Children's Minds

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Imagination and creativity are children’s unique response to what they see, hear and experience around them. Learn more about imagination and creativity as part of the early years foundation stage (EYFS), including advice from experts and suggested activities. One way to avoid focusing on results during this phase of development is to emphasize the breadth of skill development over depth.Just as an air traffic controller can learn to manage arriving and departing flights, children can learn to manage their mental processes through practice and support. A developmental psychologist writing in the late 70s, Donaldson begins by decisively moving away from the behavioralist movement of preceding decades, and then addressing the challenge to Piaget being taken up by educational theorists of the time who were largely influenced by Lev Vygotsky's 'Mind in Society,' just translated into English nearly a half century after the Russian's death. But if children are exposed to prolonged or repeated traumatic experiences, such as child abuse and neglect, this can cause ‘toxic’ or ‘harmful’ stress, where they start to feel more stressed more often and for longer periods.

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One of the main reasons is how fast the brain grows starting before birth and continuing into early childhood. Having caring relationships and access to support services can reduce the harmful effects of negative experiences and help a child’s brain develop in a healthy way (Shonkoff et al, 2015). To nurture their child’s body and mind, parents and caregivers need support and the right resources. This helps build brain architecture and stress management systems (Center on the Developing Child, 2013). Because these connections between brain cells are where learning occurs, twice as many synapses enable the brain to learn faster than at any other time of life.Exploring those differences can help us understand how kids think and behave and can provide insights into how the mind and brain develop and change over time. It's fascinating getting into the child's head via the clever experiments Donaldson and her pals dreamed up! For example, they might be worried their child will be removed from their care (National Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and Multiple Disadvantage, 2019).

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Start talking to parents and carers about what support they need as soon as problems are identified. The book hooks you with a question of why older kids hate school, but her answers seem anti-climatic. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. Children’s responses or representation may be different to what you expected, you should welcome this.You need to be confident and give children time to respond to the things they see, hear and experience at their own individual level. Just as good rallies between tennis players develop their athletic abilities, good rallies between children and adults strengthen children’s developing brain architecture, improve their cognitive skills and develop resilience (Shonkoff et al, 2004; Shonkoff et al, 2015). We are not looking to create ‘perfect’ individuals, but instead powerful, strong, happy individuals who know themselves and are happy with who they are.

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Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Donalson comes down squarely in the revisionist camp, with strong arguments that some Piagetian tasks are faulty as evidence as to what is possible with young children because of Piaget's own adult presumptions. Finishing with a world of warning on education linked entitlement, this book full of gems give me yet another perspective allowing to analyse society disintegration. Being aware that small problems when left to fester, can create bigger uglier problems is key for taking that leap to getting support.We want to create a shared and simple language around child brain development that can be used by all professionals, parents, carers and children. For example, children learn language, more effectively face-to-face with a teacher or caregiver than by watching TV or a video (Shonkoff et al, 2018).