Please find a article online that provides advice on prenatal or child development. The article may be drawn from media or from a journal article. For your reference I have posted one on OpenLab.
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Child Psychology Spring 2014
Discovering Child Development
Here is my post on Attachment Parenting Time Cover:
The article that I chose is from Time Health and Family magazine. The name of the article is Hand Gestures could make kids smarter. The article says that using hand gestures could help children to learn. I would agree that hand gesture has positive effect on child development by helping them learning the new things.
Furthermore as supporting fact of the statement would be conversation made between me and my mother and asking her a question. The question was if hand gesture of certain object helps me to indentify that objet by showing the same hand motion when the object was presented to me. She gave positive answer that it did.
The article is from Parenting.com. Its about the early child development on social learning issue. I am agree with the author’s words, because it clearly states the thoughts and behaviors of child’s ages by ages, and briefly explain the methods that parents should do , and not do, which i believe that give a clear guides for the new parents.
In addition, the author suggests that parents should become friends with the child, instead of stand in a superior level of child-parents relationship, i believe that will best build up a good relationship with the child. Moreover, author states the ways of treating child’s faults, which allows children to understand both situation of being bad and good. i fund this article is very impressive. therefore, i would like to share this to everybody.
http://www.parenting.com/article/making-friends-21334848
My article deals with gender identity in children in terms of clothing…pink versus blue and
if boys should wear dresses (as they did in the 1800′s). I agree with the author that gender
identity lays with the parents and the generation, but I do not think that clothes define the
masculinity or femininity of young children as they do not solidify their gender until about
the age of 6.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/
I agree with the fact that colors do not decide the gender of the child but now it has become an in thing to do that and also every thing is so commercialized that people think colors determine our identity as to who we are.
This is more of an informational website from the World Bank about childhood development and malnutrition. It basically states things that seem relatively obvious, like feeding children is important. But it does elaborate and add details that I did not previously know about the relationship between development and malnutrition.
I agree with almost every point they make and particularly appreciate the “well…duh” statements like “Undernutrition and the socioeconomic context in which it occurs appear to be related. ” The thing I didn’t like was that they reference numerous “studies” without citing them, making it difficult to verify almost everything they say.
I also didn’t like (but was not surprised) by the introductory paragraph that frames the entire page in terms of how malnutrition in children can “undermine future work productivity.” As if quality of life is an afterthought. But then again…it’s the World Bank.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTCY/EXTECD/0,,contentMDK:20207804~menuPK:528430~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:344939,00.html
I go this article from ahaparenting.com. The articles name is Ten tips to become a brilliant listener with your child. I agree with the article because for child development, parents should be able to listen to their child instead of lecturing the child, being upset/angry at them for something they are trying to talk to the parent about. The child being able to open up to the parent helps with child development because as the child opens up at a young age and feels comfortable talking about anything with their parents, they will be most likely be able to say out of trouble in the future and wont have to hide things from the parent which will eventually cause the child to do harm to themselves or hurt others around them. The child having someone they can trust get advice and talk to betters their future, parents learning this advice will be helpful to themselves and to the child.
http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/communication/brilliant-listener
I believe strongly in being a good listener because I am a mother of an 8yr old girl who has all these ideas and thoughts she wants to share. I like this article Sumiya chose cause it does determine how much attention we get when we are kids which makes us who we are in as adults.
Infants and their mothers have a strong bond. Mothers often know how their baby is feeling and what they need based on a certain reaction, cry or movement. Based on this article and research infants now feel empathy towards their care takers. An experiment was done where mothers and their infants would be separated and the mothers would undergo a some what stressful situation when the mothers would be reunited with their infant the stress levels would be measured and the observers would determine if the level of stress the mother feels is transferred to the baby. The study shows that parents that experienced higher level of stress their baby would react in the same way and vice versa. This information can now be used to have caretakers limit their amount of stress so that it won’t have a long lasting effect on the baby.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140203084616.htm
My article tells us about how less attention was been made on child development and how children were been perceived and not until the 20th century that theories were been created by world renowned phychologist such as Sigmund freud and the likes of Erik Erikson who talked about abnormal child behaviors and influences on child development. The article also talks about why it is important to study how children grow, learn and change.
I find it very interesting the series of stages stated by Sigmund Freud and how this stages play a role later in Adulthood
http://psychology.about.com/od/developmentalpsychology/a/childdevtheory.htm
This article on Science Daily Brought me to believe and both notice that a mothers reaction to her child or rather children has a lot to do with the emotional energy that is put out by the mother. I may not be a mother but watching my god daughter interact with her mom after reading this this article has proven to me there is indeed some truth in this article I’ve just read. when my god daughter was told no in an angry voice she frowned and walked away quickly . then she began to bang on the table with her hands. her mom then tried a different approach to make her stop banging on the table in a friendly voice she responded in a positive manner by walking to her mom and giving her a hug and a kiss. (CORRECT ARTICLE)
I was’nt aware of this fact till recently and it just shows how children are influenced by their parents and how they pick up on sensations and reactions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/us/push-for-preschool-becomes-a-bipartisan-cause-outside-washington.html?hpw&rref=us&_r=0
i apologize for this submission being late but I was experiencing technical difficulties with my blackboard account.
In any case, with the state of the union recently addressed I have found this article on the New York Times. The article discusses the importance of early childhood development as well as several states pushing the envelope on just how important it is for young children. I completely agree with the article because when children are at that stage, good fundamentals for learning are most important. If these programs have more funding it will only benefit the children. It will also benefit the economy by providing jobs for more teachers and caregivers and will also allow more parents to work instead of having to stay home with the child. I view it as a win all around.
my article tell us tips to how to take care of our children. In the article it tells you that baby can hear sound really early in there life. when the baby is still in you and reading books to the baby can help bonding with your baby sooner and teach the baby to the basic sounds that help them learn their foundation of their language.
https://www.earlymoments.com/Promoting-Literacy-and-a-Love-of-Reading/Preliteracy-Skills-Prenatal/Prenatal-Child-Development-Tips/
My article talks about how different toys and there different functions effect the different skills they acquire from playing them. Of course too much of anything is always bad no matter what. But it’s good to play your kids play with a variety of toys and even video games. They are thought provoking and help with the child’s motor skills. http://www.livestrong.com/article/233350-toys-their-impact-on-children-in-child-development/
My article talks about same-sex peer relationships and how children feel more comfortable being with kids their own sex rather than the opposite sex due to family upbringing or social norms even though they may be bullied or troubled by their own friends, kids like to stick on to whats familiar rather than make new friends in boys or vice versa.
My article is taken from the online cuny library website.