Major Milestones In Infancy And Early Childhood

Personal, Social and Emotional Development - This area is split into three aspects. Firstly, ‘self-confidence and self-awareness’, this means that children are confident with familiar people and are confident to try new activities. Secondly, ‘managing feelings and behaviour’, this means that children are able to show their feelings and know that some behaviour is unacceptable. Finally, the last aspect is ‘making relationships’, this means that children can play with peers and listen to others ideas about activities. Children can then also build relationships with their key person and other members of staff.

The infants physical development starts with the head and then moves to other parts of the body. From the very beginning babies are very curious and are ready to start exploring. Infants necks are unable to support the weight of the head when the baby is sat up straight. They are able to turn their heads left to right when laying down. Infants are able to close their fist.

According to the author Smidt (2013), childhood is a social construct which means that the ideas of childhood life consists of what is determined by the adults. She also stated that children lives are represented through culture and group change. However, the changes can occur over a period of time, place and circumstances of the child. As I read chapter one, I was impressed about the author views concerning early child development. The characteristics of development recognized by Smidt (2013), was how prenatal development of the fetus can change over time before birth. The child’s mother can contribute to the changes, through the economic and culture factors. Therefore, this can also influence the environment during the prenatal stages.

In order to apply theories and models of child development to support children’s development we must get to know each individual child by building a good relationship with the children through play, communication and answering to their personal needs. Observation and assessment is also key so that we know what each child is capable of and what they are working towards/could be encouraged towards. Good communication with parents is also beneficial as it helps the carer to see what the child is doing at home and to identify if there are things they do or don’t do at nursery that is different from home. It also helps to work out ways of encouraging development at home and at nursery.

*Social and emotional development: at this age the child becomes more independent and confident, they like to help adults, they start sharing with other children, and considering other people’s feelings.

Physical Development: Baby can do small movements such as turn their head. They sleep most of the time and this is why they are going to grow fast.

Physical growth occurs from 0 to 18 years. This is from the time the baby is born to the time the baby matures. The child will grow according to the individual child and the different parts of its body; this also depends on the rate that the child will grow at throughout the years. The child may experience a ‘growth spurt’, which is when the body tends to grow at a much faster pace than the child’s usual growth rate. Parts of the body also grow quicker than other parts at different times. For example, usually a baby’s head is larger than the rest of the body when born. As the baby grows, the head becomes smaller in proportion to the rest of the body parts.

Development of a child have been a thing that most of the parents have been neglecting without noticing that it is very important in the development of a child’s character and social

There are many different theories on child development but they are all related in some way. Jean Piaget theory focuses on the first twelve years of a child’s life. Erik Erikson’s theory focuses on a person complete life. In this paper I will be focusing on the differences between Piaget’s and Erikson’s theory on child development.

There are six milestones to understand the emotional role in the cognition development the begin life cycle. The first one is making sense of sensations. This is the first time the infant makes sense of the world around them. The next milestone is Intimacy and Relating. This is when they start to react to other feeling by their emotional cues and actions. The third milestone is Buds of Intentionality. This is when te infant uses gesture and expressions to initiate and respond to a

After observing a nine month old child for this Child Observation paper, the author of this paper has taken copious notes during the session. The purpose of this paper is recognizing the biological, cognitive and psychosocial development of the child. The author of this paper identified the background history of the child, the observation made and the development process of the child.

Social and Emotional is as important as physical and motor development. Physical and motor development are much easier to observe than social and emotional development but it doe not dismiss how important this concept is. It is through social and emotional development that a child self- awareness and their ability to regulate body and behavior. Transition is very important for the success of a child in school and social life. When a child is aware that he or she is separate from their environment than they can began to process and understand the world and establish meaningful relationships through their work or play. In order to understand the data and analysis of the children we must keep in mind that each child is unique in his or her rate of growth and development and there will be major milestone differences. This paper focuses on the observations of social and emotional development in children ages 3 years to 8 years old.

As a conclusion, there are four stages of infant development. Which are birth to 4 weeks, age 1 to 3 months, age 3 to 6 months and age 6 to 12 months. Different stages of month discussing difference type of behaviour. It shows how the way to develop attachment for maintaining the baby or infant. There are also several steps that should be taken by the parents as to know their infant’s behaviour better. The infant has different types of behaviour as they were grown up and these behaviour should be acknowledged by all parents in order to raise up their children in a good

After infancy, individuals move into the early childhood stage of life. During this stage, a distinct amount of physical growth occurs. Height and weight change drastically during this time; children grow, on average, two and a half inches in height and between five and ten pounds per year (Santrock, 2017, pg.203).

“You cannot predict the outcome of human development .All you can do like a farmer create the conditions under which it wellbeing flourish"(Robinson.K.2001)This essay will discussed social , family and environmental influences on human development ,across in whole life-span .And relate three theorist 's respective concepts including Vygotsky ,Bronfenbrenner and Bowlby who has made great contributions in early childhood education ,combined their theory as well give more conclusion .