Child Development

As I come to the end of another course on my road to mastery; I would like to share some quotes on child development to agree with my thoughts about the development of a child.  

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else--e specially somebody who's crazy about that child. 

Urie Bronfenbrenner

There's one basic rule you should remember about development charts that will save you countless hours of worry.... The fact that a child passes through a particular developmental stage is always more important than the age of that child when he or she does it. In the long run, it really doesn't matter whether you learn to walk at ten months or fifteen months--as long as you learn how to walk. 

Lawrence Kutner

Children allowed to develop at their own speed will usually win the race of life. 

Fred O. Gosman

  

All of these quotes can be found at Dictionary.com  http://quotes.dictionary.com/subject/child%20development,%20general?page=1

I would also like to add to this post my thanks and gratitude towards those that I have made acquaintance with during the previous eight weeks.

First to my instructor, Dr. Joyce Myers; I knew you were going to be an awesome instructor just by reading your name because I associated you with the well-known inspirational speaker Joyce Myers.  I am sure you get that all of the time.  You were very helpful and knowledgeable about child development and also pushed me to learn more by suggesting additional links for me to look at and comment on.   Thanks you for being patient with my mistakes in the beginning and for your correcting comments on the graded papers.  I hope that our paths cross again in the near future.

Now to my colleagues, you were all awesome and very knowledgeable about child development.  I was glad to see some of you from our first class and hope that we will continue on our journey toward mastery together.  Each week I learned something new from your discussion posts and/or blogs that you share.   I also appreciate your words of encouragement that you write in response to my postings.  Some weeks I am not sure of what I post-if others would learn something from it.  However, I always get such great responses that I get a boost once I read them.  That is why I respond to every response I receive on the discussion board.  I would like to encourage each of you to continue pressing on until you each reach your professional and educational goals.  Together we can all make a difference in the lives of children and their families. 

Thank you from you colleague, Janine Campbell