Infanccy and Early Childhood
Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth–Age 5)
“Beginning with the first years of life, the early influences of the biological and social clocks, how children develop, and how they gain confidence and curiosity are explored” (Learner.org ). John Kotre, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “believes that family stories are very important because these stories combine to tell us who we are as a family, what we think about nature, about life, and working together as a family”. When we put these stories together they create a kind of meaning in which we live our life, it is like a social womb in which our children are nourished (Learner, 2011). Children will hear stories of life and death, these stories will tell us who we are as on individual. In the first week of a child’s life you can tell his/her temperament, but not about the story, meaning how he/she is going to turn out. The building blocks of temperament can last throughout a lifetime. Some aspect of a baby temperament are genetically determine, at birth some babies may appear content and easy going, while others are restless and never seem to get comfortable, studies have showed that qualities like these are the building blocks of temperament. As stated in the video, humans are governed by three categories of clocks: the social clock, the psychological clock, and the biological clock. The social clock which is society’s way of telling us what society expects of us and when while today’s social clock tells us our children should be in school. In your twenties you should get a job and get married, in your seventies it is the time for retirement, and the middle age signifies that we should be at our career peak and be enjoying our grandchildren. These are the setting of the social clock, but the setting changes with the flow of history (Learner, 2011). According to the video, “all human beings share the same time table for growth; its part of our biological clock/ genetic makeup”. As our children
“Beginning with the first years of life, the early influences of the biological and social clocks, how children develop, and how they gain confidence and curiosity are explored” (Learner.org ). John Kotre, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “believes that family stories are very important because these stories combine to tell us who we are as a family, what we think about nature, about life, and working together as a family”. When we put these stories together they create a kind of meaning in which we live our life, it is like a social womb in which our children are nourished (Learner, 2011). Children will hear stories of life and death, these stories will tell us who we are as on individual. In the first week of a child’s life you can tell his/her temperament, but not about the story, meaning how he/she is going to turn out. The building blocks of temperament can last throughout a lifetime. Some aspect of a baby temperament are genetically determine, at birth some babies may appear content and easy going, while others are restless and never seem to get comfortable, studies have showed that qualities like these are the building blocks of temperament. As stated in the video, humans are governed by three categories of clocks: the social clock, the psychological clock, and the biological clock. The social clock which is society’s way of telling us what society expects of us and when while today’s social clock tells us our children should be in school. In your twenties you should get a job and get married, in your seventies it is the time for retirement, and the middle age signifies that we should be at our career peak and be enjoying our grandchildren. These are the setting of the social clock, but the setting changes with the flow of history (Learner, 2011). According to the video, “all human beings share the same time table for growth; its part of our biological clock/ genetic makeup”. As our children