Babysitting for Sociology

Over the past seven years I put one across come to learn galore(postnominal) varied things about myself and about children due to baby sitting. I first started babysitting when I was a about eleven years of age. I started off by molding my younger brothers when my pargonnts went out at night. That affected my biological rhythm (274). My body was functiond to exhalation to peacefulness nearly nine oclock since I was s coin bank young, but I had to force myself to stay up so I could watch oer my brothers while they slept. I sometimes found myself staying up till about midnight Since I was so tired from staying up it seemed to have an affect on my sleeping also.It seemed worry I would have more dreams that I could vividly remember the next morning (280). The next join of nights after I babysat, it seemed like by body was on rapid eye movement sleep rebound due to the stages of REM sleep I would miss (276). Now that I am older I have clever my body to be able to stay awak e and non feel like I had sleep derivation the next day (280). During the duration of training my body to stay awake late, I spotledgeable a few things the hard way. I first thought that if I drank a lot of caffein I would be able to stay awake longer and easier.Well that thought nearly ruined me It wasnt soon after I started relying on caffeine that my body became tolerant to it, and it seemed like I couldnt go sleep without it or wake up without it (297) At first it seemed like I was going through and through a withdrawal period (297). My body was craving the caffeine so badly that I felt sick without it. From that experience I have erudite that doing homework or talking on the phone helps me stay awake while I am waiting on the childrens parents to draw home. I am lucky that I have precisely suffered from habituation to caffeine and not drugs.A booster shot of mine became addicted to cocaine due to having to stay awake late for school. When she took that drug she said it make her feel like she could stay awake forever. To stay awake that is what a person wants to feel. Cocaine addiction is a fast track from euphoria to crash (301). Through my many years of experience in babysitting I have well-educated that most children f entirely under the category of associative learning. associatory learning is learning that certain events occur to stick toher (315). For example with most children after everything they do thither is some sort of consequence.Younger kids have a tendency to get into things that they shouldnt. Therefore, after they get into something that is off limits, they get in trouble. After watching kids fall under that category I also realized that many adults fall under it also. It seems like after every action there is a consequence. Here are some examples of kids actions and the responses they get. When a kid eats or drinks, automatically they have to use pee or poop afterwards. That is an example of unconditioned response (317). The s ubstance the kid puts in their mouth is the unconditioned input signal (317).A kid has to use the restroom soon after they eat because they havent quite learned how to control their urges. That is why they sometimes also go the bathroom in their pants. I learned a lot about babysitting through observational learning. Observational learning is observing and intimating others (341). When I was younger and I was unable to baby sit, a close family friend used to come over and watch my brothers and I. I learned a lot of from her. I learned many games from her that I now assemble with the kids I baby-sit. That comes in handy when I try to keep all of the kids occupied.Another thing that I learned from her that comes in handy when babysitting is patience. Patience plays a very big role. Kids repeat things over and over again, in other words they dont know when to quit. That turns into getting on my nerves a lot. I have learned not to let it bother me as much. I have taught myself to con sider a deep breath when that happens and try to get the kids minds on something else. There are two different kinds of reinforcement I use with the kids while I baby-sit. They are positive and negative reinforcement (329).I use positive reinforcement when the kids do something that is good. For example, if they light(a) off their plates after they eat and get everything ready for bed, I will give them a good night treat. If the kids do something bad or if they go against what I tell them to do, I use negative reinforcement. Negative reinforcement may be they do not get a good night treat, they have to go to bed a half an time of day early, or I may even give a bad report to their parents. I only give a bad report to the parents if they didnt listen to me at all, or if they continued to rear talk me.I find a lot that latent learning occurs a lot with the kids also (334). opus I am baby-sitting I try to teach the kids something new every time. Sometimes they pick it in good orde r up other times it takes a while. For example, I try to teach the kids to always wash their give before and after they eat. I teach them by making a point to let them know what I am doing when I wash my hands. Soon after, I will catch one of the kids nerve-wracking to reach the facet to turn it on so they can wash their hands. When it comes to the kids memory, its not very long.It seems like to me that kids only remember things if they really want it. Other than that, they have short destination memory. Short term memory is when you learn something but shortly afterwards you forget what it is (362). For example, when I am helping the kids clean up their room I try to tell them where stuff goes so that they can do it on their own. Well every time it comes to clean up time, they dont remember where anything goes. When ever the kids do remember what I have said or taught them, they are retrieving memories from storage. Storage is the heart of memory (361).Through all of my years of baby-sitting and experiences, I have learned many things about myself and about the kids I watch. I am now able to predict what certain kids are going to do or say at a certain time. I have gotten to know each of their personalities and became familiar with they things they like and the things they dont like. I am also familiar with the things they know and what things they do not know. Through everything the kids put me through and taught me, I have learned a very important thing about myself. I erotic love working with kids and that is what I hope to do in life regardless of what field it is in.