Childhood Brain Development

The childhood stage is the most important stage for every human; it is full of love, kindness, and tenderness. It has a huge effect on children’s chances for achievement, success, and happiness. Early years of child’s life are important to build positive early experiences. Experiences have such great effect on the brain; especially children are vulnerable to persistent negative influences during this. Functions nervous are varying from child to another, but they are consistent with the basics of mental activity related to the reality outside the initiator of each complex mental process after childhood. Many external factors affect early brain development, such as socioeconomic and parent’s attachment.

Poverty affects brain structure in children;

socioeconomic status forms a huge part of this case. Children who grow up in the poorest households are having smaller brains than who live in affluence. Unfortunately, the child’s brain in family that earned less than $25,000 a year had 6 percent less surface area than other whose family earned $150,000 or more. Layton Lyndsey reports that in her study “The poor children also scored lower on the battery of cognitive tests.” (Lyndsey Layton). Children raised in poverty are faced daily with overwhelming challenges. The most significant risk factors affecting children raised in poverty, the poor parents are under emotional, financial, or other type of stress that effect on their children. Poverty threatens the quality of life of all children. The children who grow up in poverty are more likely to have learning difficulties, to drop out of school, to be out of work, and to succeed the poverty into generation.
Another problem shapes the child’s brain is parental education. The parental education plays big impacts on child’s brain. The research found an association between the prenatal education and brain structure of the child. Prenatal education plays an important role to build a strong brain foundation, so child can move easily through learning stage.
In addition, children are growing rapidly, so they need high nutrient.

If the children do not receive the nutrient’s need to grow up, they are more likely to experience physical mental and academic problems. The child body attempts to adopt lack of food by decreasing physical and intellectual growth. A child's formative period needs a balance of nutrients for normal brain development. This is subject in the Nutrition and Early Brain Development article “Shortages of nutrients such as iron and iodine can impair cognitive and motor development, and these effects are often irreversible”.(The urban child institute). So, Long term under nutrition can slow behavioral and cognitive development, affecting school achievement, and heath undermines future

work.
Emotional environment supports the children’s development self-knowledge, self-confidence, and self-esteem.

Children emotional social development growth is increased when the parents have a good attachment with them. Child needs adults who are consistent with their expectations. The research shows children need to build a good attachment with the parents or caregiver, so kids will begin to feel valued and respected. “. Typically, the weak or anxious attachments formed by infants in poverty become the basis for full-blown insecurity during the early childhood years”. (Ubelacker S). Respecting children opinions led to build trust between them also, answering their questions. The child is expected to get the answers to all his questions, the adults’ world for a child is the knowledge of good and example of which is absorbed by the source of life experiences. Also, the key to build self-esteem is raising the child morale and giving him responsibility for their behavior in a positive way. Showing love for the child and praise his work strengthens self-esteem, also talking with him about feeling and emotions. Meanwhile, helping the kids of all ages to control their behaviors and accept challenges. Playing and spending time with kids increase their growth and their expectations.

Finally, Supporting and encouraging parents and caregivers to join the child development and growth workshop to understand the child need,” helping children not just survive but thrive”. Childhood is a great

opportunity to build success generation, that help people overcome life’s challenges. The education is a key to reduce the poverty, which is paying a big role in child development age.