...Parents Influence on Child Development Parents play an important role in their children’s developmental stages such as; cognitive emotional health, social ability, personality and a healthy adult life. All four areas of a Childs development needs are influenced by their environment but most important their parents, or any power adult figure in their lives. If a child is born with a disorder, mental disability or illness of any type that is for a fact out of the parent’s control. In contrast, if a child slowly develops negative behavior in any four aspects, I believe the parents play a part in this. A parent influences what their child is exposed too, different people to new places. We were shown “Parenthood” a comedy that holds facts about family dynamics. For example Gil and Karen Buckman have a family of three kids, the oldest; Kevin needs to be in a special education environment. Due to Kevin’s behavior in school his teachers are able to detect an area in which he needs a more intimate learning experience. If any parent or myself were to have Kevin or a child similar to him, I would want him to accept his problem as well learn to live a healthy lifestyle. In order to make a child in Kevin’s shoes comfortable I would ensure he interacted with other kids his age who were both special ED and the regular student whenever he could, this way he would learn social skills. I believe that parents should tell their children why they love them, and have open relationships in...
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...Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense of Self Esteem & How Parents Influence Their Children’s Development Pages: 8 The first article I research is title “ Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense of Self Esteem” this article basically explains a child self-esteem and how parents, teachers, and friends have an important role in how the child perceive their self. Self-esteem is the way an individual perceives herself, her thoughts and feelings about herself and her ability to achieve in ways that are important to her. The article talks about how this self-esteem reflects a child’s own perception and expectations, but also by the perceptions and expectations of important people in their life. This article also talks about some of the characteristics that a child needs to develop or obtain in life. These characteristics are a sense of security, a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a sense of personal competence and pride, a sense of trust, a sense of responsibility, a sense of contribution, a sense of making real choices and decisions, a sense of self-discipline and self-control, a sense of encouragement, support and reward, a sense of accepting mistakes and failure, and a sense of family self-esteem. The most important characteristics children depend on are a sense of family self-esteem. A child’s self-esteem development starts within the family and is influenced deeply on the feelings and perceptions that a family has on itself. The second article I research...
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...The Bioecological Model of Human Development TaShara Smith SOC312 June 6, 2011 Stephanie Heald The way children develop is a very important process that every individual should know. All children develop differently; all children can’t be treated the same when involving their development. To understand the way children and adolescents grow one must know and understand the model of human development. This paper will focus on the Bioecological Model of Human development; the different systems within human development and the difference between each system. The Bioecological Model of Human development recognizes that humans don’t develop in seclusion; but in relation to their family, home, school, community, and society. Urie Bronfenbrenner created the model of human development to help everyone get a better understanding of how the growth of human development begins. The stages of development stem from the famous Piaget, Erikson, and Gardner they are the models in which the cognitive development we have arrives from. There are four basic systems of The Bioecological Model of Human Development. Microsystems is the system which is the smaller of the contexts and the stage in which the information that is heard and seen by infants and early childhood is embedded in them and this is made up of the environment where the child lives and moves. The individuals and societies the child interacts with make up the microsystem. Immediate family members, teachers, friends...
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...The Bioecological Model of Human Development SOC312: Child Family & Society (BMF1234A) Instructor: Howard McNair September 24, 2012 The way children develop is a very important process that every individual should know. All children develop differently; all children can’t be treated the same when involving their development. To understand the way children and adolescents grow one must know and understand the model of human development. This paper will focus on the Bioecological Model of Human development; the different systems within human development and the difference between each system. The Bioecological Model of Human development recognizes that humans don’t develop in seclusion; but in relation to their family, home, school, community, and society. Urie Bronfenbrenner created the model of human development to help everyone get a better understanding of how the growth of human development begins. The stages of development stem from the famous Piaget, Erikson, and Gardner they are the models in which the cognitive development we have arrives from. There are four basic systems of The Bioecological Model of Human Development. Microsystems is the system which is the smaller of the contexts and the stage in which the information that is heard and seen by infants and early childhood is embedded in them and this is made up of the environment where the child lives and moves. The individuals and societies the child interacts with make up the microsystem...
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...harm to the individual, as I believe, depends more on how the individual will use what television media offers to him/her. In the modern time, not only adults watch different media, but young children are also exposed to watching different TV programs, cartoons, educational movies etc. Parents of young children can use baby media to calm a child, as a safe replacement for other activities, as the background, to distract the attention of the child, etc. Some parents also tend to believe that watching television programs by children is a necessary element of a normal development of a child. However, these assumptions are often baseless and not supported by any facts (Brown, 2011). In early childhood, there is some invisible but intensive development in the brain. The brain of a 5-year-old child in size is almost the same as that of an adult. Brain structures in early childhood are plastic and flexible. A child after one`s birth has approximately 2500 synapses. Until the age of 2-3-year, the number of synapses in neurons increases to 15000 (Craig& Baucum, 2002, p. 319). These and other facts of neuroscience help us to understand why and how important it is to train and develop a young child. Since early childhood is a very important...
