Intro to Child Development

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Intro to Child Development

• Adapted from Chapter 1
• The Developing Child 7th Edition

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Vocabulary Terms

• Child development
• The study of how children grow in different ways
  (physically, mentally, emotionally and socially)
• Behavior
• A way of acting or responding
• Nutrition
• A balance of all the food substances needed for
  health and growth

• Formula
• A mixtures of milk or milk substitutes and added
  nutrients
• Sequence
• Step by step pattern
• Heredity
• Passing of characteristics that are physically
  inherited from previous generations
• Environment
• The people, places and things that surround and
  influence an individual

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Rewind

• What was your childhood like?
• What were your likes? Dislikes?
• What kind of relationship did you have with older
  children and teens?

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Fast forward

• How would you describe your relationships with
  children in your life today?
• Do you enjoy children of all ages?
• Do children like you?

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What can I do to make a difference in a childs
life?
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Understanding children

• As you interact with children
• You will more fully appreciate all
  characteristics of human development
• Your powers of observation will improve
• You will discover that children are fun

• You will be able to apply your learning to
  everyday life
• You will learn practical techniques of caring for
  children
• You will begin to see why children act, feel, and
  they as they do

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How is childhood different now?

• Work
• Health and nutrition
• Dress
• Parental love

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The Growth of Child Study

• There is now a great importance on understanding
  and guiding children
• Binet, Piaget, Freud, Gesell and Erikson have all
  played an important role in understanding
  childhood behavior

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Characteristics of Development

• Similar for everyone
• Builds on earlier learning
• Proceeds at an individual rate
• Different areas of child development are
  interrelated
• Continuous throughout life

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Importance of Play

• Physically
• Muscles in back, arms and legs develop
• Strength and balance
• Fine motor skills
• Intellectually
• Gathering and organizing

• Emotionally
• Helps children work through lifes challenges and
  problems
• Socially
• Gradually learn to play together

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How to observe play

• Choose a time and a place
• Record what you see
• Watch interactions with others
• Keep observations confidential

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Influences on Development

• Heredity
• Environment
• Peers
• Community

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Exit Slip

• On your own paper, discuss your response to the
  following statement
• Only students who already are parents, plan to
  become parents or who want careers in
  child-related fields should study child
  development.
• Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

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