The California Early Childhood Mentor Program promotes and encourages relationship-based development of children and young people, pointing to such relationships as being key to increasing the quality and value of the environment of early childhood education (ECE). The program provides a combination of benefits designed to achieve a high quality …
Infant Development Month by Month
It is indeed a delight to watch your baby grow from a newborn to an infant; then to a toddler and preschooler. The most difficult among all these stages is infancy, where the parents are worried about little things. The first year of a baby’s life is full of tremendous …
Travel Encourages Learning, Develops Character for Children
When you think of someone taking a long, exciting trip somewhere, do you envision a single person, a couple, or a group of friends? Or do you picture a family? Most people, when considering the idea of a long trip, think of only adults. Long journeys have long been considered …
Team Games for Children
Team building games teach children the importance of co-operation, tolerance, concentration, the technique of working in a team by keeping aside their personal differences, being punctual and disciplined, obeying the orders of seniors, acquiring leadership skills, and sacrificing personal interests when the team is struggling to win. When children grow …
Brain Development in Early Childhood
Unlike the development of the rest of the body, brain development in the womb is not complete. Our brain is made of a number of cells, called neurons, that process the information it receives. A new-born baby possesses around 1 million neurons. Structurally speaking, the brain development is complete, however, …
Organizational Skills for Kids
Every child is different, which is why every child needs to be brought up in a different way. Some kid may need a pat on the back and some may need a gentle reprimand, but the purpose of the act should not be lost. Some children are more organized than …
Early Childhood Intervention
“Sydney was an 18-month-old baby. He was quite physically active and enjoyed spending time with his parents Rodney and Monica. However, like any average child of his age, he had still not mastered talking. He used to respond to sounds that surrounded him and responded with non-verbal tones. He could …
Psychosocial Theory of Development
The various stages of psychosocial development were actualized by Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994), in his ‘Psychosocial Theory of Development’, while attempting to understand the development of human beings on the basis of their social interaction. The fabric of human psyche was scrutinized by dissecting psychosocial development into 8 distinct …
Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development
Erik Erikson, the famous developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst, developed a theory known as the Psychosocial Stages of Development. In this theory on personality development of humans, Erikson put forward eight stages, that begin when a child is born and end when the person dies at an old age. In every …
Learning Styles for Children
We all know that children cannot learn at once, so teachers need to make study interesting in a way that the children will find playing and learning are the same. Learning styles or tests are different ways of learning methods, where all preferable approaches are used to make the learning …