Childhood Study Definition

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Childhood study is about learning the importance of a child’s life. You are considered a child from the age of 0-18 years. As the United Nations Convention on a Right of a Child has stated that being a child means that every human being that is under the age of eighteen years old is a child. Childhood study is also about how the traditions of a normal child that have changed over-time since the eighteenth or nineteenth century.
In the 1950’s there was a saying that a “child should be seen and not heard”, meaning that a child was not allowed to speak in matters that didn’t concern the child and this would be when the parents would tell their child to be quiet, they’d have to listen. But in Britain nowadays a child has a different place in the …show more content…

A person who has a view on childhood and sees how anything or any given category such as boys, girls, children or youth is also known as a social constructionist. A Social constructionist sees and also understands any given category in any kind of society. Social construction also recognises ideas about children that are changed over time and over many places. It also looks at the consequences of the given ideas and sees what impact it has on the …show more content…

Child psychology is one part of psychology and this parts of psychology focuses on children, mainly their behaviour and development. It is one of the most common types of psychology that is studied these days. This is the type of psychology that covers every child from birth to adolescence. ‘Child psychology’ is a term that is used to cover up all aspects of psychology relating to children and young people, from before they are born up until around 18 years of age.
When a child is young and when he starts to grow up, a child changes and he grows up according to the milestones of the child and sometimes quicker but sometimes later than the milestones that have been set. Child psychologists are also interested to see how people have changed throughout their lives from birth to adolescence. Child psychologists try to make sense of every step of development of a child, including how children learn, how they think, and how emotionally respond and work with others around them. Also their understanding of what other people think, and how their personalities, character and skills develop. Child psychologists are also interested in explaining how children achieve their milestones and how other people’s differences influence the development of a

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