The stages of growth discussed in an earlier question holds very critical insights for educational milestones and developmental strategies for children.The first implication of the stages of growth is that by the time a child is adolescent, she must have done well on the developmental milestones of the childhood and juvenile stages. The three more […]
The pre-adult stages of growth for humans are infancy, childhood, juvenile and adolescence. Let us register the key features of each stage:Infancy – complete dependence stageInfancy (derived from the Latin word infans, means “unable to speak”) is period of growth of human offsprings when they are completely dependent on their caregivers (e.g. parents, elder siblings, […]
It is pertinent here to digress a little to register the evolutionary root of the childhood stage and get a sense of the immensely organic linkage of the evolutionary path of humans and the (unique and long) childhood among humans. The level of complexity of the brain is such that it cannot take place in […]
