Stages of Children’s Growth and Development
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Children grow and develop because of the inter action between nature and nurtured, what they have inherited and what they learn from their environment.
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I’ve read an article that there have been decades of endless debate on whether is it heredity on the environment that plays a greater role in growth and development. Those who say it is nature that determines human growth and development insist that all children are born with inherited psychological traits that are transmitted directly through the genes from generation to generation.
What we are born with our heredity potential can be nourished and developed or stifled and delayed depending on the type, the amount and the quality of our environment encounters, it may be too late or too early.
Children go through stages of growth and development with a predictable sequence or pattern. The pattern of how fast children precede though the stages of growth and development depends upon the interaction of factors like maturation and learning.
In our children’s developmental characteristics, these children’s are not like adults, there are techniques and approaches for teaching them. We must take into consideration their characteristics and their needs and interest at children at specific stages of growth and development.
Children’s cognitive growth in any one stages depends upon there activity. The development of their brain power is not fixed at birth but is a function of appropriate activities to learn. This means that they should not be made to sit still and to listen to or observed others ad the primary means of learning. Intelligence equals activity.
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