Infants and toddlers grow quickly; I can say so myself because my ever-so twenty-five short years of life feel like they have come and then seconds later, they were gone. I was born full-term on August 31st, 1990. I weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces and was 19 inches long. Before I was welcomed in to this world there were prenatal development stages: germinal, embryonic, and fetal. Only up to about a week before birth, the fetus (me) stopped growing! Although, physical growth is especially rapid during the first 2 years of a child's life. Fetal and neonatal brain developments are also very rapid. Infants can not endure life on their own, newborns have specific built-in abilities for survival and adaptive purposes. When I was an infant, I would turn
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Brain and nervous system development during early childhood continues to be dramatic. The nervous system undergoes changes in early childhood, too. Motor skills develop and are majorly refined during early childhood. Piaget referred to the cognitive development occurring between the ages of 2 and 7 as the preoperational stage. In this stage, children increase their use of language and other symbols, their imitation of adult behaviors, and their play. Although young children do not remember as well as older children and adults, I remember being held-back in kindergarten for not being able to …show more content…
During the years of 11 to 20 adolescents' physical, emotional, and intellectual growth occurs at a rapid speed. Puberty occurs and is part of physical development. Puberty marks the end of childhood and the beginning of a sexually mature human being. Cognitive maturity occurs as the brain matures and the social networking expands. This then offers more opportunities for experimenting with life! Yay! During my adolescence I graduated from a private Catholic school and enrolled in college at CCAC. I had my own apartment at the time of graduation and was working part-time at a Claire's. When the transition from childhood and adulthood occurred for me, some of it seemed to be a psychosocial storm and a here and there occurrence of stress. Although, I looked at adolescence as a positive time of opportunities and growth and I successfully survived the
Brain and nervous system development during early childhood continues to be dramatic. The nervous system undergoes changes in early childhood, too. Motor skills develop and are majorly refined during early childhood. Piaget referred to the cognitive development occurring between the ages of 2 and 7 as the preoperational stage. In this stage, children increase their use of language and other symbols, their imitation of adult behaviors, and their play. Although young children do not remember as well as older children and adults, I remember being held-back in kindergarten for not being able to …show more content…
During the years of 11 to 20 adolescents' physical, emotional, and intellectual growth occurs at a rapid speed. Puberty occurs and is part of physical development. Puberty marks the end of childhood and the beginning of a sexually mature human being. Cognitive maturity occurs as the brain matures and the social networking expands. This then offers more opportunities for experimenting with life! Yay! During my adolescence I graduated from a private Catholic school and enrolled in college at CCAC. I had my own apartment at the time of graduation and was working part-time at a Claire's. When the transition from childhood and adulthood occurred for me, some of it seemed to be a psychosocial storm and a here and there occurrence of stress. Although, I looked at adolescence as a positive time of opportunities and growth and I successfully survived the