Category: Childhood Development

The World Health Organization (WHO), have recently made a decision to classify video game addiction as a mental health disorder. Due to video games becoming increasingly popular and due to approximately 91% of children worldwide playing video games, it begs the question, are children imitating behaviors and actions seen in violent video games? A statement…

Violence can be manifested in various ways, although the most frequently used is attacking, which means disrespecting in rude manners to the people around a person. Video games and violence has been a main topic in todays world revolving around the younger generation. Video game addiction also known as gaming disorder is generally defined as…

Technology has become an imperative part of modern society. It affects the way we communicate – whether it is in work or social settings, technology helps us to reach out to more people and expand our network of relationships. Although our generation has generally been able to channel technology into a productive space, many people…

South Africa’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Department (2015) established South Africa’s National Early Childhood Development Policy, which focuses on ensuring that all children, from birth to grade R, have access to high quality DIT supplies. The focus of the policy is to provide all disadvantaged young children in South Africa with access to ECD so…

In this essay, I will be exploring how childhood development across cultures is proven to be invariant, through the stages of development produced by Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Although there are small differences between each region due to cultural upbringing the main stages of development are expressed in similar ways.…

Child Development and New Technology We are going to be taking a looking at child development and new technology, there are many arguments for and against this topic, I am going to give you some advantages of new technology for children and the disadvantages. Advantages of New Technology There are many advantages of children learning…

There are many features of adventure playgrounds that make them stand apart from the usual, modern play areas. From being able to build forts to even being able to set their own fires, children are provided with a variety of activities to freely explore and interact with objects on their own. This liberty that children…

As children, one of the biggest rewards that we can have is when our parents allow us to play outside with our friends or with our toys. However, aside from being a fun activity children can enjoy, play is also considered one of the most effective ways we help childrens overall growth and development. Even…

Everybody thinks about the different generalizations and social marks of disgrace that accompany socioeconomic status, whether they will decide to let it be known or not. Society has come to accept that a kid who originates from a group of low socioeconomic status will not work out quite as well as a kid who originates…

How to Scale Down Childhood Obesity Declared by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a worldwide chronic health threat, linked to children with copious amounts of body fat and a body mass index (BMI) in the 95th percentile, is childhood obesity. Universally accepted and endorsed by the CDC, BMI is a weight…