A child is born and a new world
emerges for him. It is the most exciting moment for those craving for a
child. People are born and later they
die. There is an endless cycle of birth and death. But the golden moment of
childhood is priceless and the most precious moment of one’s life. Life itself
is precious and astounding journey. But the childhood memories never expires
and remains mortal. These mortal remains bring immense joy when we recap about
this wonderful moments. What is life is an amazing question and this has made
my mind to involve myself into this journey with so many challenges, leaps and
bounds and up’s and down’s, which we
have to cope with in our daily world. So, we can assume as life is a journey
which we experience from birth to death. Childhood is a moment where we cherish
and nurture our personality and groom ourselves to be a responsible citizens. It
is a time when we learn the values of life and the core of our very existence that
is, our personality and attitude. Further we carry those values and principles
and take those values for their life forever. Adults are like children who play
with money amidst all the tension, in order to gain worldly pleasures and
materialistic comfort. A child is born as a prodigy and he has a lot many
things to choose and nourish whatever he learns. Learning is eternal for a
human being and a child starts to learn from the day he is in a cradle.
Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.
Early childhood education is
significant in one’s life. Whatever a child learns in this period takes this
lesson for a long term goals or may till his death. Early childhood education
is an education system theory which corresponds to the teaching of young
children up till the age of 8. We can also term this as infant or toddler
education which is a subset of early childhood education and this education is
up to the age of 2. During this phase of childhood development synaptic growth
takes place in the brain, especially in the frontal lobe. So this is a time the
child is potent for physical development and helps the child to explore and try
out new things. There is social emotional growth and development starts at this
age. The emotions may include expressions, attachments and personality. Children’s
learn a lot from birth to the age of three. During this stage any child learns
quickly and rapidly compared to their rest of the lives. At the age from birth
to three years, it is easier for information to be absorbed easily and due to
this reason it is at this time the child needs vital nutrient for the brain to
grow properly. During this phase children’s develop close connection with their
peers. Therefore at this stage it is important for parents, guardians or
caretakers to take optimum care when they are molding a child’s personality to
a responsible citizens for the betterment of their later life. Early
child development is important and it is a system of policies and programmes
for children’s from birth to eight years of age. We know that children’s
develop in their own pace and potential but all the children’s progresses
through an identifiable physical, emotional, cognitive growth and change. The
primary motto of early childhood education is to improve the children’s
cognitive, mental and emotional capability.
Hence the child becomes ready to go to school after an end to his early
childhood education and therefore has positive characteristics and capable of
tackling the challenges that persist them in the future. At the toddler level the child starts to learn
the language skills. The child starts to recognize the words spoken by the
guardians or parents. The parents are the primary medium with whom the child
communicates in-order to feed its necessities. All human beings starts to learn
the language at this stage and so, the child is able to speak at his/her later
stage of his/her life. As a child is born in this new world it begins to smile,
track people and objects with eyes. After this 3 months is over the child
starts to listen intently. It is able to respond with a laugh, put objects or
toys in mouth etc. Approximately over 7 months of child’s age, a child begins
to recollect simple events and recognize themselves. They
start
to explore meaningful words and understand own words and other common names.
Further, it is able to find hidden objects and get shy and upset with
strangers. As a parent one can easily
notice that the child starts to imitate other’s people’s actions and this
happens after a year of a child’s birth. It is able to understand words, listen
to stories, improve relationships etc. After two years of the child’s birth it start
enjoying new skills, learn new languages, and get control of its hands and
fingers. From the third year of the child’s birth children starts developing
long term memory, talk more, ask questions and like to play with friends and
further improve its social skills.
Every child is special and this
comes from inborn. Each and every human has unique set of skills. These skills
have made us a modern human being. We would laugh at the old days, the troubled
days, when we were just but a crude piece of craftsmanship. But today, the
world is shrinking and modern communication has paved the way for easy
communication. There are fewer barriers in communication and we have learnt
various ways to communicate. In the olden days a child rarely had an
opportunity to get into pre-school education. But today most of the schools
have pre-school education and early childhood education. Hence today’s children
can have a wonderful opportunity to nourish themselves for the betterment of
their lives.



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