Tda 2.1 Child and Young People Development

2.1 Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors

0–3 years – It is important that a baby is stimulated from when they are first born, because this helps them develop communication skills as they get older.

From birth to 3 months their main source of communication will be crying. At this stage babies have very little understanding of what is happening to them and they do not know they are people. They will have different crying sounds and these will depend on what the baby needs for example for hunger, pain, feeling wet, fear and loneliness.

o say no when you ask them to do things |Understand & uses phrases ‘me’ & ‘you’

Physical: To promote physical development, children will have many opportunities to engage in activities that will strengthen fine motor, gross motor and sensory skills. They will participate in art and craft activities that will allow them to refine the use of their hands and fingers for more precise movements and further develop their hand eye coordination. The children will have the opportunity to participate in several outdoor, large group gross motor activities. These activities are designed to improve coordination (when moving or standing still), balance, and spatial awareness during movement. There are also activities that will engage the children in tasting and touching to help further develop their sensory skills.

By now young people will have a clear idea about what their favourite subjects are. They will be selecting + taking GCSE’s and A levels which they are able to achieve. They may lack self-confidence or avoid situations in which they have to do subjects they don’t like and may even lead to truancy. It’s often important to teenagers that they feel good about themselves and they belong.

These are not clearly defined in the article. The most vital terms, adolescents and children, are used as two separate identifiers of age but cut off ages are never clearly stated. The authors cite a number of sources and each focuses on a different age range adding further confusion to the child/adolescent terms.

0-2 years: From the birth to three months babies have the ability to focus on objects up to few inches away from themselves. Up to six months they will begin to develop their co-ordination, enjoy bright colours and shiny things.

Adolescence is ill-prepared for their adulthood responsibilities. In the “Adulthood later” article, It shows how adolescents aren’t going to be able to handle adult responsibilities because of how as an adult, those who can’t afford to live in a house, they live in a dorm with roommates in order to split the rent. It also talks about the fact the age at which people buy house has gotten higher since not many can afford those high prices and in result causing them to go to school for a longer time in order to have and make more money. It states in the article from ages 35-40 people are taking college courses to earn more money. And also, people are getting married later and getting divorced faster. And married couples

“The truth is that adolescents, despite occasional or numerous protests, need adults and want them to be part of their lives, recognizing that they can nurture, teach, guide, and protect them on the journey to adulthood (Association, 2002)”.

years) is the stage when adolescents are facing new roles and adult statuses. If they explore the

(Birth - 1 year) - The development of control over one's own body in both gross and fine motor skills is the infant's primary physical task, culminating toward the end of the first year in walking.

People at this age are caught between an adult and a teenager. They have a lot more opportunity to explore with less parental control and they are may be presented with responsibilities similar to an adult. People at this age may not feel like they can define themselves as a result because they may not have a lot of work experiences or may not have a lot of long term relationship experience. The opportunities to experience with relationships or activities help the emerging adult to define who their reciprocating self is as they enter their young adult

Stable friendships are formed, generally in same sex groups; also they start to interact in mixed groups

People ages 13-19 are usually classified as adolescents also know as teenagers. Adolescents are usually the most influenced in most American societies. In