Communication With and Without Sounds

For this assignment I decided to watch a show on TBS called "For better or Worse". I have never watched this show before, and I thought it would be a very interesting program to watch for non-verbal communication between black women in a beauty salon. My daughter watches it and she’s always laughing all through the show.

The show starts with two black women talking, and I assume they were talking about men. It looks as though one lady is the owner and the other is her friend. They seems as though they are plotting something. And based on my observations of these two women (their facial expression and their body language) the one that seems to be the owner do not seems to be all that interested any longer. Than they smile, (shaking as though they are dancing as to being happy) they have come to an agreement. Then the two women walk out the office, and go over to one of the hair dresser in the shop. They, I assume that they want to give her a makeover. But the hair dresser seems not to like what they are about to do (by her facial expression) or she is not comfortable with what they are saying. The two women facial expressions (that they accomplished what they set out to do) and they went back into the office. At the next point all three ladies are at a bar seems to be, and a man walks in and joined them, and the first two ladies seems very happy by the expression own their faces, the third lady turn her head put up a hand gesture in the man face as though she was not interested in what the was saying. At this point they man seems to get a little offensive about her hand gesture and left. Than the third lady left and by the other two women facial expression that they could not believe what had just happen. From watching this show without sound from my observation is that the first two women set up a blind date for their co –worker and it went terribly wrong.

When I turn on the sound I was able to understand my observation. The two women were talking about a man, but they were going to set up a co-worker on a blind date. The one thing that was and “awe” moment for me is that after watching the show with the sound on. The conversation between the woman and man after she left the first bar, she went to the next bar and found the man and apologized for her action. They talk for while than he offered to see her home. They talk for a minute at her apartment and said their goodnights and he left.

When looking at things without sounds you will miss a lot of information and dialogue from just watching gesture and facial expressions. I thought they wanted to give the co-worker a makeover, instead they wanted to find her a man by setting up a blind date.

The important of listening is very important to the work in the early childhood field.  Because, if you’re not listen to the needs of children and families, than you are not hearing their concerns.