Chapter Highlights: Babyhood

1. The outstanding characteristics of babyhood extends from the end of second week to the end of the second year of life: Foundation Age; Time for Rapid Growth and Change; Decreased Dependency; Time of Increased Individuality and the Beginning of Socialization; Time of Sex-Role Typing and Creativity and Time of both appealing and Hazardous. 2. Babies who lag behind their age-mates in mastering the developmental tasks of babyhood- task that make them independent of adult helpare handicapped when they reach the childhood years. 3. Physical growth and Development occur at gradually decelerated rates throughout babyhood while development of the Late Childhood: physiological functions occurs at a rapid rate. 1. Late childhood, extends 4. Babyhood regarded as from six years until critical period in children become sexually personality devt because it mature at approximately is the time when age thirteen for girls and foundations of adult fourteen for boys, is personality are laid. labeled by parents as 5. Unhappiness tends to troublesome, sloppy, or increase as babyhood quarrelsome age; by the draws to a close though, educators as the for most babies, it is far elementary-school age, and less common than by psychologist as the gang happiness. age, the age of conformity, and the age of creativity. Early Childhood: 1. Early childhood extends from two to six years, is labeled by parents as the problem, the troublesome,

or the toy age; by educators as the preschool age; and by psychologists as the pre-gang, exploratory or the questioning age. 2. Early childhood is regarded as the teachable moment for acquiring skills because children enjoy the repetition essential to learning skills; they are adventuresome and likely to try new things; and they have few already-learned skills to interfere with the acquisition of new ones. 3. Speech development advances rapidly. 4. Early childhood is the pregang agethe time when the foundations of social development, characteristics of the gang age of the late childhood are laid. 5. Happiness in early childhood depend more on what happens to children in the home that outside the home.