There are no significant detrimental effects on a child’s social or emotional development if their mothers work during their early years. Fathers’ involvement is associated with a range of positive outcomes for children including educational and emotional attainment, and protects against later mental health problems.

By studying children, we can learn more about why they develop the way they do and also the most effective ways to help them to develop as responsible citizens with positive contributions to make.

Parents and caregivers offer their children love, acceptance, appreciation, encouragement, and guidance. They provide the most intimate context for the nurturing and protection of children as they develop their personalities and identities and also as they mature physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially.

How can parents and caregivers promote early learning?

• Reading to your child , beginning when she or he is born.
• Pointing out and talking with your child about the names, colors, shapes, numbers, sizes, and quantities of objects in his or her environment.
• Listening and responding to your child as he or she learns to communicate.
• Practicing counting together.

Here are ideas to encourage brain development:

• Play. Play is a wonderful way to help a baby or toddler’s brain develop. Play might be a game, talking or singing to actively engage your child’s brain.
• Comfort. Babies can feel stress.
• Read. Reading is one of the best ways to promote a child’s brain development.

Growth is defined as an irreversible constant increase in the size of an organ or even an individual cell. Put differently, growth is the most fundamental characteristics of living bodies accompanied by various metabolic processes that take place at the cost of energy. The processes can be anabolic or catabolic.