Padanthalumoodu

Childhood and
Growing UP
Submitted by: Manjusha.S.S
Department of Mathematics
Roll No : 65
Submitted on: 20/5/2021
Early Childhood
• Early childhood (3 to 6 years) is a time of
rapid- physical, cognitive, socio-
emotional, and language development of
a child
• During this stage ,children are highly
influenced by the environment and the
people that surround them.it is very
important from all aspects of
development.
characteristics
• Quick physical development
• Sense of imagination
• Sense of curiosity
• Imitation(copying others)
• language development
• playfulness
• Emotional instability(fear of dark, animals etc.)
• Famous for negative behavior(No! for everything)
Early childhood

Physical
Growth in skeleton, changes in quality
Development

Cognitive Intellectual powers like thinking, concentration etc.

Development

Moral Moral sense

Development

Emotional
Basic instinct
Development

Social
Development

Self –centred, animalistic

Physical Development

Height: At 2years-8cm
6years-117cm
Weight : 2 years-3 to 5 pounds
6 years-girls 48.5 pounds
Body Proportions changes
markedly.
Facial features remain small but
the chin becomes more
pronounced and the neck
elongates, the body become cone-
shaped.
Physical Development

Body Build at the first time in early childhood.

Bones became rigid at different part of the body
Muscles became larger and stronger
During the first four to six months of early childhood,
the last four baby teeth ,the back molars erupt. The last
half years of early childhood ,the baby teeth begin to be
replaced by permanent teeth
Cognitive Development

• Vocabulary development depends on environment.

• A happy home and nursery school condition helps for
proper mental development.
• Brain has reached 80% of its total development.
Cognitive Development
• Trying to teach a child at this age group are too
difficult .
• Development of intelligence is the development of
thinking through the stages of enumeration ,
description and interpretation
Moral Development

• Moral development in early childhood is at a low level.

• Young children develop or learn moral behavior in
specific situation
• Children may be told not to do
something one day but, by next
day or even the day after that,
they may have forgotten what they
were told not to do.
• In this stage ,Children obey rules automatically, without
using reason or judgment.
Emotional Development

• Emotions are especially intense during early childhood

Emotional Development
joy

• Anger
anger jealousy
• Fear
• Jealousy
• Curiosity
• Joy

curiosity
fear
• Grief
(loss of anything they love) grief
Social Development
• In this early childhood
stage ,children show
interest in watching
other children and play
with them.
• Parallel play is the
earliest form of social
activity young children
have with their peers.
Social Development
• At last of early childhood stage, they learn important social
behavior for successful social adjustment.

• This is a crucial stage in development because at this time

basic social attitudes and patterns of social behavior are
established