Basic Principal of Children Developement

Anaxagoras Alexius

BASIC PRINCIPAL

OF

CHILD DEVELOPMENT

A Guidance for Parents and Teachers

What is child development?

Child development can be defined as biological, emotional,
and psychological changes that occur in human beings
between birth and the end of adolescence and through
adulthood as the individual progresses dependency to
increasing autonomy

Why Should we know about it?

Many scholars and psychologists believe that early child
development is important because it can affect their
personality. For example, Sigmund Freud (1953) found that
unfavoured childhood experience leads to maladjustment.
This statement also can be supported by Erik Erickson that
says "...childhood is the scene of man's upbringing as man,
the place where our particular virtues and vice slowly but
clearly develop and make themselves felt"

The important learning child development:

We as an adult can understand well what they're thinking.
It can help parents and teachers to develop children behaviour.
Parents or teachers can use their skill and knowledge in child
development to young children cope with emotional distress and
trauma.
Teachers and parents can act as guidance in moulding children
behaviour towards the right path.
Know what to expect of children
Learn what to do to help a child develop all of his or her abilities

There are four areas, or domains, of child development:

Physical

Social

Emotional

Cognitive / Mental

PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT:

1.Development is a continuous process.
2.Gradual progress in a step-by-step fashion.
3.The rate of development varies among children
4.Proceeds from the general to the specific.
5.Development proceeds from the head downwards
6.Shows an increase in complexity.
7.Relatively orderly / sequentially
8.Takes place gradually
9.Constant interaction between all factors of development
10.Influenced by both hereditary & environmental factors

Factors influencing child developmen:

Genetic
Environment Factors



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