Letter to Emilio Rodrigue

Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott

A letter from Winnicott to Emilio Rodrigue in which he expresses his enjoyment of Rodrigue’s paper on child development, which Winnicott believes extends the work of Melanie Klein. He discusses his own idea that a chaotic mother introduces the world to the infant in a chaotic way.

2019 ◽  
pp. 1409-1427
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Jacob

ICDS-Integrated Child Development Services is India's only government program for combating the rampant malnutrition prevalent in young children. In this chapter, the authors aim to examine the need and scope of ICDS scheme, its services and countrywide reach; considering that every fifth child in the world lives in India, this scheme is critical to ensuring that today's children who are our citizens of tomorrow are well nurtured and nourished, thus securing the country's future. Also its efficacy in achieving stated objectives is assessed through analysis of vital parameters such as nutritional status, mortality rates etc. Further, the bottlenecks facing the scheme such as lack of adequate sanitation facilities and supervisory staff etc. are studied and the initiatives taken by the government to revitalize it are also examined. The transformation into Mission Mode has ushered in programmatic, institutional and management reforms and renewed thrust on creating awareness through an Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign.


Author(s):  
Laura Baylot Casey ◽  
Kay C. Reeves ◽  
Elisabeth C. Conner

Child development experts have been raising alarms about the increasingly didactic and test-driven path of early childhood education as many programs eliminate play from their schedules. This limits the potential of technology use in play which is a natural combination for young children as play technologies become globally accepted as leisure time and learning activities. Play and technology both have their unique place in society and are often thought of as two separate entities. However, in today’s technology driven world, the separateness of the two is no longer as apparent as the two are beginning to blend. This blend is exciting but leaves educators with questions. Specifically, questions related to the following: (a) How do educators ensure that the child is challenged in every developmental domain and (b) How do educators create and facilitate opportunities for exposure to the traditional stages of play while also making sure that the child stays abreast of the latest and greatest technological advances? This chapter begins with the history of play and walks the reader to the issues educators are facing when technology and play merge.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Christina Entoh ◽  
Fransisca Noya ◽  
Kadar Ramadhan

More than a third of children in the world experience growth and development disorders both physically and mentally, and an estimated 5 to 10% of the child population has developmental delays. Child development problems such as motor delays, language, behavior, autism, hyperactivity, have increased in recent years, the occurrence in the United States ranges from 12-16.6%, Thailand 24%, Argentina 22.5%, and in Indonesia between 13 % -18%. Approximately 16% of children under five years old (toddlers). Indonesia experiences neurological and brain development disorders ranging from mild to severe. The purpose of this study is to increase the motivation of toddlers to carry out routine child development checks, increase the participation of toddlers to carry out child development checks using KPSP, early detection of growth, and developmental disorders. The method used in this community service is varied lectures. The speakers did a demonstration to mothers who have children of 3  - 72 months. Each mother gave information about their child's age and early detection of growth and development using KPSP according to the age child age. Results: Out of 140 children aged 3 - 72 months who were detected developmentally using the Pre Development Screening Questionnaire (KPSP), there were 134 children (95.7%) with normal results and 6 people (4.3%) with doubtful results and none (0%) who experienced deviance. Conclusion:  The 6 children with doubtful screening results, after 2 weeks of screening, obtained 100% normal developmental results. Suggestion: Early detection can find growth disorders and child development, therefore, an intervention can be done as early as possible.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 340
Author(s):  
Hannah Sidek ◽  
Erwin Hafid ◽  
Muhammad Amri

The process of fostering children has an important role in the world of education, but there are many problems related to this pattern of formation, especially in terms of morality. At this time, along with the shifting of social institutions that have resulted in immoral acts and violence in all aspects of people's lives, it is necessary to protect or foster children's rights especially children in the Thai Pattani Muslim community, by observing the activities of the Thai Pattani Muslim community in maintaining or giving guidance to children. This paper discusses the Pattern of Child Development according to the Messenger of Allah. in the Thai Pattani Muslim Community. The implications of this study indicate that the attitudes and behavior of parents will be imitated directly by their children and that it will become a habit for children. So from this research is expected to provide knowledge and benefits to all parents in improving the pattern of child development according to the Prophet. so that children can live in Islamic culture.


