CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Child Development

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion2

Child Development2

Emotional and Social Development2

Cognitive Development2

Speech and Language Development3

Fine Motor Skill Development3

Gross Motor Skill Development3

Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis3

Piaget four stages of the cognitive development7

Conclusion9

References11

Child Development

Introduction

Child development means the psychological and biological changes faced by children in their early life stages. These changes occur from birth primarily from age 3 to 7 years. At times, these developments are linked to factors or actions that are genetically related and occur during the parent's life. Hence such factors are part of a child development theory. These developmental changes are mostly strongly influenced by genetic factors and events during prenatal life. Child development occurs if he/ she are provided a healthy environment, where a child's social, cognition and learning skills can be enhanced. The children have the same physical, mental, emotional and social needs as an adult. Hence it is essential to focus on their needs, provide them with a good environment. For example have certain outdoor policies and mealtimes for children in order to help them in their development.

This is so as the outdoor learning area is a valuable learning environment. Every effort should be made to enable the children to have supervised access to the outdoor learning area every day. Mealtimes are essential as they give an opportunity to the child to learn and interact, which is very essential for their development. It is important that children should not be exposed to an anti biased environment.

Media is currently promoting and endorsing that child of future generation will be obese and indolent. In order to change the mindset certain steps are being taken. This includes placement on website and having advertisements that encourage adults to incorporate better lifestyle. This is important as it will have an impact towards the development process of a child as parents act as a role model. One can state this that child development process always starts from home and the environment with which the child is exposed to.

Discussion

Early childhood is a time span of development that spans the ages from 3 to 5 years, between the end of the toddler years and the start of first grade. It is the time of child's life when the base is prepared for personal, linguistic, cognitive, and social-emotional natural forces that will elaborate all through life. Yet there is an unmistakable value to early childhood that makes it one of the most intriguing and winning time of human development.

Child Development

Every child is unique in his own way, while the development of the child is through different phases. There are 5 areas of development of a child:

Emotional and Social Development

It involves how to react in different situations of joy so showing happiness. Children make friends at different stages of life. They interact with others and follow them. A baby playing with a toy and smiles towards it shows that he recognizes it.

Cognitive Development

Cognition is our mind development how we learn in different situations and resolve our problems and issues related to ...