Week 4: Your Childhood Roots; Ljoiner

Week 4: Your Childhood Roots; Ljoiner

 As adults we look back at how we act in certain situations it all starts with our childhood roots.  In this weeks reading we learned about early childhood and early adolescences.  One of the first things that we need to look at for early childhood development is in the growing stages of the motor skills.  Pediatricians have charts given certain dates or years to check off where a child is in their life according to their gross motor skills and fine motor skills.  This is a check off list to just see where a child fits because some will have a hard time developmentally getting to certain points throughout their life.  Such as at two years old you're gross motor skills should be running climbing stairs jumps from objects with both feet.  And you're fine motor skills should be learning how to throw ball take a ball turn the page and beginning to scribble. This chart can be found on page 132 in the life smart textbook,   Table 6.1.  Many kids will learn how to use these motor skills by doing repetitions or learning by watching a parent or guardian complete these actions. At this stage many children are learning by watching as others do.  But in early childhood it is not only the physical  Side of how a child is setting the roots but also the cognitive development that plays a crucial role for years to come. Piaget was one of the leading fundamentalists on this theory of cognitive development. Piaget uses the pre-operationalperiod to describe that children use objects  to describe what is going around in their environment and also the relationships that they have with others.
 I find PJs Siri on cognitive development very intriguing do too when I watch my nephews play around in the use deferred imitation or symbolic play to portray what they are trying to communicate with me.   They may not be able to speak as well as an adult for an older child but they use their body language and objects around them to represent how things are in their life.
 Another issue that I think is something to bring to the surface is the  situation of parents going through divorce and having young children in the middle of it, I myself am a child that has been through a divorce family and it does play a big role in the fundamental roots that a child needs to  develop.  This study is very hard to have substantial evidence due to the ages of the children can vary with in a household that is going through divorce and also the severity of the divorce and what social class they live in.  The study still show that 50% of all marriages end up in divorce 60% to get remarried and 60% divorces in the United States involve children.
 This is something that could  have a very substantial effect on children no matter what age they are through the divorce. I myself have gone through a divorce family as well as my sisters are going through currently a divorce situation. Each one is different in their own right but some can be good and some can be ugly.
 Early childhood is a transitions into middle childhood and you see a lot of the physical development in a child throughout the middle childhood rapidly increasing as well as the brain development. The health  sector has always been present but even more so with in the past 10 years of increasing obesity in children and Howard has no effect on life decisions or life paths that could potential he lead to very high health risks.  Many schools now are going or trying to decrease the amount of sugar that students have and also fat content that they have throughout the day.  Working in a school I see this almost every day and I am all about making healthy choices.  As before in the early childhood stage the middle childhood stage is also crucial on children for the target of development of challenging students to increase their critical thinking and problem-solving strategies. This is also where  you see many children increase their moral compass in what is right and what is wrong to do.
Some children will try to push the limits to see how far they can g some children will try to push the limits to see how far they can  get away with something before getting in trouble.  As kids grow physically and mentally  self-esteem is starting to take a toll on some children in increasing or decreasing stress.  This is the start of kids fitting  in going along with the status quo.

- Landon