Factors Affecting Child Development

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How Severe, Ongoing Stress Can Affect a Child’s Brain
Growing in tough circumstances can create behavior and learning challenges in children.
Poverty, parent’s substance abuse, and neglect adversely affect a child’s development and levels
of stress. The effects can harm the brain of a child and cause death and different situations it can
transform to a different disease in adulthood (Lupien, 2006). It is crucial for teachers to educate
parents on the risks of toxic stress and help them figure out ways to manage. Some in the
medical community are adopting the “trauma-informed” care to identify and treat the effects of
poverty, abuse, neglect, and other root causes of toxic stress among children. In contrast with
toxic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from an extremely traumatic event
such as violence, sexual abuse, or physical abuse (Stirling, 2008). PTSD stems from toxic stress
and creates behavior problems. Therapy and education on toxic stress can help to reduce or
prevent its adverse effects. According to Luke 6:48, it is better to build a house on rocks so that
when there is a flood, the house does not shake since it built well.
Can Parents’ Tech Obsessions Contribute to a Child’s Bad Behavior?
When children whine or act out parents always claim that they are probably hungry, tired,
or bored (Radesky et al., 2016). Researchers believe that tantrums could be because of parents
spending too much time on their technological devices (McDaniel et al., 2018). Technology can
interfere with family time, and often, parents tend to ignore their children while on their devices.
It is difficult to juggle between the attention-grabbing machines and attention-seeking children
(McDaniel et al., 2016). Setting up boundaries on the use of technology during playtime or
mealtime can ease family tension. Children love attention, and the Bible says that they are a gift

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from the Lord. Quality time with their parents can help to reduce the tantrums that might be
caused by neglect.
Do Girls See Themselves as Less Smart Than Boys? A Study Says Yes
Gender stereotyping exists at a very young age; it has had an impact on the activities that
boys and girls are interested in, and eventually their education and career options. Gender
stereotypes demean women’s intellectual ability and discourage children and young women from
pursuing prestigious careers. There is a huge discussion about the lack of female characters in
children’s films and the sexualization of young girls. The idea of dominance, physical strength
and an amount of absence of vulnerability are the traditional views and todays views that equate
to manhood (Smith, 2011). It is important for young girls to be told that they are smart and
capable of doing jobs that require high-mental ability so that they do not shy away from them
when they are older. Female students in most schools today perform better than boys perform but
credit their performance to hard work instead of intellectual ability. Children aged six are more
prone to gender stereotypes than children aged five since they are more aware of the social world
around them. Teachers and parents should mind how they talk about intelligence to children and
pay attention to unconscious biases of genders. Women should present themselves to young girls
in a way that makes them view women as intelligent beings (Brannon, 2015).
New Report from SRCD on What PreK-3rd Means for Instruction
Instructional continuity should be made a priority both socially and academically to help
students develop a deeper understanding of previous knowledge. For example, when students
learn a mathematical concept only in one dimension, they can misapply it while solving other