I took my daughter to the park to complete an observation for this assignment. We were the first ones at the park, it was me and my daughter two of my friends and their children which totaled four children all together. All of our children were playing and enjoying each other until other children arrived and kind of took over the playground, including skipping the children waiting in line for their turn to go down the slide.
There was not much communication to be observed this day because there were no parents present when the children arrived. Most of everyone lived not even a block away from the park, so the parents did not even accompany them to park. Since there was not any parents present, there was not communication that was being done. Our children played nice and waited their turn and did not bother the children that were being unfair. But, i could definitely see how this can make the children feel as if they are not important because the children were of a different race.
the children that appeared at the park after us were caucasian. Our children felt like they were not important and like the other children were better than they were because of the way they were treated
The parent appeared after about 5-10 minutes and they witnessed the behavior, but did not say anything to their children about not sharing the slide and other fixtures, they did not even acknowledge that there were other children there that their children were trampling over, which showed me that they were not teaching them to have respect for people that were different from them. Eventually, we decided to leave because those children were making us very upset, but the irritation was aimed at the parents, plus it was dinner time.
