Being a parent of a newborn can be a wondrous thing, but if you are a first time parent, there are also a lot of unknowns. You may not know when your child is “supposed” to reach certain milestones during the stages of infant development. While not all infants do things at the exact same ...
Using observations, dialogues and experiments, Piaget suggested that children progress through a series of stages in their thinking and these stages occur in a fixed order from the sensori-motor to the formal operational. Before, describing the stages which Piaget observed babies go through in the attainment of object permanence, briefly the actual “concept” of object ...
INTRODUCTION Jean-Jacques Rousseau began documenting his ideas regarding child development in the mid 1700’s. His complete edition of Emile or On Education was published in 1764. The question that comes to mind while studying Rousseau’s work is what ideas have changed and what have remained the same about early child development/ child rearing since Rousseau’s ...
Children hit their various milestones (such as rolling over, crawling, talking) at various points in their lives. No two babies are the same. But when, as a parent, is it time to be concerned if your baby isn’t doing what they “should be” doing? How do you know if you’re helping or hindering your infant’s ...