play and a reliance on cars instead of walking – even to the corner store – don’t help matters. By preschool age‚ many kids are already lacking enough activity‚ which often translates into poor exercise habits later in life. Environment: If a child opens up the refrigerator or kitchen cabinets and is greeted by bags of chips‚ candy bars and microwave pizza‚ then that’s likely what they will eat. Similarly‚ if you keep your fridge stocked instead with tasty cut-up fruits and veggies (berries‚
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What is Child Abuse? Child abuse is when someone does something to you or your body that you don’t want them to do. There are several type of abuse:- Physical abuse - an adult deliberately hurts you by causing cuts‚ bruises‚ broken bones or other injuries. Physical abuse includes hitting‚ shaking‚ throwing‚ poisoning‚ burning‚ and slapping. Physical abuse involves physical harm or injury to the child. It may be the result of a deliberate attempt to hurt the child‚ but not always. It can also
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Wuchau District is one of the districts in Upper West Region which is predominantly rural. It has Wuchau as its capital with local communities around the capital. Because the district is predominantly rural‚ it is no less a fact to state that the place is predominantly traditional society and hence it is‚ and as would be expected‚ that a major proportion of its people rely on traditional mode of doing things. This explains why they uphold indigenous culture very high. Their mode of dressing‚
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Supporting children’s development Physical development There are two different ways of physical development‚ which are gross motor and fine motor. Gross motor means the whole body movements‚ and‚ fine motor skills are the way when children use their hands in co-ordination with the eyes and this allows children to perform very gentle procedures with their fingers‚ with the eyes persuading the detailed movements of the fingers. Grass motor: Cruise along using furniture as support Crawl on hands
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Written records that objectively describe children’s abilities and progress are the basis for planning curriculum‚ communicating with families‚ and tracking children’s development. Adapt these observation strategies to fit any group of young children. Anecdotal Records: Valuable Tools for Assessing Young Children’s Development Laura McFarland tifying possible developmental delays (Bredekamp & Rosegrant‚ Gather meaningful 1992; Cicchetti & Wagner‚ 1990; information about children. Dodge‚ Heroman
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part of development in children and young people. From an early age a child will experience some form of transition‚ and how well they deal with these changes as they are growing up will be depend on their stage of development‚ their confidence and the support and positive relationships they may have. The affects of transitions vary from child to child‚ so it is important to consider them on an individual basis. That said‚ it is possible to gain an idea of how a child’s social development may be
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Fostering Literacy Development in Young Children (783 words) In the modern society‚ words are everywhere. They are on signs‚ labels‚ in books‚ on computer screens‚ TVs‚ advertisements‚ and many other materials that exist within the immediate environment. It is because of this that young children are aware of words and letters even if they cannot yet comprehend the respective meanings. Young children can often recognize such environmental print as a stop sign‚ or certain labels‚ or product brand
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Assignment 1 1. Summarise the main development of a child from the age range 0 – 2 years‚ 3 – 5 years and 5 – 8 years. Development is the process of learning new skills in all areas of life. When we talk about child development we use the baseline of an ’average child ’. Most children will go through the same stages of development but not necessarily at the same age/time. Some children may miss a stage altogether e.g. Missing out crawling and going straight to walking. When thinking about
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Unit 024 Promote Child and Young Person Development Outcome 1 Be able to assess the development needs of children or young people and prepare a development plan Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1. Explain the factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development When assessing a child/young person we must be careful to take in to account confidentiality before carrying out any observations. Within my setting‚ we have an Welcome pack (aka Induction Pack) with lots of
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approach to child development study has been to emphasise “Normative Measure”. This is concerned with studying milestones or stages in a child’s development and show what most children can do at a particular age. In reality there is a wide range of normal development and this will be influenced by genetic‚ social‚ and cultural factors‚ so it is important to be aware that normative measures can only indicate general trends in children s development. Physical development By 6 months a child will:
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