Please help with the following assignment example. I have a similar one to submit and would like a reference:
Compose thoughtful answers to the following "developmental difficulties." Explain how you would use your understanding of one of the major theories (focusing particularly on Piaget and Erikson) to deal with each of the difficulties listed below more constructively.
- A well-intentioned, but meddling, relative comes to visit the weekend before your child's first birthday, in April. She cautions you that you must be spoiling the child, because he hides behind your leg and clings to you when she tries to give him a hug, and he did not do this when she visited at New Year's. How will you explain what is happening with your child?
- Your three-year old constantly drives you nuts with attention-seeking behaviors while you are on the phone.
- Your infant daughter puts everything in her mouth, including the dog's food.
- Your eight-year old son is failing math; all he cares about is baseball.
- Your eight-year old son is failing P.E. and growing obese; all he cares about is Nintendo.
- Your teenager has decided not to attend college in favor of joining the stage crew for a touring rock band.
- Your nine-year old son is being victimized by the class bully.
- Your nine-year old son IS the class bully. (NOTE: Pay close attention to the difference between the scenarios described in Questions 7 and 8.)
- Your two-year old daughter refuses to wear the clothes you pick for her every morning, making getting dressed a twenty-minute pitched battle.
- Your thirty-six-year old friend is showing symptoms of the classic "mid-life crisis," buying a trendy new sports car, flirting dangerously, and alluding to leaving his wife.
- Your sixty-eight-year old neighbor is chronically depressed, feeling she has wasted her life.
This is a Major Graded Assignment (MGA), so take your time and carefully integrate the concepts as presented in your text with the issues at hand in each vignette. Your responses should NOT be in the form of an integrated essay; rather, you should concentrate on each vignette (listed above) separately, with the goal of applying these developmental concepts to assist you in facing these real-life situations. One or two paragraphs per vignette will probably suffice but use your discretion to ensure each vignette if fully addressed in your response. Some responses may be longer than others. Prepare responses in a single Word document, labeling each response carefully, and submit as an attachment using this Major Assignment - Developmental Difficulties Assignment Tool.