What Is Childhood Development?

The age range of childhood ranges from 6, 7 to 12 and 13 years. It belongs to the elementary school period. It is a period of laying down the basic knowledge and learning ability for a lifetime of learning activities.

Childhood

In childhood, children's memory development is of great significance to their learning and psychological development. The effect of long-term memory and retention time depends to a large extent on the strategy of memory. The main memory strategies of school-age children are:

The basic characteristic of childhood thinking is that logical thinking develops rapidly, and the transition from concrete image thinking to abstract logical thinking is completed during the development process. This transition has to go through an evolutionary process, which constitutes the basic characteristics of the development of childhood thinking.

Self-awareness is formed during the interaction between children and the environment. Education and regulating children's relationship with the environment play an important role in the development of children's self-awareness.

Morality is the sum of behavioral norms that regulate the relationship between people and between individuals and society. Moral development refers to the process by which individuals acquire moral norms in the process of socialization and guide behaviors with moral norms. Moral connotation includes moral emotion, moral cognition and moral behavior.

Social interaction in childhood mainly refers to the interaction between children and their peers. Partnership is a very important way for children's social development. Peer experience and partnership with peers have a significant role in their personality and social (including moral) development.

Friendship is a lasting close relationship between individuals based on mutual attachment. Friendship is an advanced form of peer relationship.

The family is the first school in life, and the parents are the first teachers in life and the longest-serving teachers. The impact of family and interpersonal relationship on children's psychological development is the most important and far-reaching.

It is true that the influence of various interpersonal relationships in the family is two-way. For example, parenting styles affect children's development, and the child's actual performance also affects parents' attitudes and performance towards them. In family relationships, the quality of parent-child relationship has the most important effect on the child's development. In addition, the quality of parent-child marriage relationship also has a profound impact on children's psychological development.

Children's interaction with parents declines with age, interaction with peers rises rapidly with age, interaction with teachers increases with age before elementary school, and has remained at an interaction ratio of 20 %about. This trend of change shows the objective laws of children's interpersonal communication and social development, which deserves the attention of parents and teachers.