Childhood

In the article Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Environments for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Families in Early Childhood Settings, authors Tracy Burt, Aimee Gelnaw, and Lee Klinger Lesser discuss the importance for educators to create classrooms and learning environments that are inclusive of LGBT children and families. Through their discussion of the importance of LGBT inclusion Burt et al., break the article into two topics. They begin with describing why it is vital to…

Middle Childhood Paper (age 7-12) How would we qualifier the growth rate of Middle childhood? Middle childhood kids go through a slower rate of psychological development compare to early childhood children. However, they still go through the same types of developments including, physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. On October 10, 2015, I conducted an interview with Paola Bataba about her psychological development. Paola is 10 year old and is in fifth grade. Firstly, I interviewed Paola…

What is an Assessment Tool? The early year of children’s development is an important time for the growth of children’s brain growth and the opportunity in maximizing children learning in the different developmental domain i.e. physical, intellectual, emotional and social. Poor quality child care is of a concern as children requires responsive and simulating environment from the caregiver; this in turn helps them to enhance their social, cognitive and language development (Bronfenbrenner &…

Child development is significant during the first years of life. The events that occur during infancy and toddlerhood will influence the child during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Starting at birth through 12 months of age children are referred to as infants, and then toddlers’ from12 to 36 months of age. (Hutchison, 2014, 97). During the first 3 years of life the child’s brain is easily stimulated and able to learn rapidly due to the overproduction of synapses followed by a reduction…

In her paper “The Teening of Childhood” by Kay Hymowitz that was published in movementforchildhood.com, Hymowitz describes how media is changing the way of the tweens of today. Media has a way of changing a perspective at a childhood to tweens. The main ways media is having an influence on tweens begins with children’s toys, such as Barbie, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Media has a certain way of changing a young child into a tween that wants so much more.…

The communication in the early childhood classrooms serve children in the areas of speech and/or language. In addition to their specific speech and language skills, children will learn other social communication skills, such as following directions, waiting for a turn, listening and sharing. It is important to provide a variety of experiences to support children’s communication and language skills. This lesson describes how you can create language- and communication-rich environments that engage…

aged 0-2 years develop language. More specifically this essay will focus on how language can be learnt and developed through different types of interactions, the role that educators have in regards to children’s language development within an early childhood education and care (ECEC) centre and the different types of learning environments that can be used to develop language. Language is how people communicate…

values, attitudes and appropriate actions which are deemed significant for particular culture. The aspect of socialization, especially in children, is, therefore, an area that cannot be ignored. In light of this, this paper will look at the impact of childhood socialization. For the first part, the paper will concentrate on gathering information. This will be done through personal experience and interviews. For the second part, the paper will focus on telling sociological stories. Part II:…

Would you let your little sister compete in, childhood beauty pagents at 4 months to 16 years old? Would you let her strut across the stage in, inappropriate clothes that show just “alittle” to much, or even wearing a bikini? Beauty pagents are held all over the country, all the time. Some people believe that it’s ok to have little girls participate in them. Others may think different, they may think that beauty pagents are not ok. Short skirts and revealing dresses are inappropriate and not…

1.12 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM In Indian childhood, there are several disadvantages to be dealt with, such as poverty, unhappy family situations, trauma, insecure life, abuse and personal issues like stress, frustration, and conflicts. With all these disadvantages, vulnerable children try to maintain their normal life. The child has to develop a mental and social competence. Various policies are made for their future development but children still become victim and they are exploited.…