Introduction
Parenting, the environment, stress hormones, and other factors influence how a child’s brain develops. Children must be surrounded by care and attention from infancy since a positive environment is of great importance for how the child will develop later. In addition, family education is an essential factor in development. This paper will describe important factors that influence the development of the child’s brain.
Discussion
The primary purpose of education is to help form and develop the best natural inclinations of a person, to show individuality and independence of judgments, and to instill labor skills necessary for an entirely fledged life. The importance of raising a child is quite extraordinary because education introduces the child to the culture and gives the child the opportunity to enter a circle of people. Proper upbringing can develop a child’s self-respect and respect for people, courage, and creativity, creating prerequisites for their health and happiness. The development of a child is significantly influenced by upbringing, especially that received in the family (Berk, 2008). A child is born into a family and acquires initial knowledge about the world and the first life experience. The family performs certain functions: it provides the child with all the conditions for physical development and participates in forming their personality. In addition, upbringing in the family lays the foundations for moral behavior approved by society, instills a love for art, thereby forming creative interests, and educates the child.
The environment and what happens in it has a significant impact on brain development. Stimulation of brain development can occur due to various factors. These include positive effects that are carried out by the fact that the child sees new objects and receives positive emotions stimulating the favorable development of nerve fibers of the brain (Huttenlocher, 2002). Negative impacts, such as isolation from society or the mediocre attitude of parents towards a child, can harm brain development and disrupt it. In addition to the social environment that has a direct impact on the development of the brain, an important factor is also the environment in which the baby lives. That is polluted air, poor water quality, food, chemicals from industry, alcohol, and drugs that can affect the formation and development of a child’s brain. Since the brain develops over a long period and its development continues into adolescence, children must be surrounded by a favorable environment (Berk, 2008). That is negative factors that can spoil the development of the brain or disrupt it should be absent.
Adults should protect children from the influence of a negative environment, but hormones also play an important role in brain development. Often, the effect of stress hormones on the baby’s brain can lead to adverse consequences. Babies express their feelings by crying, which gives parents a signal that something is wrong. If a child remains dissatisfied, their body will produce stress hormones for a long time, which is dangerous for their health. At the same time, the child will gradually become irritable, get tired quickly, and lose weight, and the process of synapses will slow down in their brain (Huttenlocher, 2002). The branching of nerves, which provides communication between different parts of the cerebral cortex, will be disrupted if the child lives in such conditions.
Conclusion
In conclusion, many factors influence how a child’s brain develops. Nevertheless, one of the main ones is upbringing, the environment, and the absence of situations that can cause the production of stress hormones in infants. Each of these factors can lead to the incorrect formation of the child’s brain and, in general, to negative development. Starting from infancy, the child mustn’t experience negative emotions, is brought up in a family, and grows up in a favorable environment.
References
Berk, L.E. (2008). Exploring lifespan development. Pearson.
Huttenlocher, P.R. (2002). Neural Plasticity: The effects of environment on the development of the cerebral cortex. Harvard University Press.