All four children look at each other and Onya, but no one says anything about the poking, tapping or the bite. Isabel remains on the cushions looking at the photo album and the other children sit with Onya and listen to her read a story from the cushion area just on the edge of the book corner It At the time of observation Gemma and I did not see Isabel bite Donal was not until I had reviewed the video footage and I saw what had happened. felt sick about the bite and my observation I had not seen what had happened for Donald. I went to speak with Donald about what had happened to him but he didn't want to talk about it, telling me that it was lunchtime and that he had washed his hands and was going to the table for lunch. Gem Onya and look at that video and reflect on how using traditional observational approaches becomes problematic. Currently the observer is constructed as detached, rational and objective person and the child is understood as a fixed and individual who is knowable through a predetermined set of expectations unitary and norms(Cannella 1997; Dahlberg et al. 1999). These traditional construc tions of observation and the observer assume there is one true and objective way of seeing and assessing the child. The observer is limited by the views he or may use to authorize her understanding of the child, which means other possible views are silenced