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Child Development

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTIONThe time of physical, cognitive and social growth that starts from births and continue tilladulthood, is known as child development. It has been determined that the social, physical &emotional growth of them has a direct impact on their overall development. This essay will coverchildren development from birth till five years in relation to various development. Cognitive development in children from 2 to 5 years.Jean Piaget, a French Psychologist published a theory in 1952, regarding cognitivedevelopment of children at different stages (Gillon and Macfarlane, 2017). It is basically aprocess of construction of thoughts which involves remembering, decision making and problemsolving from infancy through adolescence to adulthood. It has been determined that, movingtowards goal can include various forms of reasoning, perception, attention, memory & otherbrain functions. The first stages in hies theory of cognitive development is the sensorimotorwhich lasts from birth till 2 years old. It is a kind of process that enables children to learn and atthe age of 5 years they start integrating prior knowledge with formal education (Stackhouse,2014). First activity for children cognitive development is play. Children at the age of 3 to 5years learn a lot by both structured and unstructured play. At 5 they develop cognitively whileengaging themselves in free playing. They boost their imagination power and also conflictsolving skills. Structures games may include “Concentration” which are considered veryeffective in improving their memory. For example, parents or caregivers can make use of cardsthat have pictures on it, or they can even make their own index cards. Then they keep few cardsfacing down & as their child to turn one over, look at the picture and then select another cardwith that same picture matching the first card. This is because they will learn how to eliminatechoices by remembering the pictures (Tomblin, Oleson and Moeller, 2014). Second activity can be singing vocabulary words. This develops skills in children bymaking funny tomes about rhyming words and also counting from 1 to 10, songs such asalphabet songs. Moreover, parents have better chance to make their child in cognitivedevelopment through songs, and numbers. Sorting and classifying can be another activity for their cognitive development. Thisactivity is considered one of the first activities for early learner that support children in1

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