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...Early Childhood Development Paper By: Pamela Smith March 8, 2014 PSY 375 Life Span Human Development Introduction While researching this topic I found it to be interesting that there is a controversy about this topic. When Judith Rich Harris published her book in 1998 "The Nurture Assumption" which in the book Harris revels that parents have little to no influence over the long-term development of their child's development. Therefore, developmental psychologist have found themselves on the defense about this topic. Harris believed that the child developed more by the people around them and the surrounding around them outside the home. Her ideas went widespread and gained media attention and therefore the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a conference on parentingr." The fruit of this conference is a book, "Parenting and the Child's World: Influences on Academic, Intellectual and Socio emotional Development," to be published next year by Erlbaum. Chapters by Harris and behavioral geneticist David Rowe, PhD, present data to support Harris's view, while a cadre of developmental psychologists detail decades of research that they feel demonstrates the role parents play in influencing children's development" (Azar, pg. 62). Parents do matter, from the way they parent, to the foods they let the children eat, academics, socially, and personality development in a child. When looking...
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...Infants and Social/Emotional Development Maria Collica Empire State College Infants and Social/Emotional Development 1 Is it a given that the quality of nurturing of the caregiver plays the biggest role in the social and temperamental well being of the child? Yes and no. Infants are born with predetermined characteristics within them. How a caregiver reacts to the infants needs, will certainly be a factor in the child’s well being as they grow. Caregivers, usually mothers, which is the prototype, are the ones who form the first attachment to an infant. How we help the infant grow on these attachments will set the stage for his/her social well being. Attachment relationships should provide a foundation for social learning. Infants of depressed mothers are at risk. They show depressed social behavior, not only with their mothers but also when interacting with strangers. (Steinberg, Vandell, Bornstein. Development: Infancy through Adolescence p153) Researchers have found that attachment patterns established early in life can lead to a number of outcomes. Children who had a healthy and secure attachment during infancy will have a stronger...
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...Child Development During a child’s early development they learn more quickly than any other time in their life. They are eager to learn and are easily influenced throughout their childhood. These influences are categorized in three different groups. They are social, economic, and cultural influences. These different influences can affects a child’s development both negatively and positively. Social influence is very important for all ages, but it changes and forms over the course of childhood. Social influence comes in many shapes and sizes, but there are some majors influences that affect a child more dramatically. One of the main positive social influences is family. Family is especially important because they are the people that a child spends most of their early childhood with. They have a direct and indirect influences on the challenges that children encounter and have the resources they need to accomplish those certain challenges. Within the family children learn social skills and attach to people who love and care for them. Children who have parents that spend time with them are able to reach out and relate to others. There is a theory called the Attachment Theory which explain that the emergence of an emotional bond between an infant and their parent or caregiver and the way in which this bond affects the child's behavioral and emotional development into adulthood. According to this theory, children who have a secure bond with their parent use this attachment to...
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...Various components influence the overall development of children. It is not simply the society in which each child is born and lives but certain and identifiable parts of the society. Although every aspect of child development involves genetics, environmental factors contribute significantly in the personality development of children. Subcultures of race/ethnicity, economic status, faiths/religion, and locality/region, in addition to particular groups such as friends and family distinctly affect each child. Throughout the lifespan, people constantly confront new or varying situations—both individual and societal—and need to understand how to adjust to these conditions. The most significant time of acculturation occurs during infancy and childhood, which establishes the foundation of every child’s future personality. However, whether one becomes an extrovert or introvert, a genius or average, enthusiastic or passive is contingent upon many unique effects and is not easy to foresee when a child is first born. Familial, associative, academic, and communal influence impacts one’s worldview—how one reasons, socializes and develops a sense of self. This research examines environmental influences—such as parenting styles and attachment; social economic status and parent stability; sibling positions and relations; neighborhood and peer groups, including school and mass media—on the personality development of children. The Role of the Environment in Personality Development of Children ...
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...paper Felicia Hughes Child Family & Society: SOC312 Melda Gaskins Date submitted Introduction Urie Bronfenbrenner led to the development of the ecological theories that shape development. He depicts four systems that contain norms, rules and norms that influence a child’s development. Renamed ‘bioecological systems theory’, emphasis is that the biological changes in a child are the primary sources of any development while the external factors are huge contributors ‘will steer the development’, (Addison, J.T, 1992). It has been held that the body supports and directs all body actions and operations influenced by the outward interaction with the environment. The microsystem encompasses the relationships and interactions a child has with her immediate surroundings (Berk, 2000). Structures in the microsystem include family, school, neighborhood, or childcare environments. At this level, relationships have impact in two directions - both away from the child and toward the child. For example, a child’s parents may affect his beliefs and behavior; however, the child also affects the behavior and beliefs of the parent. Bronfenbrenner calls these bi-directional influences, and he shows how they occur among all levels of environment. The interaction of structures within a layer and interactions of structures between layers is key to this theory. At the microsystem level, bi-directional influences are strongest and have the greatest impact on the child. However, interactions...
