Essays on Childhood Development

Complete and meaningful assessment in early childhood necessitates an understanding of family context, including getting to know family language and culture, gathering developmental information from parents, and conducting home visits with parent approval. This principle applies to all youngsters and families, but is especially critical...

Each area of development is interdependency as they do not work in isolation but instead they are interlinked. If a child experiences a delay within there development it’s likely to affect more than one area of development. Therefore within an early years setting its vital...

Many young students are using their own strategies in learning with some various kind of literacy that may lead to their success in education. Sometimes, they use with their strategies very useful; Children can either learn it from the web online (internet) and reading books....

Every so often, I will come across kids being glued to either their tablets or smartphones. These days, children are introduced to technologies at a very early age. Parents find it easy to hand their child a tablet or a smartphone to keep them busy...

Introduction Adopting a four-year-old child requires close focus on their psychological and behavioral wellbeing that needs to be highly engaged through integration of key social interaction and development aspects that need to be effectively considered. Therefore there is need to ensure that the child is...

The Family is considered the most important agent of socialization because it is the family that provides crucial childhood development. The family is the first line of defense to keep young children becoming feral children, which can have disastrous consequences on a child’s life. The...

The five milestones of early childhood development contain linguistic broadening, playing (social skills), self-identity, gender identity, and locomotion. Language development begins with informal and formal education where the child imitates his parents and teachers (those around him). Learning the alphabet and simple words are precious...

Looking into Elliot Turiel and Albert Bandura’s perspectives on how kids build up a feeling of good and bad are fundamentally the same as however not precisely the equivalent. Bandura’s moral improvement hypothesis, He states that “Individuals are believed to abstract and integrate information that...

In this academic journal, Lian Tong (the corresponding author) who attended the School of Public Health at Fudan University in Shanghai, China effectively discusses the link between corporal punishment and developmental problems with children. It is documented that abusive discipline, family instability, lack of emotional...

There seems no more “nature” image than that of a loving mother and this iconic concept of good mother has permeated nearly very society. In western culture, as in most cultures, the powerful grand culture promotes the instinctual character of motherhood, generalizes the mothering experience...

Later life motherhood in the United States is steadily increasing, and the trend is indisputable. More women are waiting to give birth regardless of the common societal belief that women should give birth before the age of 35. Despite arguments of critics, the trend of...

Evil and vicious actions have been demonstrated throughout novels, poems, literature, media and real life. Some actions are regarded as too evil, like murdering someone. Some actions are considered ‘less’ evil, like stealing something from someone. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Othello...

Through the turbulent times and fractures of a busy modern world, the only refuge remains the pristine image of one’s own childhood. The childish adventures and fantasies occupy the easiest escape from the matured world. In the contemporary world, the phase of childhood comes to...

With around three hundred million Americans and close to six billion people worldwide, parenting skills are important to maintain a healthy society. Parenting involves many aspects and requires many skills. It’s a time to look after, direct, and develop proper skills adolescents will need to...

Parenting goes hand in hand with the development of a child. It is crucial for one to be knowledgeable of the best and most effective parenting style to raise a healthy, happy individual. Parenting styles are “the patterns of practices that parents exhibit in relation...

For my children observation paper, I went to the Center for Young Children. The center’s hours of operation are 7:30 A.M to 5:30 P.M. I attended the center on November 7th, 2019, from 9 A.M. to 11 A.M. The center provides childhood programs for children...

Abstract This child observation paper was formed by observing a preschool child while she was in her natural environment. The observation was done without the child seeing or talking to me. It was required to observe the child in this way to not get attached...

I chose to do a child observation paper for child development that took place in the setting of my family member’s home in apple valley. My nephew was turning 3 years old on Sunday, January 13th 2019 and his parents threw him a small birthday...

I remember the time when a parent asked me to continue tutoring her seven-year-old son even it was already his summer vacation. I was not able to respond immediately to her request but answered her back by just raising a question. I was thinking that...

Children and youth as individuals grow and develop differently based on various factors and implications that make them who they are. In discussing the age old debate of nature versus nurture, it is our goal to provide factual information that provides to the understanding of...

Investigating Goal and Context My current goal for this project is to successfully design and produce a picture book to spread awareness of childhood anxiety and insecurity. By doing this, I aim to educate and comfort those who suffer from these difficulties and let them...

Since the 1990’s and early 2000’s and up until now, the childhood experience has changed drastically. Those growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s, also known as millennials, can remember coming home after a day at school and hurriedly finishing up their nightly homework...

Genie was strapped to a potty chair and neglected by her father. Her father kept her and her mother in a ‘protective custody’ where they were ‘virtual prisoners’ to his gross interpretation of a habitable and nurturing environment. Consequently, Genie grew up, neglected and socially...

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist and philosopher and a founder of the field of cognitive science. He has a nature theory that children are prewired for the development of language, and the environment in which they live triggers its emergence. According to Chomsky children...

Child psychology deals with how children grow not only physically but encompasses their mental, emotional, and social development. Historically, children were often viewed simply as smaller versions of adults however Jean Piaget suggested that children actually think differently than adults. There is several school of thoughts as to...

Cognitive development, socio-emotional adjustment, behavioral adaptation and health status can all be influenced by family and other social factors. Understanding this and basic psychological needs plays a big part to the clinical child psychology world. Child psychology covers a wide variety of different factors that...

The process of parenting can be divided into different parenting styles. They usually were used in psychology these days and are based totally on the work of Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, in the 1960s. Maccoby and Martin also...

The Freudian Psychology, named this due to the vast amount of work put in by Sigmund Freud. He theorised that an individual’s behaviour was made more form psychological factors than biological ones or environmental factors. He argued that individuals are born with these basic needs...

Freud said that from ages of 3 to 6 years old children have a so-called “Phalic phase”. In both sexes, sensitivity now becomes focused on the genitals and masturbation, and it becomes a new source of pleasure. In boys, the Oedipus complex and in girls...

Domestic violence occurs in many families and it may lead children to have problems through their developments. Domestic violence which also triggers domestic stress that may affect the development of child psychology can be referred to as a relationship problem in which partners seek power...