Child Development Philosophy

My philosophy on the way children learn is on how they gain their skills through three different development stages. Those three stages are Physical, Cognitive, and Social-Emotional development. A child tends to pay attention to a lot of things people do and say. Children learn a lot from their family, parents, teachers, and friends. They learn things from them such as their language, emotions, and actions. A child also learns things through experience and memories on their own. They meet friends and learn about people from school, work, and church. I think a child learns more of their physical development when they are younger. A child body and mind changes as they grow older. I say that because a new born must learn how to crawl before they

I stated that children learn things from parents, family, friends, and teachers. DAP states children develop things from others and learn from them as well. DAP also call when children are developing and learning it lies under early education (naeyc). I think my philosophy differ from DAP’s because I did not have some core steps of how a child learns. It is stated different steps on how a child learn, and I only discussed the different development stages and my experience with children. I did hit some similar points and DAP did as well, but they were not that much of the same. My two empirical articles slightly backed up what I stated about how children learn and their different development stages. I did state that a child can gain more skills with social-emotional development by having friendships and relationships. Social-emotional develops more when a child is committed to learning in this stage. A child with a disability or a delay develops their social-emotional skills the same just as a child without a disability (Dunst et al., 2017). Children will learn from one another and learn from others and they also develop their emotions while they are learning things. They just do not do them all at one time neither do they do them in order. In my philosophy, I always thought children developed their stages the same just in different processes. Studies by Stahl and Feigenson (2017) show that humans already expect certain things from the environment and the world which is also called their expectations. A child response to an event or something changes how they react to it. A child’s facial expression and emotion can change during a surprise (Stahl & Feigenson, 2017). That article stated a lot about how a child can develop emotions just by going through things or even humans already expecting it to happen. Those things fall under developing in cognitive and