Childhood and Growing up

Description

Making of a nation depends on the wide-ranging progress of children of civilized, cultured and happy society, we have to educate and train our children properly. As such, “Child Psychology” is the basis which is to be thoroughly researched and understood. The central intention of the present toil is to provide a handy text book of “Childhood and Growing Up” to the B.Ed., student teachers of TNTE University. This book will prove a genuine mine of information and assist as a “ready to refer” gizmo for student teachers, teacher – educators, pedagogues in the field of child psychology and education.

Human development is a lifelong process of physical, behavioral, cognitive and emotional growth and change. In the early stages of life-from babyhood to childhood,childhood to adolescence, and adolescence to adulthood-enormous changes take place. Throughout the process, each person develops attitudes and values that guide choices, relationships, and understanding. The term ‘growth’ is used purely in the physical sense. Growth refers to dimensional augmentation, cellular multiplication or quantitative increase in size, shape, height and weight. It is a biological phenomenon which can be easily observed and measured. Growth is one of the components of the developmental process. In a sense, development in its quantitative aspect is termed as growth.