Early childhood development is a very sensitive stage
Early childhood development is a very sensitive stage that children are able to acquire their optimal psycho-emotional and physical growth. Mostly this stage encompasses the social, physical, emotional, cognitive, and motor growth between zeros to eight years. From the chapter, I have learnt how children tend to think during their early childhood. Children start to feel at their early ages of about two and six years. At this specific stage, the children have not yet mastered the use of logical principles that are required in the thinking process. Thinking does not only occurs via the motor and the senses, but at times it incorporates the use of symbols such as using words, pictures, actions, and gestures to represent behaviors or things.
When children are in the process of growing and developing, at the age of six, they experience some limitations of preoperational thought that otherwise makes their logic difficult. One of these limiting factors is the egocentrism factor. Egocentrism is a form of concentration that small children perceive and interprets actions from their point of view. At this age, young children do not focus at all on appearance. This is a feature of preoperational thought that young children ignore situations where the attributes are not apparent. Such apparent characteristics may include the aspect of identifying a woman through the use of clothes or at times by the use of the earnings. Irreversibility is another factor that I have learnt in this chapter and limits the preoperational thought in early childhood development. Irreversibility is a characteristic that develops at the age of six, and it makes a child thinks that nothing can be undone or be reversed. Such thoughts imply that an action that has already taken place cannot be restored back the way it was before the actual change occurred.
It takes time for the theory of mind to develop for those children who are aged between 0-8 years. Typically, it begins in almost all children at the age of about four years. At this age, it is when a child starts to predict, interpret, and remembering some information. An excellent example of this can be demonstrated when young children begin to escape punishments by lying or giving false information to their parents or guardians. The theory of mind in children is strengthened by the maturity of the prefrontal cortex that advances in managerial processing. From this chapter, I have learned more about early childhood, and much care and understanding are needed while handling young children who are between the age of 0-8.