Child Growth

 

Child Growth

In recent years  the fields of pediatrics thinking and neuroscience has made important help in understanding how children and children's brains grow and develop across childhood.

The first three years of life are particularly intense period of growth in all areas of a child's growth. Specifically truths about the brain are presented for each age, and extra information has been added across the domains that relate to these facts, including new optional behaviors for effective parenting.

The five areas of growth arranged according to age group, many subdivisions provide a summary of common behaviors that can be expected of children.

 These behaviors are additional divided into five separate grounds, or areas of development:

·      physical,

·      emotional,

·      social,

·      mental,

·      and moral.

 Each area of development includes short-lived images of common behaviors related with that area of development  along with recommended caregiver responses that can be used to inspire growth .When referring to the first two subdivisions of this part users will notice that the fifth area of development is not included for children who are younger than one year because they are not able to differentiate between right and wrong until they progress beyond infancy. Children engaged by the child welfare system especially those who have been removed from their birth families have likely experienced shocking events in their young lives thereby impacting their growth. A removal foremost to the separation of the family in and of itself can cause trauma.

Children's relationships behaviors and sense of self may all be impacted.

 Birth to Six Months child growth is of learning to trust others and be secure in the world learning how to get personal needs met during this stage, the child’s brain is:

A “work-in-progress” as it’s been impacted in the womb by nutrition and chemicals only 25% of the size of an adults brain More developed in the lower region which controls automatic behaviors like

·      grasping

·      Crying

·      Sleeping

·      and feeding

 ready to be shaped by interactions with caregivers and surroundings very susceptible—trauma, even in infancy can affect development of attention, memory language, and thinking.

 Six Months to One Year child growth tasks are learning to trust others and be secure in the world Improving power direction and becoming mobile obtaining increased control of head, hands, fingers, legs, etc.,

As the anxious system endures to develop learning three-dimensional concepts and how to manipulate and move in the surrounding environment learning to adjust to short periods of separation from the prime caregiver during this stage, the child’s brain is:

•  quickly developing,
• particularly the higher level rational cortex,

which effects fine motor skills like a nipper grasp, as well as color vision, attachment, and the motor paths complex to nutrition when babies do not receive satisfactory protein and calories in their diet, their physical and mental health is affected  “Wired” to learn all the languages in the world.

However, babies between 6 and 12 months now prefer the sounds of the language spoken by their caregivers.

 One to Two Years child growth tasks are learning and founding a distinct sense of self through a continuous survey of the world developing communication skills and feeling the responsiveness of others learning to use memory and acquiring the basics of self-control during this stage, the child’s brain:

Builds neural paths by reciting and practicing tasks has matured enough to memory actions or events that happened earlier in the day is focused on learning language is defenseless to permanent changes through contact with toxins such as lead or stressors such as domestic violence in the home needs high levels of fat in the diet for continued growth.

Two to Three Years children growth tasks are learning and founding a positive, distinct self through a continuous examination of the world developing communication skills and feeling the responsiveness of others using memory and acquiring the basics of self-control learning to separate thinking from feeling through experiencing chances to make choices becoming aware of limits creating personal solutions to simple problems during this stage, the child’s brain:

·      supports its motor circuits so walking,

·      eating,

·      climbing,

·      pinching,

·      jumping,

·      and closing all improve.

 Begins problem solving.Remains open and supple to learning other languages because the language center is still so active.

 Three to Four Years child growth tasks are learning to differentiate between reality and made-up becoming comfortable with personal sexual identity learning to make connections and distinctions between feelings, thoughts, and activities learning to solve problems by starting and creating during this stage, the child’s brain has increased to 80% of its adult weight is refining neural connections made through regular motivation. Connections used often will grow stronger while connections will weaken if used infrequently.

 Four to Five Years child growth tasks are learning to differentiate between reality and made-up becoming comfortable with personal sexual identity learning to make connections and differences between feelings, thoughts, and actions learning to solve problems by starting and creating during this stage, a child’s brain benefits from make-believe play.

This type of play builds important pathways in the brain and allows children to: build the basis for abstract thinking by creating symbols develop empathy by putting themselves in others’ practice classification and categorization.

 Five to Six Years child growth tasks are learning to discriminate between reality and made-up becoming comfortable with personal sexual identity learning to make connections and distinctions between feelings, thoughts, and actions learning to solve problems by starting and creating during this stage, the child’s brain is nearing adult capacity and size is in the middle of a critical growth period, which is why school districts routinely screen children entering kindergarten to understand their mental, social, and emotional development should be primed for reading in this and the coming year, as the language center continues to help children make meaning of their world. How children carry their thoughts and feelings, their needs, they're sympathetic of their relationships, and their problems depend on their developmental level and their aptitude to use language. Understanding what children are trying to convey also depends upon your own sensitivity to their cues, your skills at observation and assessment, and your ability to relate to them meaningfully and effectively.