Field observation of a Preschool Boy

When Josh's father dropped him off, he was riding on his father's shoulders. I watched Josh try to take a leaf from a tree before coming up to the preschool door. His father stopped so he could get the leaf. Josh entered the door and immediately went over to a table which contained some modeling clay. While he was handling the clay, his father signed him into the preschool for the day. Josh said goodbye to his father. While Josh was rolling, pounding, and tearing the modeling clay, other preschoolers kept arriving. Later, he said hello to Todd, David, and Troy. He showed the others what he was doing with the clay. He got up from the table several times to get various toys in different parts of the room. He brought these to

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le, it would be very easy to assume that Josh left his socks and shoes in the middle of the floor to get attention. A list of intuitive explanations for Josh's behavior could include the following: (1) he did, in fact, want to be the center of attention--his socks and shoes were a way of saying, "Hey, look at me--I can be the center of attention--even before school starts!"; (2) he was embarrassed to be seen with untied shoes; (3) he was afraid that he would trip over his laces; (4) he had hot feet, and wanted to be air-conditioned; (5) he wanted a teacher for whom he had a particular liking to tie his shoes, so that he could be near her; (6) he was angry at teachers and parents for making him wear shoes, when clearly he was more comfortable without them; (7) he wanted to play in the sandbox, in spite of the preschool routine, which designated sandbox time to be only at recess; (8) he had blisters on both feet, so his parents let him only partially tie his shoes that morning; (9) he was an expert at tying shoes, and was asking to be asked to tie them in front of the entire class; (10) he wanted to gross out the girls with his foot odor because he had previously found this to be a fool-proof way of making his peers laugh and chee
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