The Adventure Begins...

Welcome to our class blog! We are Child Development majors who are studying Advanced Child Development Theory at California State University, with our amazing professor, Kathie Reid. If you hadn't guessed already, she is writing this first entry! She is also requiring us to read Ellen Galinsky's book "Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs." Of course, it's such a great book and we're all so intrigued by all-things-Child-Development that we would read it even without the assignment...but we'll just read it quicker this way!

This semester, a few of us will write entries in response to each chapter, and we hope you follow along and comment when you're inspired by our thoughts.

For now, though, we'll introduce ourselves with pictures of small groups that we work with in class, complete with group names that Kathie had us create.

T-Shirt Time
Martha, Monique, Misti, Kristen, Mai Lor












Party of Five
Lucy, Leanna, Alexis, Darlene, Kelsey












High 5's
Leslie, PK, Jenny, Melissa, Abby











The Fantastic 4
Araceli, Jong, Migow, Katherine












Little Fockers
Sara, Jordan, Kit













Quadruple M
Mai Neng, Miriam, Melissa, Morena












The Pink Ladies
Paj, Maria, Jennifer, Jamie














There we are. Oh! And in the first weeks of the semester, Kathie had a competition to name our blog, and the winners were: Misti and Paj!

So, here we go....