Family and home
Khushi is an only child who lives with her mother, her father and her grandmother. This means that she is part of an extended family. The area that Khushi lives in is a small town.
Being an only child means that Khushi is spoilt and feels that she is important which is good for building confidence, but it can also mean that she often gets her own way or pulls a tantrum if she doesn’t.
Khushi has cousins living near her and one of them is about the same age as her. I feel that she doesn’t feel comfortable near other children as she is no longer the centre of attention and therefore finds it hard to share and play with other children. Khushi does go to a nursery but does not enjoy going.
Khushi has her own bedroom with a cot, her own wardrobe and lots of toys yet she chooses not to sleep in it. This may be because she feels too separated from her parents and yearns for their love and attention.
Inside Khushi normally plays in her bedroom with her learning box which includes sorting out colours and shapes, learning numbers and the alphabet.
Khushi has a slide and swing set outside to play on. This helps her physical development. i.e. climbing, swinging etc. there is a gate at the side of the house to enable that Khushi doesn’t run outside on her own or that nobody comes in.
Physical development
Gross motor skills
I took Khushi to a park to test if her gross motor skills were developing well.Khushi showed me that she can run forward with accuracy by racing me to the slide showing spatial awareness to the other apparatus by run around them. . where she then showed me that she can walk up the slide stairs, two feet to a step, whereas she should be able to do it one foot to a step.
Khushi can throw a large ball using an overhand technique and can catch a ball while putting one hand over the other to catch it. she can kick a ball but not in a straight line. I am not sure if Khushi can pedal a tricycle as she does not have access to one.
Fine motor skills
Khushi can hold a pencil in an improved tripod grasp but is still just scribbling on the page and can’t draw anything that looks real. Khushi can build tall towers of bricks containing up to 15-18 bricks using a palmer grasp.Khushi knows how to fasten the buttons on her jacket using a inferior pincer grasp.
Sensory
Khushi can identify different colours including red, blue, yellow and green. while playing with her building blocks, she tries to make a tower of each colour for example a red tower would contain all red blocks.
Intellectual development
Intellectual: concepts
Khushi is beginning to understand the concept of time and what and when it is time to do certain things like go to sleep or time to eat. She can now concentrate for longer periods of time and enjoys being creative and pretend play. For example she likes to play ‘mums and dads’. Khushi can count up to ten in English and up to five in Punjabi (her mother tongue)
Intellectual: language
Khushi’s vocabulary is very large and almost close to adult speech. She can now use longer sentences and is able to speak two languages(English and Punjabi)Khushi is more fluent in Punjabi as it is the language that she is used to hearing and speaking at home. Khushi is also able to speak English but can’t speak in full sentences and normally using the two languages together as she does not see the difference between them. Khushi normally ‘practises’ speaking, by talking to herself, during play. she likes talking to her dolls.
Emotional and social development
Emotional
Khushi has outgrown separation anxiety and will happily play alone with out her parents being there. She does not worry about her parents leaving her because she knows that they will come back. Khushi still has temper tantrums and tries to get her own way what ever it takes.
Social
Khushi still find it difficult to share things with other children. Khushi is normally dry though out the night but she has to be repeatedly asked if she needs to go to the toilet in the day. She will also need an adult to wait outside for her while in the toilet. Khushi is still in nappies. Khushi prefers to play on her own than with other children. She doesn’t enjoy going to nursery and playing with the other kids because she has to leave her mum for 2 hours and play with strangers. She normally throws a tantrum and cries so let her mum take her home.
