Child Development Essay

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Expressive Activities Life time line. Begin with a large piece of art block and some stickers, colors, markers, etc. Have the Teenager place a sticker some where on the page and that is his birth. He writes down everything he remembers about his birth. The place, who was there, was it daytime or night time, etc. Then you ask him to place another sticker and tell him he is three and write what he remembers happened between birth and three – any new siblings, a move, began…

exposed to while they are growing up and trying to discover who they are. An identity is made up of a person’s orientation, beliefs, customs, and culture; what people are exposed to as children shape what they believe and how they see themselves. If a child is raised in a home with one culture and live in a place that has a different culture, they can become confused about their identity. This can be seen in Geeta Kothari’s “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I,” when she explains how growing…

Mark making is significance to children’s learning through imagination, symbolic play, meaning making, drawing, early writing and maps. Children that are engaged in symbolic play make meanings and show potential of the children’s understanding of symbolic language such as writing and written notation of mathematics (Vygotsky, 1978; Van Oers 2005 & Worthington, 2010). Van Oers (2005) stated that the word imagination means ‘image formation’ which means by making and using signs, where people make…

Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation procedure (SSP) is a critically renowned and mass utilized measure of attachment among infants. Four decades on, and it remains a key influence in determining the relationship between a child and their care-giver. However, despite being labelled a measurement of ‘gold standard’ (Merriam-Webster dictionary, as cited by Clarke-Stewart), we must consider the changes in society from the time of Ainsworth’s work. In this essay, I will be evaluating the SSP’s…

Just look at a baby. Soft, chubby and perfect. Smiling and cooing with a toothless grin. They smell good and they are adorable. We love to go shopping for baby gear. Cute tops and bottoms, little shoes and adorable accessories like headbands just make us starry eye for babies. But what about earrings on babies? Is this cute or is this abuse? According to an article in SteadyHealth.com (2015) there can be a lot of risks involved in piercing a baby’s ears. A big issue is an infection. Babies are…

build-up of excess mucus. This mucus can build up in the middle ear and then struggle to drain down the Eustachian tube, causing glue ear {3}. Symptoms The most common symptom is hearing loss. The severity differs from child to child and depends on a variety of factors e.g. when the child has a cold {6}. The condition can affect either one ear or both ears at…

types of gene-environment correlation types exist, passive and evocative correlation. At older ages, active correlation is dominant as the child has more freedom. I will now apply this concept to the scenario given. At the age of 4, Bianca is undergoing the first type of gene-environment correlation which is passive. The passive type is defined as, “the child has no control of it.” Being that she is very young, her parents control what type of environment she will be in. Her parents wanted to…

What are the components of a well-child check for this 3-month old infant? During the baby's early months, parents are curious and ask a lot of questions about their babies. When this three month old female is brought to the clinic, weight, length and head circumference should be checked and plot in the child's growth chart. A complete head to toe assessment is done. This child's developmental assessment should be completed, such include, head control, cooing , smiling and parents recognition…

purpose of the Stages of Embryonic Development of Zebrafish experiment was to provide in-depth documentation on the different stages that a zebrafish undergoes throughout its growth as an embryo. The main idea of the article is to propose the embryonic development of zebrafish in an efficient and intuitive manner known as stages. In this case Kimmel et al didn’t look to resolve any questions, but sought to improve the current portrayal of the zebrafish embryonic development. In the article,…

and learning little when actually, studies suggest the complete opposite. 75 percent of the brain develops from when a baby is born to the early 20s. Childhood play stimulates the brain to make connections between nerve cells. This is what helps a child develop gross motor skills such as walking, running, and jumping. Fine motor skills such as writing, manipulating small items, and detailed hand work are developed through nerve connections as well. Play during the teen years and into adulthood…