Developments During Early Childhood

Developments During Early Childhood
Physical, cognitive, and psychosocial are the three major developments that children learn to live by. Children learn so many new things as they grow and, these three developments tend to change the way children think about the world and themselves. When children go through physical development their appearance tend to change as they are growing older. They also learn great motor skills. Cognitive development is when child start to use their language skills to communicate with other. Finally there is the psychosocial development, in which, the children become more social and start to understand emotional feeling of others and themselves.
Physical Development During the physical development stage, children
Children tend to use their large muscles when they are doing gross motor skills like jumping, running, and skipping. Fine motor skills children tend to use their eye-hand coordination like in drawing, coloring, and cutting. As children grow, they tend to learn many new skills that they were not able to do before. An example of a gross motor skill is when a three year old can jump in place using both legs, but a four or five year old can hop in place using only one leg. An example of a fine motor skill is when a child progresses from drawing just lines to actually drawing shapes to represent something. It is important for parents not to compare their child to another. Each child has his/her own pace in learning different motor skills at different
This usually happens around the age of four. Four year olds are now able to recognize themselves in pictures, mirrors, and they are also able to identify and describe themselves. Now that children are able to identify themselves; they now understand about their culture. They also tend to see the differences in their peer's cultures.
Emotions
Emotions start playing a huge role during early childhood, especially around the age of five. Children now understand how they feel about certain things. They also tend to worry about how others feel about them, especially their parents. Emotions become clearer to children around the age of four or five where as to a child of three years old, they just understand if a person is happy or sad.
Erikson's theory on emotions is initiative vs. guilt "in which children balance the urge to pursue goals with moral reservations that may prevent carrying them out" (Papalia, Olds, and Feldman, 2006, pg. 298). This becomes a conflict for children who just do not know what to do.