Decognitive Child Development

Every child is different, and so is every parent's experience; but experts have gained a clear idea about the range of normal development from birth to the time of a person’s death. Although most child development experiences are not going to be the same due to the differentiation between culture and genetics, there is developmental milestones every child should experience within a certain range of age. Some of the most apparent factors of a child’s developmental stages are genetics, parenting, experiences, friends and family, education, and culture, or environment. All of these factors shape and individuals life from the earliest years to the later years of life and eventually death.

Although there is multiple developmental stages in one’s

Cognitive development is the development involving the ways that growth and change influence a person’s behavior (Feldman, 2011, p. 5). Cognitive development can go into many subcategories, including memory, language, and intelligence. In a toddler at the age of two their language seems to steadily improve. They begin to spontaneously join two or more words together to make a sentence, usually only getting to a three word limit. Their vocabulary content ranges from 50 words or less. All of this is to the exception of the child’s parental influence on their lives. Their memory and intelligence also increase significally. They begin to recognize shapes and colors. Toddlers at the age of two are able to build towers of six or more cubes and are able to recognize when an object is hidden under something, and when asked to find it they are able to. They are able to problem solve. They also experience separation anxiety from their keepers due to attachment issues. As the toddlers age, their short term memory increases with age and their attention span also increases with the amount of information they can obtain at a given

Personality development is the study of stability and change in the characteristics that differentiate one person from another over the lifespan. Social development is the study in which an individual’s interactions and relationships with others grow, change, and remain stable over the course of a lifespan (Feldman, 2011, p. 5). One of the biggest things that take place for a parent and toddler at the age of two is poddy training. The toddler begins to verbalize their needs for using the restroom and learn how to dress and clean themselves. All of this resulting in a learning and understanding of self-independence. Toddlers also begin to understand their own and other people’s feelings and learn how to express empathy. Self-esteem is also a huge part of a child’s personality and social development. They begin to recognize themselves as individuals different from one another, and become more curious about themselves, and the environment surrounding them. They tend to express attachment issues resulting in separation anxiety and temperament issues. They exhibit frustration and anger resulting in temper tantrums. There are three types of temperament: easy, difficult, and slow to warm. Since self-esteem is such a huge part of this age and development the parents have to respond to a temper tantrum in a firm