Importance of Emotions for Children - Assignment Example

Action Assignment Being an active mother to school age children, I decided that the best place to discover the positive or negative impact that asmile has on people would be at the their school. It was the logical place for me to enact this experiment because all of the parents that I mingle with on a daily basis there are pressed for time and barely have time to nod to one another as we drop off our kids at the school gates. What I discovered was something that I would not have known had it not been for this particular assignment.

Most of the people whom I crossed paths with were not smiling at the start of our encounter. They mostly seemed deep in thought and in a hurry to get their kids into school so they could go on with their day. However, when I took the time to smile at them as we passed each other, most of them smiled back at me. They seemed puzzled by my smile and, since I was smiling even at the parents whom I did not know personally, I bet some of them were wondering where we had met before. I would like to think that by smiling at them at the start of their work day, I was able to bring a little brightness into their lives and perhaps influenced them into going about their day in a more positive manner than they started out.

On my part, I have to say that I felt very lighthearted and welcoming of the people whom I smiled at. A simple smile on my part was enough to bring a sense of positivism to my day and helped me get through my day without ever feeling cross. That is because each time I would begin to feel weary or irritated, all I had to do was think of the parents whom I exchanged smiles with earlier in the day and everything negative that I felt seemed to melt away. Action Assignment #2 My show of choice for this particular study of non verbal communication and body gestures was Full House starring Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Candace Cameron (Burke), Jodi Sweetin, Lori Loughlin, John Stamos, and Bob Saget.

I felt that this show would be perfect for this exercise because the show was part of a genre that everyone enjoyed and could easily be understood even with the sound on the television or laptop turned off, comedy. It turns out that I did not make a mistake with my choice of television shows. What I learned from the show is that the human face can deliver emotions even better than the voice of a person. By simply watching the facial expression on the characters faces, I was able to tell if the scene being played out was lighthearted or serious.

Everything from the twitch of an eyebrow or the curl of a lower lip delivered a clear message to the viewer even without hearing the dialogue. Even the way they walked across the room or touched each other proved to be an integral part of the story being told. The most prevalent emotion on this show as portrayed by the actors was actually joy and laughter as accentuated by their facial expressions and non verbal body actions. However, I also realized that these observations only applied to the actors who were old enough to convey their emotions through facial expressions or actions.

This did not apply to the very young child actors on the set such as the Olsen twins who were old enough to memorize their dialogue as it was read to them, but not old enough to convey emotions through their faces or movement. That is why when I was watching the character of Michelle Tanner (as played by the twins), I could not get a clear reading as to what exactly was going on with the child.