...Childbirth is something that happens across the world, we repopulate the earth so when we pass away, the next generation can keep humanity alive and prevent the world from becoming vacant. In the western world the media portrays women who are going through childbirth as this treacherous and “most painful” thing that’s ever happened to them, but is that really how it is? Two scientists wanted to put the question “how painful is childbirth really” to the test. They looked cross culturally, different education levels, age and if it is the woman’s first child or not. The participants were taken from those who gave birth in the major cities of Israel. The participants of this study were put into different subcategories. There were a total of 83 women, 30 of which were born in either the United States, or Europe. 53 of the participants were born somewhere in the Middle East for example Asia, or North America. The study never mentioned how long they lived in these other countries before living in Israel and being a part of the study, all that matters in this aspect is where the mother was born. They also separated those participants into how old they were (those born in the western area were the oldest), what level of education and if...
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...holistic development of the young child. Explain how and why children’s play changes over the first six years of life. Include examples to support your explanation. To begin this essay, I have asked myself ‘what is play?’ The Oxford English Dictionary cites many definitions for the word ‘play’. One can watch a play, play truant, play up, play football, play cards or play an instrument. Child development theorists have published a great many works on play and its impact on child development. Hutt et al (1989) (as quoted in Wood & Attfield (2005)) argued that play is “a jumbo category that encompasses a multiplicity of activities, some of which are conducive to learning, but many of which are not.” Wood & Attfield (2005) wrote that “play involves a wide range of behaviours, have multiple meanings for both children and adults and can be regarded as serious or trivial. It can be highly motivated or just plain messing about”. Moyles (2005) believed play to be “… a process which, in itself, will subsume a range of behaviours, motivations, opportunities, practices, skills and understandings …” For the purposes of this essay, I am focussing on the enjoyable activities which children undertake freely and spontaneously, alone or with their peers which brings pleasure, fulfilment and development. I will endeavour to explain how play is important to the holistic development of the young child and also how and why play changes during the first six years of his/her life. So what...
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...Child care is the nurturing of a child provided by a parent or by an organization such as daycare. Child caring is different in all cultures, how a child might be brought up in North America maybe completely different in the Middle East. Everyone has different views on how a child should be raised which leads to many controversial social and political issues (Encyclopedia). Child care is also provided through early childhood education offered by nursery schools, and kindergarten programs. Child care has developed over the years and if it wasn't for some the policies that we have now women would not have the independence that they have now. The question is are these policies really enough for families to raise there children where everything...
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...For young children with disabilities, it is important for the proper identification, individualized program planning, and related support to be implemented. This process is crucial to the success of any child with a disability. Families must be included in this process (Yell, 2012). Teachers should find other ways to support families, as well. Children with hearing and vision impairments can be first observed in the sensorimotor stage of development. Children with vision impairment are commonly observed failing to reach for an object. Hooper and Umansky (2014) suggest that reaching for or obtaining an object that makes sound does not occur until the second year for children with vision impairments (Hooper and Umansky, 2014). For children...
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...Elsesser 5/16/2014 Amy Tardy 2 Children are our future, and as our future we want our world to be free of sicknesses and diseases, well as much as we like the idea it is not going to happen. We have children who are suffering from life- threatening illnesses who do not have a chance to be a kid or to grow up with the memories of childhood. We try all we can as parents and family to keep our children safe we just can not perdict a child getting a life threating illness, we do all we can to make our child happy while going through a scary ordeal. If we can make one dream come true for a sick child for one day of forgetting they are staring down a life threatening illness and make that child laugh wouldn't giving that child a wish come true be amazing? The social program I am creating is a program to help a child who is terminally ill or has a life threatening illness called “Dreams Come True.” A dream come True program would for one day grant sa wish one child makes come true. To make this happen I would need to set up the program, find donors and volunteers, financing to help the wishes come true. Advances in medicine and modern technonogy have increased the survival rate in children with chronic illness, including illnessess that were considered fatal (Cohen,1995).Witnessing the child's pain and fear, combined with the constant fear of death makes it difficult for the family to function normally ...
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...the government such as The Sure Start Programme, The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Children’s Centres, maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools. All of these services are free, as the child right to education. These services provide a wide range of education in different subjects. Nursery classes in lily’s primary school aims are to support and educate children by giving them the early education they need in order to be ready for primary school. Children are in small groups with the same age group as themselves; therefore they would build a relationship with other children as well as mix with others who have a different background/culture and beliefs. They usually start at 9am -11:30am or 1pm-3pm. Most nurseries have extended provisions to work with families such as after school clubs, breakfast clubs and even holiday clubs. Private provision: These services work independently and are profits making as they are funded through the fees. These services are not funded by the government such as private nurseries, schools and day nurseries. They provide care and early year’s education to children. Alice private day nursery aims are to support children by giving them a friendly yet safe environment to plan and learn; this way a child can communicate with other children of different cultures and beliefs. The opening hours helps parents as they can...
