OLCreate: CREATE_1 Module 1: Module 1 - Childhood and children’s rights: 1.5 Characteristics of childhood (2024)

FAQs

What are the characteristics of a childhood? ›

There are, however, some common characteristics of the period of childhood, which should guide you in the way you look at and work with children. Three of the most important are: dependency, vulnerability, and resilience.

Late childhood is characterized by names like the troublesome age, sloppy age, and quarrelsome age from parents' perspectives and the elementary school age and critical period of achievement from educators' views. Psychologists may call it the gang age, age of conformity, creative age, or play age.

Disruptive behavioural problems such as temper tantrums, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional, defiant or conduct disorders are the commonest behavioural problems in preschool and school age children.

What are the five characteristics of development? Development is similar for each individual. Development builds upon earlier learning. Development proceeds at an individual rate. The different areas of development are interrelated. Development is a lifelong process.

Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age. Skills such as taking a first step, smiling for the first time, and waving “bye-bye” are called developmental milestones. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move. You see children reach milestones every day.

A developmental delay refers to a child who has not gained the developmental skills expected of him or her, compared to others of the same age. Delays may occur in the areas of motor function, speech and language, cognitive, play, and social skills.

Infancy (neonate and up to one year age) Toddler ( one to five years of age) Childhood (three to eleven years old) - early childhood is from three to eight years old, and middle childhood is from nine to eleven years old. Adolescence or teenage (from 12 to 18 years old)

What are social problems in early childhood? ›

Red flags for social issues include:

The child has difficulty making new friends. Child is bullied or excluded by other children. Excessive conflict with friends and family. The child is often too shy to engage with others. The child is not invited to birthday parties or play-dates.

Childhood is constructed from positive child-like experiences and life-long lessons which are worth remembering. Childhood should be seen as a journey rather than a destination. The essence of childhood is the process of engaging with a world that supports and fosters development of the whole child.

Personality is the unique trait of a child. The components based on which the personality of an individual can be determined – temperament, environment and character. Temperament is the set of genetics determined traits in a child. The environment is the adaptive pattern related to the child's surroundings.

Childhood is a time in which children should live free from fear, violence and abuse, and be cared for and nurtured in a way that helps them to realise their full life's potential.

Researchers considered the so-called “big five” traits psychologists use to describe personality in broad strokes: Extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism.