What factors affect a child's social development?

Answer 1

There are said to be many things taht can affect a child while he/she is growing.

Heredity is one thing that affects the children from the beggining. This deals with the genes and characteristics that the parents passed down to their children.

Health- If a children is sick, their growth is likely to be slower than that of a healthy child.

Eating Habits- If a parent constantly feeds the child junk food, there may be complications then or even later on in life. A child with proper nourishment is more likely to develop with less complications.

Exercise- The amount of laying around vs. play and exercise will affect their development.

Rest- Right next to exercise, sleeping is essential to the body of a young child.

Disease- (similar to health) A sickly child is going to have trouble developing, and might already be experiencing some of those troubles.

Family/Surroundings- A friendly and safe environment lends itself to helping the child grow and develop. Negative surroundings are likely to carry with the children for the rest of their lives.

Answer 2

Early childhood educators have traditionally given high priority to enhancing young children's social development. During the last two decades a convincing body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that unless children achieve minimal social competence by about the age of six years, they have a high probability of being at risk throughout life. Hartup suggests that peer relationships contribute a great deal to both social and cognitive development and to the effectiveness with which we function as adults (1992). He states that:

Indeed, the single best childhood predictor of adult adaptation is NOT IQ, NOT school grades, and NOT classroom behavior but, rather the adequacy with which the child gets along with other children. Children who are generally disliked, who are aggressive and disruptive, who are unable to sustain close relationships with other children, and who cannot establish a place for themselves in the peer culture are seriously "at risk" (Hartup, 1991).

The risks are many: poor mental health, dropping out of school, low achievement and other school difficulties, poor employment history, and so forth (see Katz and McClellan, 1991). Given the life-long consequences, relationships should be counted as the first of the four R's of education.

Because social development begins in the early years, it is appropriate that all early childhood programs include regular periodic formal and informal assessment. of children's progress in the acquisition of social competence. The set of items presented below is based largely on research identifying elements of social competence in young children, and on studies in which the behavior of well-liked children has been compared to that of less well-liked children (Katz and McClellan, 1991).

Answer 3

nature, nurture, environment, social interaction, bonding, obviously food, water, and shelter, stability, feeling of safety

Answer 4

Factors affecting personality include how the child grows up and the genes they received from their parents. Sometimes kids can take after their dad alone or their mom.

Answer 5

not enough sleep, stress, and malnutrition.