Instructions:

Respond to the following prompts Share your opinion on the way the situation was handled, how would you have handled the situation? Are there any resources you would use? One paragraph for each prompt. 

• Angela’s baby, Maria, had colic from the day she was born. This meant that from 4:00 in the afternoon until 8:00 in the evening, every day, Maria cried inconsolably. No matter what Angela did, she could not get Maria to stop crying. One evening, after 5-month-old Maria had been crying for 3 hours straight, Angela became so frustrated that she began shaking Maria. The shaking caused Maria to cry more loudly, which in turn provoked Angela into shaking the infant more vigorously. Angela shook Maria until the baby lost consciousness.

• Jimmy, a 3-year-old, was playing with his puppy in his backyard when he tried to make the puppy stay near him by pulling roughly on the dog’s tail. Jimmy’s father saw the child vigorously pulling on the puppy’s tail and yelled at him to stop. When Jimmy did not respond quickly, his father grabbed Jimmy’s arm and pulled him away from the dog. The father then began pulling on Jimmy’s ear, actually tearing the skin, to “teach him a lesson” about the appropriate way to treat a dog.