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...The approach I took here was to observe children as they progressed through a particular school system. Looking for some correlation or trends and some educational building as it relates to transitioning from grade to grade. In this observation I observed a teacher I already had contact with. She taught my daughter in first grade, and then later on she left teaching for administration position and has returned this year as a kindergarten teacher. I think this speaks about her passion for being in the classroom. She voluntarily left a higher paying taking the first position available which was not her specialty. Overall I was impressed with her teaching style and her methods of communicating with her students. The first thing I observed was the room layout. I believe the room layout plays a very important role in early childhood education. Some rooms can be distracting with too much information or too vacant and not aiding in the education process. What I saw here was not what I expected to see but I think it is efficient. There were no desks other than the teachers. The children sat at tables laid out in a single tiered “U” shape facing the front chalk board as you might see in a college setting, but not a flattened “U”. It was a true “U”. I like this arrangement because it focuses the student’s attention on the center of the room. Another advantage is that no one is distracted by the person sitting in front of them which is especially important with this age group because...
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...Fraser I construct lessons to fit the needs of each child individually by first assessing what the child knows and what level the child is on. This is implemented in the beginning of the year when children are assessed using a test called the ESI-R. The test consist of the basics a child who is between the age of three and four years of age. One part of the test consists of children repeating what the teacher says. For example, the teacher will say 123 and the child has to repeat 123. Another part of the test is the use of basic fine motor. The child has to stack six blocks like a tower without them falling. There is about four parts to the test. If a child isn’t ready they receive a second chance a little later during the school year. If they fail twice, then the teacher has to fill out a form and is then sent to the board of education to determine if the child needs to be referred. After a couple of months of school as the children play in their centers I go around asking them basic questions in reference to what their doing. For example if a child is already counting from one to ten, then if the child is playing with blocks I’ll say “wow how many blocks do you have and the child will be encouraged to count and I may add more to see if the child can count pass ten and eventually to twenty. If there’s a specific child who’s not yet counting then I find creative ways to increase his/her counting ability. I’ll have the child help me with lunch in which they can help pass and count...
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...1.1. Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services. - Every child is an individual and has their own needs. When planning an activity practitioners should think about age and abilities. - Some children have individual needs such as sensory impairments - Family and carers needs should be coincided during planning - Always make sure it is known why the environment has been chosen and the activities the children will be taking part in - Safeguarding children is essential and duty of care is a legal obligation so safety of the children should be well thought about when planning - When planning an activity clear aims and objectives should be set out - There should be clear reporting responsibilities in a setting in order to maintain health and safety When planning an indoor or outdoor activity the factors that should be taken into consideration are hazards with in the environment. To ensure the health and safety of the children, risk assessment should be carried out. Advanced notice of the trip should be given out in letter form where parents will be notified of details regarding the trip. Important information should be shared with the setting such as medical needs of the children. Parents should give consent for their child to take part in the indoor or outdoor activities by providing a signature at the end of the letter. The letter should also contain useful information about packed lunches or...
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...| | | | | | “The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.” by Maria Montessori Brooke Robledo Benita Flores Early Childhood [ 2 March 2013 ] Maria Montessori Born in Chiaravalle in the Province of Ancona in 1870, Maria Montessori was the first woman to practice medicine in Italy, having graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Rome in 1896. As a physician, Dr, Montessori was in touch with young children and became profoundly interested in their development. Through careful and exhaustive scrutiny, she realized that children construct their own personalities as they interact with their environment. In addition, she observed the manner in which they learned as they spontaneously chose and worked with the auto didactic materials she provided. Montessori approach to education stemmed from a solid grounding in biology, psychiatry and anthropology. She studied children of all races and cultures in many countries around the world, soon seeing the university of the laws of human development played out before her. She believed that children should not be treated as receptors of knowledge from the teacher, but instead should be leaders of their own learning. Her philosophy has been embraced in schools around the world. She is best known for the development of the new educational philosophy that would become a school system. She continued her observations throughout her life, widening...
