Over the last 2-3 weeks I have been involved in collecting research and data to enable me to write an 8-10 page paper with this title: "Bedtime Stories: Recognizing Their Effect on Child Development."
We had to choose a family story and then base our paper off that. I decided to choose all of my family stories and write about their effect on child development because it is actually something which I am interested in.
This semester I am taking a child development class so I knew that I would have a lot of background knowledge on the subject and also lots of sources to back up my information. One thing which I really enjoyed was going to the library. We were taught how to find resources on their online data base which is so huge. I had no idea it was so incredible, it makes me feel blessed to be here - even more than I felt before.
I found this paper challenging to write in some ways because it was such a scientific paper. I wrote about social, emotional, and cognitive development. I found myself using terms which I was unfamiliar with, but this definitely helped broaden my knowledge on the subject. At least if I don't get an A in my writing paper I should get one in my child development class!
I also found this paper rewarding. It helped me reach out and ask my grandparents for some information, and I reflected on my own family stories. Being so far away from home, this was a nice way to remember funny stories from my own childhood and reminisce on the good times when my parents would read my sister and I bedtime stories.
When I started the paper I had a theory about what affect I thought child development had, but by the end of the paper I realized that I actually do believe that children can be affected by the social interaction that bedtime stories provide.
I know what tradition I want to begin when I have my own children, based on my own experience and also my research.
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