Childhood

Development Per Santrock (2015), poverty is linked to less effective executive functioning during 2-3 grades (p. 256). Some researchers have purposed there are vital elements of executive functioning that need to be developed during middle and late childhood, such as self-control, working memory and flexibility. Studies have also found that executive function and parenting skills are linked to disadvantaged children’s academic success (Santrock, 2015). This seems to imply that regardless of…

children as a social group and how their childhoods have changed through history and across cultures the world over. They have sort answers to how we view children, how children are treated, how children develop and the immediate social, environmental and cultural factors that influence a child’s development. Towards the end of the 20th Century researchers started to feel that a more comprehensive, international understanding and view of children and childhood was necessary. Further impetus…

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 middle childhood phases. Several senses are stimulated in this type of…

Does race and social class shape child’s life more? That is what Annette Lareau sets out to answer in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Race is defined as a category of individuals who share common inborn biological traits, such as skin color, the color and texture of hair, and the shape of eyes or nose (Newman 2009). Social class is a division of society based on social and economic status (businessdictionary.com). Lareau states on pg. 3 of her book that, “parents’…

Childhood is a complex process no matter where it's experienced. Trauma is apart of childhood in the way it informs growing into adulthood. When children are introduced to trauma they are also introduced to the fear trauma inflicts and that fear whether implicitly or explicitly follows them into adulthood. When children grow into adulthood they are reminded of the fear of trauma in their childhood and the way childhood was taken from them through devastating events. Therefore it can be said that…

Being in Early Childhood, professionalism is a very important part. I will continue my profession by going to classes about early childhood education, going to trainings, and being proficient on writing assessments on each child. To ensure that I am going to continue my professional growth in Early Childhood, I will be attending classes to get my Early Childhood Education degree. By attending these classes, I will learn more on how to teach children in many different ways. Children need to…

The first individual observed was a 7-month old child. The child is my cousin and was just born a few months ago, and with the approval of his parents I was able to observe and take notes on his behavior. His overall behavior was not out of the ordinary and observing him for almost an hour allowed me to get a physical demonstration of all the various developmental characteristics we learned in class. Some of these characteristics include the palmar reflex which was immediately demonstrated as…

Early childhood trauma, that is, the traumatic events occurring before a child reaches six years, can cause severe depression, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. Early childhood trauma affects the chemistry and the physiology of the brain. However, health professionals have not effectively understood the major elements of childhood trauma (Danese & Baldwin, 2017). Trauma at the stage could be caused by loss and grief, accidents, assault, and complex illnesses. As a result, the…

Childhood environment plays a huge roll in what characteristic you’ll develop. Most children remember their childhood as a time of immense love and joy, but for the kids that come from low-income households it is a different story. “Buka, Stichick, Birdthistle, & Felton, found youths from low-income neighborhoods witnessed significantly more severe violence [viz., murders and stabbings] than youths from middle- and upper-income neighborhoods” (“Discrepancies in the Incidence of Violence”). These…

The way a child views the world originates from his or her childhood. Actions or events that happened in their childhood could end up hurting them in the long fun of life. In many works of literature characters view the world because of their childhood. Some people have different case and background but if you were to put it in a branch most people do future actions because of actions that happened in the beginning of their life time. In the novel The Kite Runnner by Khaled Hosseini the…