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...done saying this sentence a young child’s parents will be dead. Death of a parent cause short and long term effects behavioral and psycologically. The first thing a child does is learning how to cope without the parent. Mourning is the best way to adapt. A child has difficulty to cope with the parent’s death due to them not knowing how to mourn or understand death at a young age. Failure to do has an effect on growth and adjustment. The most difficult mourning process for a child is detaching the love from the deceased parent. There use to looking up at that parent to do things for them since there so young. When a child sees a parent dies it causes traumatic stress. It effects them behavioral and psychologically. The child relives the death of the parent all through out there life. When a parent is dying it is best for the child to be removed. When a child is removed it’s least likely for them to suffer from stress and the emotional attachment with the death of the parent. Almost all kids that loose a parent are hyperactivity. Hyperactivity comes from the children wanting opposite of death. When we explain death to a child you usually say mom and daddy are sleeping for a long time and not going to wake up. So the child takes it as if I sleep I’m not going to wake up so this causes an increase in hyperactivity so the child does not feel like they’re going to die. The best way for this not to happen is actually to explain death. But in some cases it shows that some children...
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...adaptive behaviour Each week a child in each class will be rewarded with Star Of The Week in the school assembly, due to good work ethic or something that has made them stand out in a good way. This may encourage other children to try harder in order to get recognition from the whole school. When children create a good piece of work, they get rewarded with a merit sticker which they put on their merit chart. When the merit chart is complete, they get rewarded with a merit certificate, starting at bronze, then silver, to gold. When they reach gold they get rewarded with a prize. Modelling As children are young, they learn new vocabulary every day. Therefore teachers will speak kindly and use appropriate language as they’re aware children may imitate their behaviour, so they need to set good examples to the children. Teachers, as well as classroom assistants will use good manners towards each other and the children. This allows the children to see what is write and respectful. They would show this by saying please and thank you. When teachers set a physical task for the pupils, they may demonstrate how to complete the task first so they children have an idea on how to do it. Social perception If a child isn’t acting themselves and isolating themselves from their peers, the teacher may realise that something isn’t right. This may be because of various problems such as bullying, however the child may hide this from the teacher. Due to the child protection policy as well as the...
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...socialisation-link to the social embryonic stage of the absorbent mind.(10) | |Describe the teacher's initial approach with new children.(10) | |Explain the change in the teacher's role as each child begins to concentrate and focus on activities,and the impact this has on the child's growing | |normalisation.(20) | |Show an understanding of why the child might regress.(5) | | | My assignment will reveal what normalisation is in line with deviations. I will discuss the environmental factors that support favourable normalisation and its link to socialisation. In addition,I will also discuss the role of the teacher and approach to children with a view of how the unfavourable environment may result in child regression. “Normalization comes through concentration on a piece of work” (Montessori,2007a,p.206).Montessori's main...
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...As a nurse who has always taken care of adult patients and has not yet experienced mother-hood, appropriately assessing and treating pediatric patients has become very challenging for me. I have lived with my 3-year-old nephew for a little over a year now and I am gaining first- hand insight on the developmental milestones he has reached specifically by age. One key point Duderstadt (2014, p.24) mentions that I believe all healthcare providers should remember while assessing pediatric patients is that “each child achieves developmental milestones at his or her own pace, although the sequence of developmental milestones is generally incremental and stepwise in all children.” There is no doubt that I will face a parent that is concerned their...
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...The Hurt Man It is the late summer of 1888, and the town of Port William is a dangerous place for a child to be wandering around. Yet that is exactly what five-year-old Mat Feltner does. Danger lurks behind every corner, horses in the road, the occasional droves of animals, and plenty of anger fuelled fistfights inside the saloons or in the street. Death is something Mat Feltner is aware of, something most boys his age nowadays, thankfully, are not. He knows his three siblings are buried in the town’s graveyard. The short story “The Hurt Man” by Wendell Berry revolves around the themes death and grief, and revolves around how Mat comes to not only be aware of the two things, but to comprehend them. The short story takes place in the town of Port William and the year is 1888, as previously mentioned. It is a small town, built along a road that used to be no more than a buffalo trace. In one end of the town is a school, in the other a graveyard. There are a couple of saloons, a church, a blacksmith, a bank, a hotel and some stores, and a dozen miles by river to the nearest courthouse. The characteristics such as the saloons, the fact that the city’s road used to be a buffalo trace, and the lack of law, as well as the names of the characters, point towards the town of Port William being an American frontier town. Anger rules the town and violence is at a high rate, especially in this particular town because there is no one to uphold the law. “And in Port William, a dozen...
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