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Essay on Child Development
Today, it is well established that early home experience in written language is related to later school literacy achievements. Parent-child interactions, parental pedagogical beliefs and beliefs concerning the child as a learner are assumed to be important aspects in this process.
Within the area of parent-child interactions, research indicates that parents strengthen their children’s literacy development when they engage in frequent and increasingly complex verbal interactions with their child; actively participate in joint book reading; ask questions that strengthen their child’s problem-solving abilities; engage in attentive and flexible interactions with the child; maintain a predictable environment through routines and responsive structure; and develop and maintain a secure attachment relationship with their child.
Parental guidance method has been defined as the relative amount of prompting that a child experiences or how often the child is asked--rather than told - what to do. In parent-child interactions, this include various strategies in which the parent provides more control through increased information and less choice.....
