Milestones of Development in Child Care Essay

I choose the early child hood field to better myself as a teacher and to get a better understanding of how a child’s mind work. Growing up I always wanted to became a teacher and open up my own daycare center. One of my career goals is to make sure my center is built and able to meet the needs of all children. This includes children who suffer with a disability or disorder. There is not many centers who have the resources or staff willing to help a child who suffer with developmental issues. My…

Development follows the same basic pattern and it tends to happen in the same order, even if some of the elements of development are missed. Sequence of development involves patterns which children go through and these are called milestones. Usually one area of development will finish before another one begins. If a child finds it difficult meeting a milestone it may delay the sequence of development. An example of sequence of development is that the child learns to walk before it can run. Rate…

attention to the motor development of a child. This was the case for me and is also the reason for my interest in understanding the steps needed to get from a tiny wiggling baby to an adult with fully functional motor skills. My lack of assessable children is one of the reasons I chose to observe the infants and preschoolers whom receive care at Tutor Time. Another reason I felt going to a care facility would be best is because it allowed me to compare the development of one child to that of…

childhood and development opportunities. Valuable education and social experiences in high quality child care have a positive influence on children 's development and school readiness. Failure to make investments can lead to greater educational failures and fewer adults prepared to be good parents to the next generation of children. Healthy early childhood development (ECD) in the early child period…

Cognitive Development While reading the textbook, I learned several things about cognitive development that connects to my child of study. I read about pretend play and how beneficial it is to a child’s development. Cognitive development can vary. A child interacting with peers is a great developmental milestone. As I read, I became more understanding to outside aspects of development. For examples, things like “nutritional deficiency, parenting style, health care, and environment”…

through a series of stages of development. From day to day, each child is growing, developing and changing as time passes. When they progress through each stage of development, each child moves through a steady progression of milestones that include various areas of development. These milestones vary by age and involve acquiring new motor abilities, developing thinking skills and learning emotional regulations, as well as social growth. The stages of development include gestation and birth,…

children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors. Personal factors that may affect a child’s development include: Health and Disability A child’s general health can affect their development. Children who have spent an extended amount of time unwell or in hospital in the first years of their life may have delayed physical development. Premature babies are more likely to show variations in their development than full term babies. Their milestones are…

adult. To put that in four words “from womb to tomb.” At each stage of life’s journey Myers, 2014, explains there are three vital milestone and those are cognitive, physical, and social milestones (Myers, 2014, p117). Although life is a journey, for this assignment we will be going through a journey in comparing and contrasting Erikson psychosocial stage model of development with Freud’s psychosexual stages. The differences and similarities between the two models will be explained. According to…

Over the years, many child psychologists and theorists have developed theories as to why and how children develop. Many theories build on pervious theories as psychologists learn more about infants and toddlers. Shonkoff & Phillips have developed 10 core concepts that help guide research and the development of new theories. These principles “...focus on the underlying principles that guide the developmental process.” (Shonkoff & Phillips) The purpose of this paper is to prove that theories that…

I have chosen to do a child study on my daughter Emily, Emily is currently twenty one month’s however she was born prematurely at thirty-six weeks, Emily had a very difficult birth which resulted in her being born without a pulse, preterm and at a low birth weight, Emily also experience seizers within the first week of life, many test and examinations where done too see if Emily has any long term effect from this traumatic birth, she is currently under paediatric care, but so far Emily is…