A 3-month-old baby can be played with using a flashlight and puppets for visual stimulus. Play with a baby during the first formative months with tips from a licensed psychotherapist in this free video on child development.
Expert: Dr. Donna Williams, Ph.D.
Contact: www.parentguide.com
Bio: Dr. Donna Williams is a licensed psychotherapist with a Ph. D. in early childhood education and development.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Duration : 0:2:10
How might school impact children’s metacognitive knowledge acquisition and performance on memory tasks? Share an example (either that you’ve experienced, or that a child that you know well has experienced) of an instance where you had to remember something, and the strategy that you used. Do you think that this kind of knowledge is universal? Who might NOT use memory strategies?
I don’t think that what’s taught in school helps directly with cognition, but it does help you to memorize and apply facts. If it weren’t for having to learn and stuff, we generally would be unable to apply whatever knowledge we acquire through our daily lives. Memory is subconscious, so we don’t exactly know how or why we remember, but most of the things we’re taught, especially if we hear them on a daily basis, never fully escape our minds.
Brain expert Dr. Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington, talks about the innate learning ability of infants and children. Internationally recognized for her research on early language and brain development, Dr. Kuhl focuses on language and social interaction in the learning process.
Duration : 0:58:38
The best ways to enhance development in children with mental retardation is to expose them to all sorts of tactile experiences along with sensory experiences.
The senses will give the child input from you and the world.
It’s best to work on the same program the school is working with.
And most of all , love your children and have fun with them.
Like Aristotle, President Obama Outlines New Steps to Prepare Children for College and Careers President Obama outlines new steps to better prepare Americas children for college and the workplace at a meeting with the National Governors Association. The President is calling for a redesigned Elementary and Secondary Education Act that includes a comprehensive, new vision to help states successfully transition to and implement college- and career-ready standards by improving teacher preparation and development, upgrading classroom instruction, and supporting high-quality assessments.
Duration : 0:24:56
Including: Erickson’s stage, issues of attachment, and other info that is relevant.
Erickson was a Freudian. I am not. So I will leave him to the Freudians.
Socioemotional issues affecting a child’s development:
1. The need to belong, to feel important and significant to important others (parents, siblings), and the attempts to belong and their results (as encouragement or discouragement) in terms of: Affection, Attention, Approval, Control, Fairness, Help. To Belong is every person’s "Master Mission" in life.
2. Inferiority feelings (natural and universal to young children) and resulting efforts to compensate through seeking equality or superiority in some field.
3. The Problem. This is the one problem a child cannot solve AS A CHILD. So it is seen as the most important thing to resolves in one’s life. So it is passed on to the adult as the ultimate goal (called the Fictional Final Goal) and from then on all the person’s activities circle around this goal. (Also called one’s "Mistaken Mission" in life.)
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i need to meet the childrens individual needs
understanding of the stages of emotional development
any help greatley appreciated
Listen and react to the children’s needs. Some children need more reassurance than others. All need it sometimes. Watch for positive actions and use many positive words with the children. Also let them know that it is OK to make mistakes sometimes and that their feelings are OK to have. Even anger or sadness. It is OK to cry.
Writing about this topic and need help with starting it off. Any suggestions or answers will be gladly appreciated. New at teaching so not yet familiar with answering this question off the top of my head.
You could:
–take it age by age and describe it that way
–look at different theories of development
–write about it in terms of your own observations in light of what you know about development
–look at how different things develop over time (motor skills, language, etc.)
Does anyone know how sand, water, clay, dough and other natural materials or cooking help children’s sensory and intellectual development?
Exploratory activities are hands on: children feel, smell, taste, see, and hear. The more the children use their senses, the more they develop. Also, exploring is problem-solving. Children have to think about what they are doing, and come to conclusions on their own, which teaches them how to concentrate, think, and problem-solve, all things necessary for cognitive development.
are parents important to their children? how about gay parents? does having gay parents affect the growth of children?
Being Gay or Straight doesn’t affect a child at all. We all bleed the same.
One of my best friends is gay, and it doesn’t make him any less of a parent. He is FANTASTIC with my kids, and my kids adore him and his partner.
Depends on the parent, to how important they are to a child. Some children are better off with no parents, than to be with the parents they have.