Childhood and Well-being

This report explores the role of childhood and well-being in human development and health. It discusses the social construction of childhood, the impact of technology, and the importance of health and well-being. The report also highlights the interconnections between physical, mental, and emotional factors in achieving holistic well-being.

CHILDHOOD AND WELL
BEING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY ...................................................................................................................................3
CHILDHOOD .............................................................................................................................3
HEALTH AND Well BEING ..................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Childhood and well-being plays major role in the life of a human being. It assists various
development stages as preschool, age of the puberty (Alanen, Brooke. and Mayall. 2015).
Report focuses on the childhood and health and well-being. It focuses on the areas such as social
construction, technology and society in Today's world and many more.
MAINBODY
CHILDHOOD
Childhood is known as the age of span that can ranges from birth to the adulthood. As
per the theory of the Piaget it is described within the two stages such as preoperative and
concrete operational stage. It can be described as the various development stages such as the
stage of the preschool, school age as well as the age of the puberty. Many nations the age
regarding the maturity is considered when the childhood legally ends as well as that person
becomes adult legally that can be ranges from 15 to 21 accompanied by he 18 the most common
age (Gray. and MacBlain, 2015).
Definition
Childhood consider as the time for children to grow strong and confident in school and
at the time of play with love and boost of their family. It is considered as the precious time
within which children must live free from fear, protected, safe from violence, exploitation and
abuse. It focuses on the time space between the birth of the child and attainment of the
adulthood. It is the condition and state of a child's life regarding quality of those years (Alanen,
Brooke. and Mayall. eds., 2015).
Construction
Age is considered as a crucial aspect regarding that has important crucial bearing as it can
determines what kinds of employment can gain by an individual, whether they can marry and
many more. As per the Jane Pilcher within many cultures such as Chisunga and Hausa of Africa
it has been the puberty that begins the adulthood not the age within years as many sociologists
could argue about the western culture's age mark as they can talk about eighteen years old and
seventeen years old that can implicit assumptions that can highlight the age at which an
individual can be considered as an adult, also the middle-aged as well as old age. This can be
described by the cultures about the measurement of age (Tolstoy, 2018).
Childhood social construction

In modern Britain society the construction of the childhood socially is that to pick up a high
degree of separation between the spheres of adulthood and childhood.
Details are mention below
There are some places where child were supposed to go with trusted adults and children would
be relatively shelter from the life of the adult.
There are various laws that prevents children to doing as compare to the adults,as they were
supposed to that tasks.
There are some products for the children that adults are not supposed to be play with me .
Mention above all the differences among the children and adults have nothing related with the
biological differences as children need special places only for them, they need special laws for
their protection as well as need particular toys to play with them. They as a society have
described that what are needed for the children as they want to construct childhood as very
contrary to adulthood (Gray. and MacBlain, 2015).
Digital technology in childhood
The impact of technology on children are considers as complicated both in the sense of benefits
and costs. With the help of the new technology that can b led through the internet are responsible
for changing the shape of thinking. Within the West the generation of children also have the
crucial development differences as compare to the children that can grew up with the television,
smartphones ans video games. As today's children are more confident as well as more assertive.
Also, they are involved within the sexual relationship within younger ages. They also posses
some vastly improved spatial intelligence as compare to the earlier generations. The engagement
of the media environment has changed more dramatically. They are responsible for the changes
in children as they impact both the negative and positive impacts. Socializing through Social
media can enhances the self-esteem and playing video games as well as exposure to the violent
television leads to the ADHD kind of behavior or aggressive behavior (Alanen, Brooke. and
Mayall. eds., 2015).
Today's sociality in children
In today's world social development is considered as an ability that enables children for more
opportunities to practice as well as learn speech as well as language skills. It is considered as a
positive cycle in today's world as due to communications skills to improve a child can be better

relate the things as well as react the people all around them. It can build self-esteem as well as
resolve the conflicts (Tolstoy, 2018).
HEALTH AND Well BEING
These are the elements that are crucial to enhance or able to maintain the performance of the
staff members, job satisfaction,productivity and engagement in the work environment.
Health and well-being is considered as the absence regarding the physical illness, mental
diseases as well as mental distress, It is known as the negative definition regarding health. Also,
the health and well-being is described as the maintenance and achievement of the mental stability
and physical fitness as it is considered as the positive definition. It is a result of the combination
regarding social, physical intellectual as well as emotional factors. It is considered as the Holistic
definition regarding well- being (Musselwhite, Holland. and Walker, 2015).
Health and well- being is a process of becoming more aware as well as about the
learning to make the longer and healthy life. It is considered as the identification regarding deep
interconnections between the psychological ,spiritual, social ,physiological needs that are crucial
for the human beings to enjoy their higher level of the functioning. It is bout the make proactive
approaches and make good choices that aids to support emotional, physical and social -
functioning by highlighting the fostering sense and positive health of the general well-being.
Social construction of Health and well- being
Illness is enhancing day by fay as public experiences that can be shared on then internet. Social
constructivism can hold the groups and individuals produces their own conceptions regarding
knowledge as it consider as the product of the social dynamics. For the profession of the medical
profession ,a disease can be considered as biological condition ,unchanging and universal. There
is also difference between the medical notion regarding diseases as well as construction
regarding the illness's concepts. Also, social constructionist defines the illness that falls under
the social meaning of that specified condition (Fattore. and Agostoni, 2016).
Technology in Health and well-being
The enhancing demands of the fitness tracking technology within past years has meant public
more conscious about the health. Such as enhancing the availability of the seniors on the
smartwatches are capable of giving feedback about the health conditions within our bodies. It
indicates that more number of people are aware about their health conditions and wants to
improve it.

Low blood pressures can be measured by the clinically approved wireless monitor of the blood
pressure that is also being super easy to utilize. By the help of this wireless device it can easily
measure ,share and record blood pressure data wit the doctor and family via app.
With the help of the technology , various medical websites available more number of people are
turning to the internet to self diagnosed their illness before going to the doctor. Also there are
thousands of people who died because of the prescribed errors of the medication. As in today's
world people can wear specified medical bracelets with individual barcodes to assist the hospital
staff's track about the medical dosage that able to reduces the errors. Here internet also plays a
crucial role while described the prescribed errors because there are various websites that tells
about the drugs and their usages (Musselwhite, Holland. and Walker, 2015).
How well-being is useful for the public health
It can integrates the physical health ad mental health that resulting within more holistic
framework to the diseases prevention as well as health promotion. Well being is also associated
with the various risk of diseases,injury and illness which is better for the immune functioning
and enhanced longevity (Minvielle, 2015).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it had been concluded that Childhood is known as the time space between
the birth of the child and adulthood. The impact of technology on childhood is that they impacted
in negative and positive both way. Furthermore, Health and well- being is approaches and make
good choices make proactive in fostering sense and positive health. It also focused on the
technological advancement such as smartphones to track the fitness of the body.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Alanen, L., Brooker, E. and Mayall, B. eds., 2015. Childhood with Bourdieu. Springer.
Fattore, G. and Agostoni, C., 2016. Health, wellbeing and social sciences. Critical reviews in
food science and nutrition.56(12).pp.1960-1963.
Gray, C. and MacBlain, S., 2015. Learning theories in childhood. Sage.
Minvielle, E., 2015. System for Tracking and Optimizing Health Indices. U.S. Patent Application
14/508.913.
Musselwhite, C., Holland, C. and Walker, I., 2015. The role of transport and mobility in the
health of older people.
Tolstoy, L., 2018. Childhood, boyhood, youth. Alma Books.