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...Infancy and Early Childhood Development Cynthia Miranda PSY 375 July 2, 2012 Dr. Aneta Bhojwani Infancy and Early Childhood Development Every human being begins developing in one way or another, from the moment they come into this world. Development and all its aspects begin in infancy and continue throughout one’s entire lifetime. It is a common belief that infants and young children are influenced by the environment that surrounds them. Cognitive and social aspects of development are shaped and molded at an early age, as well as language, speech, perception, and motor skills. A young child’s life is influenced by parents and family members, which is why they have a significant impact on the child’s development. When a child is old enough to attend school, he or she will also begin to adapt to the atmosphere of the school they are attending and to educational environment in that school; this will in turn affect the child’s cognitive development and social skills. Family Influences When a baby is first born, his or her brain begins to go through developmental changes. During the early stages of childhood, experiences can be split into two categories, experience-expectant and experience-dependent. Expectant experiences are those experiences that are common and somewhat universal experiences, and that most infants go through. Some of these experiences can be, but are not limited to, love from parents or families, perception of surrounding objects, and recognizing...
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...periods and parent-child interaction, neurobiological influences, and environmental influences. In the next part of the essay, I’m going to describe how these concepts pertain to the development of social anxiety, as well as how they interact with each other. Finally, I’ll address the question of whether my trait is a product of nature or nurture, and summarise. To begin with, I’m going to discuss genetic factors. Genetics involve the heredity of traits from parents to offspring, and influence many of the characteristics that offspring inherit. While many genetic traits are physical, such as hair colour, eye colour, height, etc., personality traits and disorders can be inherited as well. Analyses of genetic influence on certain traits can be seen especially through twin and adoptive studies. For example, in the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, Maria...
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...the interest of parenting. Entering any given bookstore there are shelves lined with books that offer information and advice for parents. In today’s world we are exposed with a growing number of television, magazines, websites online, and other forms that are all devoted to the topic of parenting. Given all the new material out there about parenting some controversy has arose when it comes to the different parenting styles and how they affect children, their development, and even their education. While being a parent can be one of the most difficult jobs a person will ever have. It may be especially challenging when the child is in their adolescent years and the years they spend thorough out school. A preschool aged child’s social emotional development can be influenced in many ways; one of which being the early style in which their parent uses to raise them. (Dewar). A study examined the relationship between social emotional development of preschool aged children and four identified parenting styles. Parenting style has been found to predict child well-being in the areas of social competence, academic performance, psychosocial development, and behavior problems (Baumrind). Most parents want their children to become independent, productive and able to cope with the world. Since the 1950s, researchers have studied the effects of various influences in young people’s lives, including parenting (Long). There are many different ways of parenting children. Some are more favorable...
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...first two years, a child’s main Influences derive from his or her immediate environment. This system includes influences from parents, siblings, immediate family, caregivers, close family friends, and the limited exposure outside the home environment. As a child progresses from infancy to young childhood, his or her environment expands to include the child’s ecosystem (community, schools, church, and neighbors). Slowly through life, new influences add to the child’s history, but the most influential during these two stages are the family and early education. The main contextual influences in infancy and early childhood include parents, siblings, grandparents, and often surrogates (nannies, foster parents, adopted parents, and routine caretakers). These individual’s influence language, socialization, emotional development, temperament, attachments, and they provide the first cultural context. The family is the foundation for psychosocial, cognitive, and biosocial development. An infant is completely dependent on the parent, caretaker, or surrogate. Early experiences that mold psychosocial and cognitive development are dependent on socialization within the child’s family. A newborn quickly learns to associate a mother’s smell to comfort and nourishment. A few months later, a child delights in the faces of his or her family. Gradually, the child will begin to sort through the speech stream and learn the language spoken by his or her parents. Arranz, Oliva, De Miguel,...
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...Influences of Childhood Development La Tesha Simpson PSY/600 Developmental Psychology July 15, 2013 Judy Pendleton, PsyD Influences of Childhood Development Children are impressionable and share the characteristics of a sponge in a sense, by means of picking up a spill and letting it ooze out of their personality or behavior. Children imitate most of what they see and hear whether negative or positive. Imitating is learning and learning is form of development. Everyone and everything can influence the choices children make during childhood. The purpose of this paper is to investigate influences of childhood development. Development of any kind during childhood can have life altering factors. Some of those factors will include career development starting during early childhood, economic resources in child development, and socioeconomic status and child development. This investigation will demonstrate whether the influences are healthy or unhealthy development during childhood. Career Development during Childhood Parents and professional role models may influence children in their career choice. For example, if a parent is a doctor a child may find that exciting and want to follow the footsteps of the parent. Perhaps, the child learns how police officers and fire fighters give back to the community and want to do the same. Career development start during childhood and covers the course of life (Porfeli & Lee, 2012). Researchers show how an individual establishes...
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