Early Childhood: The Most Critical In Development

*Social and emotional development: Children now begin to make friends, understand rules, they enjoy helping others and being given responsibility, they like routine and need structure.

Health promotion is very important to early childhood education to improve the well-being of children and parents’ health and behaviours. “It is important for early childhood educators to recognized their essential role as health promotors” (Pimento & Kernested 2015, P. 4). There are 12 social determinants in daily life for childhood programs, however I have identified that social support networks are most important determinants of health. Likewise, educators and families are both mutually directly and indirectly supporting children to improve their healthy development and education (Pimento & Kernested, 2015, P.34). In early childhood, educators have very important role in daycare which is communication. That means, that we need to communicate with family (parent, grandparent), children and coworkers to share the daily basic tasks and any other ideas or information for improving environments and supports. It is especially important that we support mothers who have very limited knowledge about their first-born baby, such as lack of information about breastfeeding, sleeping routine, formula ratios, nutrition, healthy eating habits, or any parental skills. Not only that, we can also help parents to get benefits and support from the government such as financial support, subsidized daycare, and community information resources on healthy nutrition food.

Principle: children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of development and learning are equally important and interconnected.

Furthermore, early childhood care as well, help children learn to socialize, become independent, self assured and responsible, which aid them in become productive

to 5 years and is broadly considered to be the most important time of learning

The early years, especially the first five years of life, are very significant and most rapid periods for a child’s development and learning. They are important for building the child's brain. Everything a child does be it seeing, touching, tasting, smelling or hearing helps to shape the brain for thinking, feeling, moving and learning. From the In Brief series: The science of Early childhood Development, it is stated that Early experiences affect the quality of the brain architecture by establishing either a sturdy or a fragile foundation for all of the learning, health and behavior that follow.1 This is therefore a time of rapid cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional and motor development.

All of the mentioned observations are linked to biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human developmental in early childhood. The observations provided many connections to different concepts and theories produced by developmental psychologists. This analysis provides an understanding as to why the children acted the way they did in the observations.

Early childhood is a crucial stage of life in terms of children's physical, intellectual, emotional and social development and of their well-being. The growth in children is both rapid and differential. A

Even though she was a bad queen, she was the queen of egypt. In the beginning, everyone looked up to her, but towards the end, no one could trust her. They didn’t trust her because she thought it was always gonna be about her. For example, towards the end, she got in a fight with Rome and that led to Rome taking over. Cleopatra was bad, but equally good. She was born in 69 BC and died in 30 BC. Through her lifetime, she fulfilled many roles. Such as, Queen, Wife, Mom, Girlfriend, and more. Some people saw her as being the most powerful ruler in Egypt, but some saw her as being the most evil woman who lived. Since Cleopatra was the last ruler, she lived in the New Kingdom. Cleopatra ruled for more than 200 years after her brother and Father’s death. Cleopatra had a very sudden death. She poisoned herself. She didn’t want to get captured, so she poisoned herself by getting a snakebite.

Chapter 5 “Early Childhood: Body and Mind” section “Thinking during Early Childhood” teaches about the cognitive development of children during early childhood at around ages 2-6 years old, in which, children targeted at this age do not use logical operations (reasoning process). Such a term is called the “Preoperational Intelligence” conducted by Piaget. Furthermore, Piaget’s preoperational thought establishes that children have language but use symbolic thought where “words can refer to things not seen and that an item, like a flag, can symbolize something else (in this case, a country).” Symbolic thought proves Animism; the belief that young children have thinking that “natural objects are alive and nonhuman animals have the same characteristics of a child” (Berger, 173).

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“Early roots of play as a best practice for early learning was documented by Plato, a Greek philosopher, who insisted that play is considered a natural activity of childhood.”(Ingrid Crowther, 2011, Pg. 2) Early Childhood Education is a term that refers to educational programs that are devoted to children from birth to the age of eight. “Children of this age learn by exploring and investigating; therefore, their environment should support and encourage this process.”(Rebecca Isbell and Betty Exelby, 2001, Pg. 11) Early childhood environments should be attractive and exciting. These environments should allow children to work and play using proper resources, materials, and tools.

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary (1828), “observation is an act of recognizing and noting a fact or occurrence.” Observation in Early Childhood is important so teachers are able to meet developmental needs of young children through evaluation and assessment. The purpose of this case study is to observe the characteristics and behaviors of a child’s stages of development in an early childhood class; the child’s dominant stages of play would also be highlighted based on Parten’s stages of play. Activities and strategies would also be recommended to improve areas in which the child can be assisted. These areas would be the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.

Child development is complex because it is influenced by a wide range of factors such as culture. A child’s culture begins to influence them long before they are born. Parents from around the world hold different beliefs and raise their children in unique ways. Cultural norms can greatly affect which values parents consider important and how they share those values with children (Christensen, 2013). The timing of the development of certain skills and characteristics in children, depends on the importance the culture places on them (Buechner, 2015). For example, a good deal of value is placed on academics in many Eastern cultures, and so children spend many hours each day on math and science activities from the time they are very young. But, in the United States children are given a great deal more freedom to express themselves and experiment with things, because we as a society place value on creativity and innovation (O’Sullivan, 2016). In the U.S., the nuclear family is considered the ideal structure for raising children, but in countries like Japan and India, extended family and community members take a much larger role in child care and parenting (Christensen, 2013). Because each child is unique, caregivers need to form partnerships with families in order to meet the developmental and educational needs of their students. According to Copple and Bredekamp (2009) by understanding a child’s culture, early childhood professionals can “make classroom decisions that are

Imagine an entire world that is all either desert or farming field. Picture immense cities interspersed throughout the farmland. Now, see billions upon billions of malnourished humans walking from place to place due to a fuel shortage, and children working in the sweatshops of ‘developing countries’, except they’re everywhere because eventually all the countries became third world due to one major issue: overpopulation. This is an issue that will only grow if left unchecked, creating a version of the horrible world I just laid before you. The best way to prevent such a torturous future is to acknowledge the problems going on due to overpopulation, to find the root of those problems, and to take immediate action to solve the issues as soon and as humanely as possible.