Author(s):  
James G. Dwyer

This article introduces The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law. This volume of collected essays by many of the world’s leading scholars of child welfare and law combines thorough research on a comprehensive range of legal issues salient in children’s lives with sophisticated theoretical and policy analysis of the law, informed by current empirical research on child development and welfare. The Handbook’s organization follows the life of a child, more or less chronologically, from prebirth to adolescence and a sequence of ever-widening social spheres—from the womb to family to society to the world. The topics range from assisted reproduction, protection of fetuses, parentage, child maltreatment, medical care, education, custody disputes, children’s privacy, delinquency, minimum age laws, and strategies for advocating for youths. There is also substantial geographic breadth; the authors of the volume’s chapters represent four continents and roughly a dozen countries. A unifying feature of the volume is that all chapters put children at the center of attention. The authors write about topics relating to children from within their respective areas of expertise and offer a perspective that focuses first and foremost on how the law impacts children’s wellbeing and experience of life. This often produces unfamiliar, thought-provoking conclusions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Christina MacRae

Inspired by Erin Manning’s use of Marey’s photography to explore time and movement, this article works with slow-motion video drawn from research with two-year olds. It takes a genealogical approach, considering how the medium of film has been implicated in colonising constructions of childhood. It then deploys Bergson’s notion of ‘grace taking form’, making the case that video’s unique capacity to attend to the virtual potential of movement can be used as a de-colonising methodology. Slowing-down video enlivens data in ways that resist interpreting behaviour through the logic of consciousness, giving credence to what Olsson calls a different ‘bodily logic of potentiality’. The article ends with a slowed video-clip voiced by the author as an emerging response to the entanglement between film and child development theory in order to re-animate the sensori-motor as a relational mode of engagement with the world.


Author(s):  
Seçil Yücelyiğit

Child development is segmented into five periods and the bridge between early childhood and adolescence is named as “middle childhood.” One of the milestones of this period is schooling. Middle childhood children start learning about the world; their roles, responsibilities and how to participate in this world by communicating with others besides the family members. These abilities are gained mostly at school with peer relations. In this chapter, the developmental areas of middle childhood children will be discussed with examples from recent studies.


Author(s):  
Jeremiah Jacob

ICDS-Integrated Child Development Services is India's only government program for combating the rampant malnutrition prevalent in young children. In this chapter, the authors aim to examine the need and scope of ICDS scheme, its services and countrywide reach; considering that every fifth child in the world lives in India, this scheme is critical to ensuring that today's children who are our citizens of tomorrow are well nurtured and nourished, thus securing the country's future. Also its efficacy in achieving stated objectives is assessed through analysis of vital parameters such as nutritional status, mortality rates etc. Further, the bottlenecks facing the scheme such as lack of adequate sanitation facilities and supervisory staff etc. are studied and the initiatives taken by the government to revitalize it are also examined. The transformation into Mission Mode has ushered in programmatic, institutional and management reforms and renewed thrust on creating awareness through an Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign.


Author(s):  
Vanessa LoBue

9 Months In, 9 Months Out is a month-to-month real-time account of pregnancy and first-time parenthood that integrates the science of infant and child development with the personal journey involved in becoming a parent. Expertise can explain the science of what’s happening to a fetus or a baby throughout development, but all the science in the world can’t tell you what it feels like to have a baby: the pang of morning sickness, the pain of labor, the excitement of birth, and the joy that comes from seeing your baby’s first smile. This book is about pregnancy and first-time parenthood and what we experience in the 9 months of pregnancy and the 9 months that follow. As a professor of infant and child development, the author had certain expectations about how pregnancy and motherhood would go. Experiencing it was a totally different story. As she learned, the first few months of parenthood are much harder than anyone tells you. As she describes her personal journey through first-time parenthood, the author also takes a researcher’s lens to issues that are top of mind for new parents: breastfeeding, the sleep training controversy, gender development, the science (or lack thereof) behind the link between vaccinations and autism, the debate over screen time, and many more.


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