Areas of Child Development Essay

temperament a child has and to help them out with their needs by the value and respect each child’s temperament individually and how different practices can support the child's development in a child care curriculum. The author provide concept and strategies. The original article, “Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers” stated that an Easy child tend to be mellow, calm, and easy adaptable also have a good sleeping and eating habits. Difficult…

think of their imaginary friends less. Once a child reaches a certain age, imaginary friends stop being cute creations and begin to be looked down on. In “Death by Landscape” Lois reached the age where she should have many real friends. Instead, though, she only connects with Lucy. When Lucy goes missing, many things don’t quite make sense. Her disappearance seems so mysterious because Lucy is just an imaginary friend who Lois stopped liking. As a child there are many reasons to show that Lois…

weighed once a month who are below the age group of 3. Then the children who are between 3 – 6 years are weighed on quarterly basis. Even the cards are made at the nearest AWC where the age of the child is mentioned below 6 years. By doing so the the AWW are able to track the age monitoring chart of the child and help in assessing the nutritional status.. the children who are more malnourished are given special attention are given special feeding and referred to medical services for the…

Mother-Baby Interaction and Child’s needs. We believe that, the bonding and the positive interaction between a mother and her child will lead to the optimum wellbeing of her child. As this is a pair work, we started off by jotting down what we know about the topic. I am blessed to have Sharmini as a partner, as she is motivated as I am, when it comes to the issues of children’s development. It does not take much time for us to decide, which topic to focus on. We divide the presentation into two…

Introduction Play according to Allen & Delahunty (2007) means engaging in various recreational activities for entertainment. Play is an essential role of a child's development and growth, it helps children especially during their preschool educational stage to develop physically socially and emotionally, allowing children to develop social interaction with their peer and caregivers(Townsend, Mayekiso & Ntshangase, 2016 p.73). However, the essence of play comprehends elements of learning,…

Being a young child in second grade, I loved to play with toys, squishy objects and anything for my little hands to fidget with. This was my favorite thing to do was play with these types of toys. I didn't have that many but wanted more of them. During the fall, the Scholastic book fair was at my Mambrino elementary school and everyone was excited about it. Especially me. The book fair only lasts for a week and had many books but more importantly in my 7-year-old brain, had toys to buy and play…

The phylum chordate is one of the first phylum’s everybody learns in school. This is because it includes the human species and a lot of other animals that we know, in which they all have a spine aka vertebrate. All animals in the chordate have similar characteristics, sometime through their life cycle, this can include when they are an embryo. All of this phylum have pharayneal slits which are a series of opening that connect the outside of their neck with the inside of their throat, these are…

Playgrounds can be found all over neighborhoods, towns, and schools and provide an excellent way for children in early and middle childhood to develop and work on physical growth in a safe way. Children go through a sensitive period which is a point in development when organisms are susceptible to stimuli in their environments (Feldman, 2017). Gross and fine motor skills are able to be developed further through play in an environment such as parks and are different for children in the early and…

brain, in particular infants’, function at a higher capacity. Thompson believes that through regular and repeated exposure to music or learning an instrument also known as active learning strongly encourages infants’ perceptual and motor skills development as appose to passive learning which can be achieved by creating a musical environment through things such as lullabies, nursery rhymes and use of radio and/or iPod which…

theory, and although I agree Piagets up to a point, I cannpt accept his overall conclusion on cognitive development occurs in stages and has universality. Piaget claims development is discontinuous and occurs in stages, but I still insist that the development is continuous and each child uniquely experiences all these developmental stages according to their capacity. Therefore development of a child should be unrestricted by age. Piaget’s idea of universality, which assumes all children…