In this article, we’ll focus on six different stages of childhood: infants, toddlers, preschoolers, middle childhood, young teens, and teenagers.
Here’s an example: Khaled Hosseini’s novelThe Kite Runneris about a young man’s childhood in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes over and his subsequent emigration to the United States with his father. If you read a synopsis of the novel’s plot, you will find something similar to this d...
True perfectionism, which is surprisingly and increasingly common in school-age children, comes with rarely feeling satisfied and chronic concerns about falling short, often in the form of “this pathological, repetitive worry,” says Gordon Flett, a psychology professor and researcher at York Universi...
This article examines the complex, culture-specific domestication of the universal commitment to the 'best interests of the child' in policies and curriculum guidance concerning ECEC for children under 3years of age in two countries, Brazil and Finland. The qualitative case analysis is based on ...
Early Childhood (2 to 6 years old) During which stage of childhood do children develop their sense of self and identity, and begin to form relationships with peers and adults? Middle Childhood (6 to 11 years old) At what age do children begin to experience significant physical, cognitive, ...
Such an argument is ambiguous, since all fictional experiences, childhood included, are cultural and aes- thetic constructions; and while first-hand experiences of age, gender, race, sexual orientation or disability may enhance artistic representation, they are not a decisive prerequisite. Moreover, ...
We present a computational model that decides what to teach by maximizing the learner’s expected utility of learning from instruction and from exploration, and we show that children (aged 5–7 years) make decisions that are consistent with the model’s predictions (that is, minimizing the ...
The effect of different types of care environment on orphaned and separated children and adolescents’ (OSCA) experiences of abuse in sub-Saharan Africa is uncertain. Objective Our two primary objectives were 1) to compare recent child abuse (physical, emotional, and sexual) between OSCA living in...
The higher the percentile is, the bigger your baby is compared to others of the same age and gender; the smaller the percentile is, the smaller your child is. To track what percentile your baby is in, during the first 2 years your baby’s provider will plot your baby’s weight on gro...
In California, some early childhood groups argued against expanding the transitional kindergarten program, saying investments are better made in supporting more child-care options for working parents. “A child’s intellectual development from birth to age five is a continuum,” the nonprofit Child Car...