Children's Holistic Development From Birth To 19 Years Of Age

Children's Holistic Development
From Birth To 19 Years Of Age

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Child development refers to overall changes occur in human body in biological,
psychological and emotional context between the duration of birth and conclusion of
adolescence. It includes the criterion of developing in sequence of physical, language, thought
and emotional changes which takes place in an individual during the period from birth to
adulthood (Wagner and Heinrich-Weltzien, 2017). Meanwhile, it consist progress of child in
regards to their dependency on their parents or guardians in order to increase the ability of
independence. However, it is necessary to provide support to kids in terms of their development
as it will get influenced through genetic factors as well as events during prenatal life. It is
observed that child development also get affected by environment factors along with influencing
their learning ability. In context of this assignment, it is based on holistic development of
children from birth to 19 years of age through analysing various relevant elements. It will focus
on key development areas such as physical, social, emotional, intellectual, language and moral.
This project will also includes development in different age groups like birth to 1 year old, 2-3
years old, 4-6 years old, 7-9 years old, 10-12 years old, 13-15 years old and 16-19 years old.
MAIN BODY
Child development can be defined as physical, biological psychological and emotional
changes occurs which are helpful to enhance their abilities of developing factor of independence.
It includes the physical development like weight, height and developing bones & muscles which
influence by genetically inherited characteristics which are transmitted from parents to their kids.
Meanwhile, several stages of child development is given below.
Birth to 1 year old – After birth, baby started respond to their nearby world and remain
calm by loud voice of parents. It includes the stage when a child focus on face of other people
and their tiny fingers begin to curl around their parent's hand or close into fists. However, it
consist the the development during 2 months of a kid when they have started to hold their head
before learning about the way of walking (Spencer-Smith and et. al., 2018). Babies also tries to
fuss, cry or squeal to grab attention and found new strength to pull up their arms when lying on
belly. The toddler start crawling and walking by analysing new freedom.
 Physical development: At this stage, several physical changes occurs regarding
development such as they lies on back with head to one side, primitive reflexes and head
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