CHILDREN LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Children Learning and Development



Children Learning and Development

Introduction

This paper intends to discuss the learning and development in the EYFS context of a child. Moreover, the effective practices supporting the development and learning will be analyzed in the paper. A critical examination on the contemporary theoretical and empirical work relating to the child development and learning within the early age of five years will be conducted. Moreover, the learning and development of children across personal, social, emotional, physical and creative development domains will be examined. The purpose of this paper is to contribute towards the improvement of educational and care outcomes for all young children taking into consideration individual, family and culture differences.

Discussion

The children's functional health assessment patterns have got certain similarities and certain differences across ages. If we look at the pattern of health assessment and health management, it differs across all the ages. Toddlers grow slowly then infancy stage, whereas preschool goers are most active at this stage and school aged is eager to learn. Nutrition requirements are usually the same in all ages of children while their metabolic rates differ. Breast feeding is important to toddlers, preschool aged are also have same nutritional requirements as toddlers and school going children's nutrition requirements increases because of their physical activity increase. Pattern of elimination remains the same but with different frequencies. School going children usually possess some issues relating to their elimination pattern because of late school hours (Oscar & Barbara, 2011 Pp. 124-185).

Pattern of activity differs across all the ages. But children are usually active other than their infancy period. Cognitive patterns also differ across all the ages. Perceptual patterns of children enhance as they grow in their ages. Pattern of sleep and rest changes with the age; toddlers sleep the most while school going children sleep less. Patterns of self perception changes as the age grow, but mainly self-perception is developed during the first phase of life i.e. infancy and toddlers. Role relationship pattern differs among age groups of children because as they grow they tend to identify their relations, this ability enhances with the age. Sexuality patterns differ with ages because as children grow they tend to explore new things and their requirements also increase. Stress tolerance might increase or might decrease with the age. Values and beliefs tend to get stronger with the growing age. There are few things like nutritional requirement and elimination pattern that remains the same entire childhood while many other things tend to differ during different ages of a child (World, 2003 Pp. 100-105).

Importance of Physical Development

Physical activity is important for children's development. Lifelong health and sanity is promoted if children and infants have effective physical activities. Obesity is increasingly becoming an issue for children's health. Children who are active from their young ages possess stronger muscles and bones, they can avoid obesity, they have a learner body and they initiate a better outlook about life since beginning.

Parents need to promote physical activity and exercise in children ...