I will also discuss what life story work is and how life story work can be beneficial in developing a child’s understanding a sense of self. The importance life experiences have on a child’s attachments and what is meant by attachments and how they form and vary. The importance of the care workers role in all of these points will also be discussed and how they can support children to develop a sense of self. It’s important to understand what is meant by identity. Identity can be seen superficially as a name or a date of birth of an individual, a sense of formally providing evidence of who you are.
Physical development is vital to being valuable parents, teachers, and caregivers. Motor development is the child’s ability to move and have control over their body parts. This depends on the maturation of the brain, and how it receives input from the sensory system, if the nervous
Moreover, a child’s biological and socially influenced characteristics like habits, temperaments, physical characteristics and capabilities influence the child’s behavior as well as those people who are around the child. At this level a child’s relationships have impact in two directions. Both impact on the child from relationships and impact on relationships as a result of the child’s behavior. For Example: A child who has a difficult temperament may cause friction between parents and also with other peers and teachers. It is important that the child has a sound and functional microsystem.
However it is believed that the environment the child grows up in is more important! The social aspects of development . Things that make up our world, our experiences, surroundings, what we eat, we hear, how others treat us, the type of people we interact with. Nature effects on Adolescence. Nature as well as Nurture may both possibly affect the physical, Intellectual, emotional and social development.
Bronfenbrenner imagined the immediate environment to have structures such as family, school, neighborhood, peer group, childcare, and is the immediate environment in which a person is operating. The interaction of these structures with the child affects their growth, whereby an encouraging and nurturing environment enhances better growth while a strenuous environment negatively affects growth. Within the immediate environment the child also plays a significant part where their interactions with others in the systems determine their reactions to the child. The settings within, which the individual directly interacts and with the most immediate and direct impact on a child's biological and psychological development. The Microsystems is described as the closest layer to the child and contain the structures with which the child has direct contact.
If both parents have the gene then there is a one in four chance that the child will be born with it. People that have cystic fibrosis could have many factors that affect them physically, intellectual, emotionally and socially. People with this condition could have problems absorbing nourishment from foods and may also have respiratory and chest infections. This could affect their every day life and could prevent them from joining in sports at school for example. Cystic fibrosis can have many effects of an individual’s life as they are expected to have a shorter life expectancy compared to people without the condition.
Illicit use of these drugs can lead to low birth weight, breathing difficulties, death, and of course the possibility of the baby being born addicted to the drug. Drug addictions in infants present themselves as irritability, fevers, and piercing cries. More specifically, cocaine use during pregnancy can cause physical deformities in the child’s eyes, bones, genitals, urinary tract, kidneys and heart and acute growth retardation. They may also experience seizures and hemorrhages. While many people believe that marijuana may not be as harmful as these other drugs, it can still affect the infant in a few ways.
To understand how children’s behaviour can be influenced by environmental context or situation, and to be able to explain individual differences. This understanding can provide professionals with an understanding of human growth to explain why people behave as they do, to better understand their situation and to guide their practice. There are many influences that can shape a developing child and the outcome for an individual throughout and beyond their lives. Some are within the child,
Multiple birth babies are at increased risk of low birth weight because they are often pre mature. Moreover, excessive stress and victim of domestic violence or other abuse also may increase the risk of low birth weight. Babies who have low birth weight are more likely to have health problems than babies born normally. Many of the premature and low birth weight babies lack enough body fat to uphold a normal body temperature, and have medical problems. Some of the medical problems that infants with low birth weight have are that they have the risk of developing breath problems such as the respiration distress syndrome.
The role of both genetic and environmental influences has a large part in the physical, psychosocial and cognition development of infants. Even an infant’s temperament can easily be determined by those same influences. Their temperament can also affect the manner in which they proceed through Piaget’s six sensorimotor substages. Since the moment a baby is conceived, both the genes from the mother and father, plus the environmental factors will play a role on an infant’s physical development. Genes can determine an infant’s eye color, skin tone, body size and health condition, such as, heart disease passed on from a parent.