Essays on Childhood Development

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...

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...

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...

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...

Early Years Practitioners are able to meet the children’s educational needs and care needs as they must allow the children in the Early Years Setting to discover and explore independently with the areas and objects around them, to allow them to find out what they...

The article, Kindergarten Teachers Speak Out: “Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast!” presented Kindergarten teachers’ responses about the current state of Michigan kindergartens in 2009. The author, Patricia Gallant, did a survey on the said topic and discussed the current kindergarten teaching experience and highlighted...

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...

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...

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...

It has also been found that Piaget’s ideas towards developmental psychology have been helped to understand children and how they view the world as well as more beneficial ways to help children learn. There are many theorists who believe that sometimes an individual’s environment can...

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...

A TAC or TAF Meeting can be called by any agency that has concerns about a child or young person with additional needs that they feel may require a response from more than one agency. The convening agency is responsible for coordinating the meeting arrangements...

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...

For this paper, I observed a 12 month old child for an hour each week over a 6 weeks period using the Tavistock method of child observation. Initial observation took place on Thursday 2nd November 2017 between 11am to 12pm. For confidentiality reasons, l have...

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...

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...

Description of Childcare Center 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...

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...

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...