Criteria: (On top of those set out by the School)
1. Goal
This project’s aim is to analyse and discuss the cause and effects of bringing up a child by the parents facing the unique task of raising kids in this modern and volatile period of transforming nature and increasingly technological savvy environment. While the research and theories attempts to strategies for a model to raise a child, this paper is analysing how it can be best interphase in a local family setting with other complimenting factors that can bring awareness for the parents to raise a child.
The lifespan development of a child begins with developmental milestones where prenatal, infancy, early, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood and late adulthood with cognitive developments from thinking, language and value settings develop.
2. Theories relating to child development
As theorised by Piaget, cognitive development was a progressive reorganisation of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience, children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment. (Wikipedia, Internet), which explains the child’s development is very much dependant on nature and nurture and the environment.
There are number of different theorists associated with child development. Erik Erikson built upon Sigmund Freud’s work, he identified eight separate stages across and he believed each stage which has both positive and negative outcome, we face a crisis that needs to be resolved for emotional and social development. The outcome of the stage is determined by our environment, and the care giving strategies or experiences to which we are exposed. John Bowlby identified four phases of attachment development, where a child with variety of behaviours which seeks proximity which promotes parents and