Explain How Genetics Affect Child Development

Throughout this theme I have learnt many things that will help me to work with children in the future, for example, I have learnt about the importance of genetics in a child’s physical development and how much it can actually affect a child in reaching their milestones, although this is important I have also learnt how important nurture is to a child’s physical development, the theorists I have researched helped me to gain more knowledge and understanding on both nature and nurture and how it affects a child’s physical development, this raised further questions for me on what type of genetic conditions affect a child’s physical development and growth and how badly it may affect the child and how it affects their everyday life, because I understand how genetics affect a child’s physical development this will help me to improve my practice as I can empathise with the child and as I gain more experience within childcare settings it will continue to help improve my …show more content…
The information I have researched on children’s nutrition also enables me to advise parents about the foods their children eat, advise such as, having meals as a family which will encourage the children to eat as they see everyone else eating, serve different healthy foods as the same foods will bore the child and they will not eat it, to eat healthy to encourage the child to eat healthy and to involve the children in preparing and making the foods as this will make meals times more fun for them. (http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/habits.html), information like this can be put into a leaflet for the parents to encourage healthy meals at