As a child grows within their cultural upbringing, they develop as their own unique individual because of many personal experiences. These experiences include many different factors that help a child develop as early as their infant and toddler years. During the infant and toddler stage, it is important to realize that these years are crucial because of the brain developing. Along with brain development comes the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development that sums up a child’s development. Many professionals study child development because in this field they work to help describe and understand the changes that rapidly take place as children grow through childhood (Cook, 2013). My interest in child development began as I became
