The Importance Of Early Childhood

Register to read the introduction… According to Berger, Piaget believes younger children seem to be limited to their own self-perspective, also known as egocentrism (Berger, 218). Some obstacles of logical operations they face include; centration, focus on appearance, static reasoning, and irreversibility. One area of preoperational thought I can relate with is focus on appearance. This would include that a boy or girl may fear they have changed to the other sex, if they were certain clothes or received a hair cut that resembled that of the opposite sex. When I was about five or six, my mother took me to get my ears pierced. We came to find out that only one of the piercing guns was working, and my mother asked, “Amanda, are you sure you want this done now?” Of course I insisted I needed it done now. After the first gun clicked and sent what I thought to be deathly pain throughout my body, I would not let them touch me to pierce the other ear. My angry mother made me walk around the mall the entire day with one ear pierced. I covered the un-pierced ear with my hand because I was afraid that people would think that I was a …show more content…
For example given two equal size glasses of milk, a child may be asked to pick the fullest one. When one is then poured into a taller, skinner glass they tend to choose the taller glass because it appears bigger. In a “Dennis the Menace” cartoon I recently read Dennis was with his mother as she was cutting a pizza. Dennis was saying, “Cut it into lots of pieces mom, I’m really hungry.” This is example of how younger children do not understand conservation. Dennis did not understand that even though she could cut it into more pieces, the same amount of pizza would still be there. It is also thought that children may attempt to construct a theory to explain everything they see and hear according to Berger, known as theory-theory. Reasoning for this would be that humans always are pushing for answers of causes or …show more content…
Children who have not reached a certain level of cognitive development may either have to wait a few years to try to re-enroll or may have to take special classes which provide attention to their individual needs. There are also children who have certain disabilities that prevent them from enrolling in traditional schooling programs. School-aged children, about five to seven years old, possess what Piaget refers to as concrete operational thought (Berger, p.289). According to Berger, these logical principles that children use in situations that have visible or tangible objects can be later applied in more systematic and scientific situations. Children also gain the ability to classify objects by a certain characteristic and understand if certain aspects of an object change; it still maintains the same identity. They also gain an understanding of reversibility. This would include that an object can be returned to its original state by reversing the process by which it was