Three Specific Areas In Early Childhood Development

This chapter outlined three specific areas in Early Childhood development, section 1. How does a young child’s body and brain grow and change? 2. How do young children’s motor skills develop? 3. What are some important aspects of young children’s health? The first chapter outline could have consisted of all my N because it was all relatively new to me but I wanted to incorporate some of the rest of the chapter into my new knowledge so I picked out a few interesting facts from this section. A new fact I obtained through this chapter that chronically ill children tend to be shorter than their more healthy peers and children that are physically abused and neglected do not secrete adequate growth hormones and this can also restrict their
The visual expectations test in figure 8.7 on page 229 was intriguing that children could not determine when they dropped the ball through a tube it did not follow the tube but they thought it would be gravity pulled straight to the slot directly below the point they released the ball. The four developmental stages in relation to the children’s drawings was interesting how there are specific characteristics to look for with each age beginning with, age 2 containing the basic 20 scribbles, age 2 to 3 placement stage, age 3 shape stage, age 3 to 4 design stage, and finally age 4 to 5 pictorial stage. Sleep and sleep problems two topics of interest included night terrors which are less common, little to no memory of the dream, children return to sleep relatively quickly and thankful children normally grow out of this stage. Nightmares normally awaken the child occur closer to morning not normally right after falling to sleep. The Nutrition section had a significant amount of new information,
(OMG) 4. The statistics of obesity in children is unbelievable but on a positive note the numbers during 2011-2012 showed a substantial drop in the obesity rate of children 2 to 5 years of age and did decline by 43%. 5. A study completed involving 34 countries the United States had the second highest rate of childhood obesity. Obesity in children is attributing to the increase in type 2 diabetes and hypertension in children younger than 5 years of age. Physical activity has shown a decrease within our society and now it is being reported children in elementary school settings are getting only half the required amount of active necessary to live a healthy lifestyle. I understand academics is necessary but I believe we have forgotten as educators if we do not have healthy well balanced children our culture pays the price later on with a very sick society of adults. I was surprised that the seventh leading cause of death to young children is attributed to firearms the United States ranks as one of the highest compared to 26 other countries. Those countries involved in the test Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands had zero fatalities to children in their respective