseases like down's syndrome or any of the chromosomal disorders. These kinds of things are very fascinating. It made me think that if I would of had an extra chromosome or some kind of birth defect in my genes that I would of ended up with a serious mental disorder it's very fascinating how our genes control everything about us.

nature vs. nuture

I found this chapter very interesting on how all of those psychologists had came up with these different methods of finding out how they came up with these theories that has made psychology what it is today. It's how we can determine what we may find what is causing someone to have behaviors that don't seem normal. For example, how someone who has been calm all through their life and then all of the sudden they snap and become out of control. Knowing that the theory of the bio psychological framework we can then get to the bottom of what might be causing their problem in the first place and actually help them through what they might be feeling.