NAME IT FIRST

Assessment Guide

The KYC Observation Guide

How to Observe and Describe Your Child's Behavior in the Language the Workbook Is Asking For

The workbook asks what you see. This guide helps you see it first.

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For the parent about to work through a Know Your Child workbook who wants to arrive with accurate, specific observations rather than general impressions of their child's behavior.

You'll produce:your Your Child Observation Field Guide

The Name It First Experience

Your child is telling you something in every room they walk into. The behavior is the message. Your Child Observation Field Guide teaches you how to read it — how to observe with specificity, how to record what you see without interpreting it, and how to arrive at the workbook with data rather than guesses. The output is a completed observation record. Stress-tested and signed.

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Sample questions

  1. What have you been noticing in your child's behavior that you want to be able to name more precisely?
  2. What patterns have you seen that you have not yet found the language for?
  3. What would being able to describe what you observe more accurately change about how you support them?

Research basis

Ainsworth on structured observation methodology in child development / Patterson on behavioral observation and coding in family systems / Piaget on developmental stages and observable markers.

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