the helping behaviors of children

The Helping Behaviors of Children

The children being observed arrived at this daycare between the hours of 8am and 9am. When they arrive there they are led into a room of bright colors. The walls are painted bright white with children art and posters plastered from floor to ceiling. There is a wall of portraits of the seven children and then a drawing that they did themselves of themselves. There is no TV in the room yet there is a shelf full of videos. There are three bookshelves full of children books. There are three art easels with poster paper draped over them. There are two tables that the children may sit at. The children decided that there would be one girl table and one boy table.
Around noon the observation began. The children were just finishing their paintings. The daycare provider asked them politely to finish up their last strokes and get ready to clean up. The daycare provider was the teacher, the baby-sitter and the person who handled discipline. During...