Advantage of positive child-adult relationships
Great relationships between children and parents go along way in equipping them for future learning process. Children thrive in stable relationships, and this affects most spheres of their life. Among the benefits of a good relationship is; the child develops a sense of cooperation and good school performance. A sense of security that develops help children in the future incase they face risky situations. The children will generally be easier to teach and well mannered. The adults including the teachers will have an easier time developing and teaching newer and effective skills. The child will develop great life skills with other children (Eliot 58).
Brain research in a developing child
Studies have shown that at birth the brain does continue to grow and develop. The experiences that a child goes through as well as food they take have an effect on brain development. The genes that are passed on to the child by the parents also have an effect on maturity of the brain. The brain is has a plasticity aspect that helps it learn different new things. Synapses are over produced at birth and during child development they are maintained or destroyed. Good child experiences keeps brain synapses healthy and active (Eliot 65).
Child maltreatment and abuse
Children are defined by law to be under the age of 18 years. An act that includes child’s neglect causes the child sexual, physical, emotional or psychological harm is considered child maltreatment (Eliot 78).The lack of nurturing or proper upbringing of a child results in child abuse.
Teacher interactions with children
Active involvement by teachers towards the children has been shown to have great positive effects on a child’s development. In terms of verbal interactions, studies show that mixing social talk in between teaching lessons seeks to further advance child’s performance. When teachers tend to interact with children on a higher level the children tend to be highly have a high sense of security, spend less time in self discovery distractive behaviors and perform better (Howes and Ritchie 89).
Bronfenbrenner ecological system
The systems here include a microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem. The microsystem consists of the child’s family, classroom, neighborhood and any component of the environment. The mesosytem is when two Microsystems do interrelate, for example the family and the neighborhood. The exosystem is when the child is indirectly involved with the system yet gets affected by what happens in the system. Macrosystem covers the cultural values and beliefs that the child grows up in. Poor cultural beliefs can be a great hindrance to child’s development. Microsystem affect directly a child for example a more involved and supportive family will lead to better school grades. In the mesosystem an example of proper working relationship between the child and the teacher affects positively the child’s development. Exosystem the more stable it is the more stable a child become (Howes and Ritchie 95).
Factors endangering children
A child’s problems may be psychological or hard to diagnose, leading to exhibiting weird behavior. This, impacts on the normal functions that the child is meant to do but does not. This means the right area of the brain that deals with some executive function gets challenged on its growth quest (Howes and Ritchie 100).
Stress influences
Family stress does affect the child whether directly or indirectly? The stress load gets to be released to the teacher. Low grades, accidents, parents financial difficulties are all forms of stress. The younger the child, the stronger the effect brought by negative stress. Adults may respond a bit better than children to high stress levels though it may tend to affect the child’s development indirectly (Eliot 200).
Family value on child development
This is vital in providing the child the ability to make healthy choices in future on their own. Children’s brains do perceive the values they are taught as their moral anchor. These form the normal response in his conscience. Various components namely; normative, cognitive, creative and psychological form the socialization process developed by the family (Eliot 210).
Nature and Nurture
The care given to children especially during early life stage is about developing relationships. The early child’s positive and negative emotions, and the adult’s responses to them. At this point it’s advisable to expose the child to nature and its different components as this helps develop the child (Eliot 215).