Sep
08
2008

If you can remember far enough back, I wrote both part one and two of this series on Theorists of Child Development. My first post was about Freud and my second was aboutErikson. Today, I am going to take us closer to the end of this series and discuss Piaget. If you are not sure [...]
Aug
04
2008

Often, when we look at the development of children, or watch our own children develop, we are often mystified as to how something occurred. One minute our child was laying on the floor and the next, he was flipped over. We tend to forget the practice involved in the whole experience, the weeks of the [...]
Jul
18
2008

I am always amazed at the leaps and strides in development that children have over the first five years of their life. There is so much going on and before you know it, you have a person with a complex personality that can be almost mind boggling. Not only do they have distinct dislikes and [...]
Jul
14
2008

This last weekend, I had my niece visiting. It is an interesting prospect when you have 3 children in the house and they range in age from 6 years 11 months to 4 years 2 months to 3 years 8 months. It gives you a little perspective on how quickly children develop and it was [...]
Jun
20
2008

If you remember a few weeks ago, I started a post on the Theorists of Child Development and by the end of a pretty long post, I had only covered Freud and some of his theories. I did hint that I was going to move on to Erik Erikson in a few weeks and today [...]
Jun
13
2008

If you remember, I have already posted about the development of artistic skill already. If you haven’t read it yet or need a refresher, you can read it here. Just to recap a few things, when I talk about any type of development, I am really looking at a “range of normalcy.” I know that [...]
Apr
23
2008

The preschool age is a wonderful age during childhood and I really enjoyed teaching children in this age group. They are interested in learning about any topic from bugs to space and have countless questions for you to answer. Developmentally, they should be at a level to really express their needs and some of them [...]