Question

Imagine that you had to explain development to a group of new parents. Which mechanisms or processes do the seven theories offer to explain how children grow and change from infancy to adolescence? Which would be easiest to explain to new parents? Which ideas might be more difficult to explain or more controversial?

Answer 1

The stages of physical, cognitive, and emotional development that occurs from infancy through childhood and form the baseline of almost all theories of child growth and change from infancy to adolescence. In physical development the changes in size, shape, and physical maturity of the body, including physical abilities and coordination. This would be the easiest one to explain to the new parents as they will be able to relate with it. In emotional development  feelings and emotional responses to events; changes in understanding one's own feelings and appropriate forms of expressing them undergo changes like never before.Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. It would be the most difficult to explan to the parents as it has to do with innate traits and sometimes it may so happen that parents are unable to relate to their kids due to differences in thought processes, understanding and decision making abilities.