DEVELOPMENT DURING INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD (Essay Sample)

Development during infancy and early childhood Name: Institution: The infants and children are hope for tomorrow's society, their growth and development for full world occupancy, is highly dependent on how the society will prepare them at an early stage. Parents have a greater responsibility in understanding children and preparing them, as well as equipping them with relevant skills in life. Families affect the development of infants and young children through built relationships overtime. Couples that respect each other and solve their issues amicably, provide a good environment for the growth of infants and children. Young children are very observant and highly capture information at an early age, as a result of families being present for the infants and engage in a peaceful process towards solving issues, it helps the young children to be peaceful in the near future. According to Benson, & Haith (2010), during infancy children that witness their caregivers being abused with violence, tend to view the world as unsafe place, view adults as people who are dangerous, the infants feel that they are being denied protection. In the long run the children tend to have an attachment with their primary care giver and loose an interest with the people that inflicted pain to their care givers. It is sad since the pain inflictors, might be persons that are connected to infants biologically like their fathers. The infants will develop a liking for the mother or care giver and shy away from their fathers. There are different forms of parenting styles and the style chosen by parents or care givers has a great impact on children during infancy, the parenting styles include but not limited to the following; peer parenting, positive parenting and democratic parenting. Positive parenting is a style which emulates positive aspects of a child during infancy. Parents look at the positive aspects of children even when instilling discipline. For instance, when children do wrong things, the parents focus more on what should have been done right and not what was done wrong, more so the parents reward positive traits and behaviors. In this parenting style reward is the main factor, either praise or tangible rewards. Children are taught why it is right to get it done right. The parents less focus on the negative outcomes. According to Davis (2016), parents should be free with their children, they out to be friendly with the kids especially during infancy which will end up creating a rapport with the children and making parenting to be easier (Davis, 2005). In democratic parenting, children are involved in debates, they come up with rules on how things should be done, children are given chores and everything revolves around arguments. Rules are followed and there are is no room for negotiation in this style of parenting. Participants of democratic parenting always want to be on top of leadership and are manipulative since they are wiser than their children and advanced in age (Lofas 1998). According to (Lofas 1998), Peer parenting is a type of style where parents and children are equal, according to this model of parenting, the parents behave like peers to their children and they compete for love and power. It is a dangerous form of parenting since parents loose an emotional attachment with children, relationship becomes a peer relationship and not a parent to infant relationship. When you adopt this style it will come a point when you are seeking for attention from your children. As children grow with age and time they will replace their parents as peers, with introduction to new environment may it be schools or social gatherings such as sports. After an analysis of different parenting styles, I would recommend positive parenting style, I feel the style is aimed at helping the infants grow with positivity around them, they will do right things since they know outcomes of wrong things. In this style kids are following out of love and correction not coercion. The parents don't struggle to develop traits in children since they are friendly. One of the early childhood education is Nursery school education, it takes place at the tender age of four years. The c...