The first concept i chose to review was child attachment, the emotional bond between a child and the parent. There is many different type of attachment such as insecure or secure attachment. The thing with attachment is that it may seem like a bad thing for a child to be attached to the parent but a lot of parents over look it. It is normal for children to build that strong with the parent and feel safe and secure around them. Sometimes attachment can go over board and that is when the child cannot be anywhere without its parent present. For example, lets say the kid is in the room with the parent and then all of the sudden the parent leaves, the child starts to cry and be disruptive. The parent then returns to the room and the child feels safe and stops crying. This is what attachment is. …show more content…
Many children sometime go through this stage and start believing that their toys have feelings and can feel the same things the child is feeling. For example, a child is running around and hits himself with the table so now the child is mad at the table because he thinks the table hit him. Another example for animism can be when a child try 's to fight with a toy thinking the toy will respond back because he thinks the toy is alive and can feel the punches or the throwing around he is doing with the toy. Animism happens around 4 or 5 and as the child grows he understands more what is living and what is not. Animism weakens more as the child ages such as when they reach the age of 7 or more they now understand that animals and plants are really the only organisms that are really