CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH

Child and Family Health

[Name of the institute]Child and Family Health

Introduction

First and foremost, it is important to understand that children have to grow and develop in many different areas in order to become healthy, happy, productive members of adult society. There are four main areas or channels in which children grow physical, psychosocial, social and cognitive. Life is beautiful! In order to enjoy each and every pleasure of life it is imperative for an individual to be in the perfect state of health, fitness and psychology so that the person can enjoy the every aspect of life. Parents play a vital role in the physical and mental development of the child. The aim and objective of this paper is to talk about the child development with the help of discussion of live and personal experience of observing two children. The paper also discusses role of family in the development and care of the children.

Selection of the Children

The children that are selected for this assignment are two kids who are five years old. One of the kids is going through normal development and the other child is also a five years old kid but this child is not going through normal growth and development.

Criteria for child and adolescent development

Child development can be described as growth, physically and emotionally, and cognitive development biologically. Child development plays an essential role in developing the personality of the child as the child grows up. To live a satisfying and momentous life, two areas are very important for the individuals. Piaget theorized that as children interact with their physical and social environments, they organize information into groups of interrelated ideas called 'schemes'. When children encounter something new, they must either assimilate it into an existing scheme or create an entirely new scheme to deal with it. It must be noted that Piaget showed physical and social environment as an important criteria for the development of the children (Curren 2006, 100).

Another criterion was shown by Freud. Freud thought that all babies are initially dominated by unconscious, instinctual and selfish urges for immediate gratification which he labeled as Id. As babies attempt and fail to get all their whims met, they develop a more realistic appreciation of what is realistic and possible, which Freud called the "Ego". Over time, babies also learn about and come to internalize and represent their parents' values and rules. These internalized rules, which he called the "Super-Ego", are the basis for the developing child's conscience that struggles with the concepts of right and wrong and works with the Ego to control the immediate gratification urges of the Id (Smith 2003, 36).

Compare and Contrast of Developments among Two Children

The following part of the paper describes how development and growth takes place in children who is normal and in children who is not growing and developing within the normal limits.

Normal child and adolescent development and its relationship to physical development

Interaction with the environment and interpretation of the meanings and findings is imperative ...