Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk by David Elkind – Chapter 5
I have chosen the book “Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk” by David Elkind. I picked chapter 5 to summarize because I can openly relate to what the chapter is talking about and what I have learned in class, particularly the psychosocial stages by Erikson. The chapter points out that when parents leave a kid in a daycare center or with an in-house babysitter throughout the day, they do not put their kid's attachment to and the sense of trust to them in threat. First, it seems that the child's attachment to, as well as trust in the parents is not, or at least mainly reliant on the parents fulfilling the infant's biological needs. Toddlers do not spontaneously become attached to the individual how changes or feeds them. Besides, it does not seem that bonding is subject to the absolute quantity of time the kid is with certain adults. What appears important for the creation of the trust and attachment is the receptivity and the attitude of the parents to the kid's communication.
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Nevertheless, the research simply does not support the belief. The early conditioned training fails once the kid's voluntary involvement is needed. Training is imperative, but is a lot more efficient and effective once it is introduced after the kid is physically prepared. An infant may learn to imitate you during simple activities like spoon-feeding but not complex activities like playing basketball. Very young kids subjected to such instruction are at risk of learning to be excessively dependent on adults for direction and guidance. Their growing sense of autonomy is risked for no reason. The initial three years of life are important for the infant's achievement of a healthy sense of autonomy and
I have chosen the book “Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk” by David Elkind. I picked chapter 5 to summarize because I can openly relate to what the chapter is talking about and what I have learned in class, particularly the psychosocial stages by Erikson. The chapter points out that when parents leave a kid in a daycare center or with an in-house babysitter throughout the day, they do not put their kid's attachment to and the sense of trust to them in threat. First, it seems that the child's attachment to, as well as trust in the parents is not, or at least mainly reliant on the parents fulfilling the infant's biological needs. Toddlers do not spontaneously become attached to the individual how changes or feeds them. Besides, it does not seem that bonding is subject to the absolute quantity of time the kid is with certain adults. What appears important for the creation of the trust and attachment is the receptivity and the attitude of the parents to the kid's communication.
Infant caregivers …show more content…
Nevertheless, the research simply does not support the belief. The early conditioned training fails once the kid's voluntary involvement is needed. Training is imperative, but is a lot more efficient and effective once it is introduced after the kid is physically prepared. An infant may learn to imitate you during simple activities like spoon-feeding but not complex activities like playing basketball. Very young kids subjected to such instruction are at risk of learning to be excessively dependent on adults for direction and guidance. Their growing sense of autonomy is risked for no reason. The initial three years of life are important for the infant's achievement of a healthy sense of autonomy and