All children need an environment where they can explore, grow and thrive. Attentive caregivers who understand well the needs and stages of early childhood development, will promote healthy and safe practices. Children in different age groups have different needs for stimulation, engagement, comfort, relationship development and rest. Based on your child’s age, here are some things to consider when choosing child care.
0 to 6 Month
- Attachment
- Basic needs (Food, water, and medicines)
- Hugs and play
6 months from birth is the age when a child lives in the arms of their parents. It is the age such as breast milk and complementary medicines are needed. At that age, babies often hold something in their hands, start listening when they hear a sound, and smile when coaxed. Warmly hug your child in your arms and need to play with them.
Preschool ( 3 to 5 Years)
- Self- confidence
- Begin communication
- Need respect and trust
Children aged 3 to 5 years are the age at which they begin to interact with the environment. Help children learn how to play, work together, and make friends.Plan activities so that all children can join in. Children are able to use small muscles (writing, drawing, running and jumping…) Different rates of information delivery progress in the brain (different rates of readiness to perform relevant tasks). Learning to talk about ideas (not fully coherent yet). Children’s answers don’t forget to acknowledge and praise the actions.
School-Age Children (5 to 9 Years)
- Freedom and be ready to deal with changes
- Support
- Good communication
- Need respect and trust
Between the ages of 5 and 9, children’s brain and body development is slower than that of 4-year-olds from birth. Butimproving heart and lung capacity (being able to do more in running and jumping activities), improving the ability to think logically,improving memory, enriching language (improving language use), helping peers of the same age, increased peer-to-peer communication such as property exchange.Learn more about the outside world, family, business, want to participate in politics etc. There are changes in the ability to solve problems and the ability to cope with the feelings of problems.For that reason, when encouraging children of this age to read, such as asking them to read in groups, Make you think about solving a problem in the book/story. their daily life They prefer to explain things related to other social issues. It’s good to create opportunities to read together as they are more concerned with their peers. Children’s good deeds also need to show respect and trust.
