CHILDHOOD ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT

Childhood Analysis and Development

Childhood Analysis and Development

Introduction

Childhood development is one of the most important topics and there exist a large number of researches on this particular topic. This paper presents an analysis of childhood and adolescent development, with a critical discussion on cognitive, psychological, and biological aspects of development. In this paper the characteristics of a normal child, who experiences a normal growth are considered.

The dynamic and continuous process of child growth and development has been inextricably linked to changes in body composition that guide general physical characteristics of each period of childhood. Furthermore, estimates of body composition are important in the initial evaluation and monitoring of patients with acute and chronic malnutrition from any cause.

Childhood Development

Children grow in stages and each takes time and has its process. These stages are sometimes faster and others slower, but all are equally important. Note that each child sets the pace of evolutionary development and, therefore, the learning process of every child will be different. The first five years of childhood are really important. At this age, children are admitted in schools. They feel themselves responsible to some extent and start understanding the importance of completing homework, assigned to them. They enjoy playing with their friends also. These are the years when the child is more dependent on his or her parents. This is the stage of discovery, which helps in transforming his or her personality and abilities. The children aged between 1-3 years, tend to express their feelings and emotions through peculiar actions.

The stage of adolescence itself is characterized by a depth of emotional life. Imagination and creativity are the hallmark of this period and often the appearance of poetic skills as a way of sublimating the intense emotions that are experienced. These artistic skills tend to disappear at the end of adolescence. Finally, the achievement of identity means the successful interpretation of the image and its relevance to the society.

Psychological Development

The individuality of the infant, in part, depends on its unique constitution, individual, from birth to interact with others of their species. Their power and their willingness to establish links with other human beings, as part of their innate and unique organization, are also the result of mixing the most developed evolutionary forms.

The newborn possesses a self-organizing system and its goal is to minimize the differences between the developing organism and the environment is always changing. This bi-directional concept of the action is important not only to understand the process of adaptation, but also to differentiate the action of the movement. A common thought to researchers in the field of child development is that the human being begins life without distinguishing the environment, experiencing everything as a continuous amorphous mass. By observation it can be assumed that the action requires the child to interact simultaneously with himself and his environment, differentiating between the environment and himself.

Child development theorists do not establish equivalence between maturation and development; many of them claim that constitutional and structural forces are essential precisely ...