Infancy

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.”(Leo J. Burke) As a mother to a boy who never slept well during infancy, I can easily relate to this saying. Thankfully to the mandated paid maternity leave in Belarus, where I became a mother, I had the day time to catch up on sleep without worrying about making money, losing my job or ruining my career. Now, living in the US, as I am pondering on having a second child, I realize that a mandated, worry-free maternity leave is no…

Although studies have recommended that the behavioral and cognitive shortage linked with the womb vulnerability to tobacco could prolong into late infancy and teenage years, with children of smokers exhibiting advanced rates of inability to concentrate leading to a greater risk for concentration deficiency or hyperactivity and behavior disorders, incapacitated knowledge and memory capacity, with diminish…

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2014 there were 46.7 million people in poverty with over 21% being under the age of 18 years old (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). This percentage of poverty is well above other developed countries (Santrock, 2015). For those who live in poverty, acquiring and maintaining basic life necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation is a struggle. For someone who has not experienced poverty, the conveniences that life offers, such as a quality…

The first stage I will cover is Trust versus Mistrust this is throughout infancy, so when you are first born and until eighteen months. It is essential that a child successfully passes this stage because it reflects onto the future stages. I was born on November 3, 1996 in Hagerstown, Maryland at the Washington county hospital, where all of my siblings were born. I was the smallest of all of my siblings and weighed eight pounds and four ounces. My parents helped me move through this stage by…

At a young age, children are curious about their surroundings. They have the need to explore independently, move around and operate materials which favourably contributes to their development both cognitively and visually. According to Berk, human vision is the least developed sense at birth and the one we rely on the most (2013, pg 158). Infants initially explore the visual field with a lack of sight. Over time they develop pattern, depth and object perception. At their early childhood level…

References MoralDevelopment.mov [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riugWInqiaE Pollock, J. M. (2018). Ethics in Criminal Justice [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.betheluniversityonline.net/cps/default.aspx?SectionID=6730&tabid=155#2 Thompson, R. A. (2012). Whither the preconventional child? Toward a life-span moral development theory. Child Development Perspectives, 6(4), 423-429. doi:10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00245.x Lawrence Kohlberg developed his moral stage theory in…

coalesced together bring us the outcome of which we are learning today. I can only speculate when I think about possible outcomes because merely 240 years ago our nation was in such infancy it could have gone in many directions. I do take pride in some of the choices our forefathers made. Those choices they made in Americas infancy lead to the culture that we live in…

When considering whether maternal deprivation in infancy has long-term effects on social and emotional development, we have to first understand attachment is. Attachment can be defined as a “long-enduring, emotionally meaningful tie to a particular individual” (Gross and Rolls, pp!!!!!!, 2008). Bowlby – a key figure in the study of attachment – strongly believed that attachment behaviours provide the evolutionary advantage of protection. He hypothesised that we developed a gene to code for…

Stem Cell biology is a growing discipline throughout the last 20 years. Even though the science and technology of stem cell development is still in its infancy, it is a substantial and powerful medical advancement. Stem cells can be defined as cells that are able to re-new and differentiate into other cells more specialised cells that take on specific roles inside the body (Melton, D, 2014). Stem cells are undifferentiated at first and are a preferred contestant for tissue and organ regeneration…

“Father’s frequent and positive involvement with his child, from infancy on, is directly related to the child’s well-being, and physical, cognitive, and social development” (Matorell, Papalia, & Feldman, 2014, p.139). During the pregnancy, the father’s level of the hormone testosterone decreases to the father prepare for…