Assignment | Human development stage

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD 1
Early childhood
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EARLY CHILDHOOD 2
Introduction
Early childhood is a human development stage which a child is aged three years. At this stage
children become more aware of their physical stages of growth children experience from age
three onwards. Except when a child has a disability of some kind, all children adapt to different
stages of development at a closer pace if not the same. However different cultures have unique
ways in which children are nurtured morally, emotionally, and intellectually. Parents are the first
and most important teachers to their children. From a young age the children learn their
language, environment, their culture and the world around them from the parent and close family
members. Family culture is the first thing that a child learns from an early age and it involves
various activities that the family engages in different occasions. Different families and cultures
have different ways in which they express themselves around the world. Family cultures helps in
developing a child’s way of life approach which as a result becomes a lifestyle which they can be
identified with even into adulthood. Cultural values include how people express themselves in
tangibles ways such dressing, language, music, food, furniture, and games. The culture also
includes customs that the family engages in and values that the family uses to express
themselves. These customs may include individual’s roles in the family, special days for
celebrations and holidays, ways of communication and how people care. The values include
beliefs or the reasons for doing various things such as attitude towards time and money,
definition of achievement, and understanding the nature of the world that we live.
Children imitate what their parents and the community does and therefore some habits do not
require serious one on one training but just observation. Actions such as greetings are mostly
imitated and a child only needs to understand the different ways of greeting different people
according to age or other relevant issues such as religion or socioeconomic status.

EARLY CHILDHOOD 3
The benefits of exploring diverse cultures and languages in childhood are to help the child
fully understand the diversity in people’s activities and lifestyle around the world. The child’s
needs to understand that people within the community or a certain geographical area, may share
the same resources but have diversity in culture. A good example is where you find a region
where there are different religions such as Christians and Muslins. These categories of people
worship on different ways, dress differently but the children attend the same schools and buy
goods from the same shopping center. They also benefit from the same government funds such
as infrastructure and healthcare. Exploring diverse cultures and languages in early childhood
helps the child to develop confidence and life skills required during their development. The child
is able to identify themselves with a certain lifestyles, community or region. Children also
develop characters which they can be identified with even with less communication. A person
from a different culture is able to identify another because of the presentation they have based on
culture. Culture also promotes creativity among the individuals in the community. Children learn
new games, and languages from those of different culture.
Early childhood education is the foundation of a child’s journey in academics. Every other
education level depends on the success of early childhood education because that is the level
which the child is introduced to quality knowledge. Children adapt to education in diverse
individual ways which need to be monitored, improved, and nurtured to create a strong
foundation. Young children learn quickly through activities and songs. Songs are easy to master
as they are sang repeatedly and therefore making the lessons more interesting and easy to
understand. In early childhood education teachers use songs to create interest in the lesson that
they want the children to be engaged in. The importance of the songs in early childhood