Early and Middle Childhood

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of intense life in physical, psychological and social maturation that allow child and become adult. The passage of puberty is absolutely necessary to enable the individual to reproduction. The development of each individual is personal, every child starts puberty at an age specific rate. The range of normal is wide and will monitor the pediatrician. In many cases is mediated by genetics, diet, race, geographical or psychological and social stimuli. The start and development of puberty is between 8 to 17 years. In girls the age of onset of puberty is at 11 years and children, at 12. In this line we can say that the current improvements in quality of life, health and nutrition have progressively advanced the onset of puberty with onset of menarche (first menstruation) increasingly younger ages.

Early and Middle Childhood

Introduction

Development is a process driven by internal contradictions (and in this sense it is spontaneous), which originate in the very process of interaction and interrelationship of the child with his environment. In the development process of conjugation occurs external and internal factors. Development is not something exclusive to children and youth, but occurs throughout the human life from birth to old age . In the study of the origin and development of personality, you can verify key achievements in each of the stages, they have to do with social influence, all the history that precedes the individual, the culture of the society in which he lives and the groups in which is inserted or that somehow relates.

Psychical development occurs as a spontaneous, continuous, self-movement, jumping to higher echelons, which involves the way to new ways of thinking, feeling and acting. It is a process of change that leads to evolutionary born in each period both the new and the old is restructured on a new basis. Development occurs in relation to the other, these links will exploit the capabilities and reach levels of understanding of reality and of them-selves that is impossible to achieve alone. These are only possible in communication with others and within the performance or execution of certain activities.

Discussion

Physical Changes in Children

Since the beginning of mankind, the children have grown into adults. This transition from childhood to adulthood is called adolescence. Adolescence is a period in which biological, psychological, sexual and social changes occur among the children and that begins with puberty. With puberty the first phase of adolescence starts with the process of physical changes in the body in which the child becomes a teenager, capable of sexual reproduction.

Adolescence encompasses much of the period of puberty, and relates more to the stage of psychological and social transition between childhood and adulthood. Duration range generally falls with onset between 10-12 years, and his completion at 19 or 20 years. The bodily changes of adolescence are like the first year of life and processing speed, but with a fundamental difference: teens are aware. During adolescence, changes in hormone levels and brain circuits take ...