Early Childhood Development

4. EARLY
CHILDHOOD

5. Children live in a world of imagination
and feeling…. They invest the most
significant object with any form they
please, and see it in whatever they wish
to see.

6. DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
Dr Deirdre White - Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

7. What is Early Childhood
Development?

8. CHILDHO
ODBEGINS WHEN
THE RELATIVE
DEPENDENCY OF
BABYHOOD IS OVER AT
THE AGE OF 2 YEARS
EXTENDS TO THE TIME
WHEN THE CHILD
BECOMES SEXUALLY
MATURE.

9. Early childhood
is subdivided into two
separate periods:
Early & Late Childhood
- Early childhood extends
from two to six years and
late childhood extends from
six to the time the child
becomes sexually mature.

11. Characteristics of Early Childhood
• Names used by Parents
Most parents consider early childhood a problem age or a
troublesome age. Parents often refer to early childhood as the toy
age.
• Names used by Educators
Educators refer to early childhood years as the preschool age.
- The early childhood years, either in the home or in a preschool, are a
time of preparation.
• Names used by Psychologists
“PREGANG AGE”, one of the most commonly applied names. They
refer to early childhood as the Exploratory Age, Questioning Age,
Creative Age, and imitative Age.

13. Babies have learned to walk.
Babies have learned to take solid foods.
Achieved a reasonable degree of physiological
stability.
The major task of learning to control the elimination
of body wastes has been almost completed.
Have reasonably correct pronunciation.
Comprehend the meaning and simple statements and
commands.

14. •Can put together several words
into meaningful sentences.
•Comprehend what other say to
them is still on a low level.

15. •Learning to relate emotionally to
parents, siblings, and other
people.

16. •Children must learn to give as well
as to receive affection.

17. PHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT

18. •HEIGHT
by the age of six, the average child measures
46.6 inches.

19. •WEIGHT
At the age of six, children seven
times as much as they did at birth.
Girl- 48.5 pounds
Boy- 49 pounds

20. •BODY
The baby look disappears.

21. Have a n endomorphic, mesomorphic and
ectomorphic body build.

22. BONES AND MUSCLES
The muscles become stronger , larger
and heavier.

23. •FAT
• - Children who tend toward endomorphy
have more adipose than muscular tissue
those tend toward mesomorphy have more
muscular than adipose tissue; and those
with an ectomorphic build have both small
muscles and little adipose tissue.

24. • During the first four to six months of early childhood, the
last four baby teeth-the back molars – erupt.
• The baby teeth begin to be replaced by permanent
teeth.
• When earl childhood ends, the child generally has one
or two permanent teeth.

25. PHYSIOLOGICAL Habits

26. → The child learns to eat their meals at a
right times.
→Young children’s appetite are not as
ravenous as the were in babyhood.
→Three-year olds sleep approximately
twelve out of the twenty-four hours.

27. Thank You and God Bless 
Prepared by: Juliet A. Origenes