Child development is a collaborative, vibrant, and unique process depending on the toddler. Every individual is unique, and as children grow, they adopt many things from other people and the environment that shapes their behavior and thoughts. Different cultures offer different inputs to children during growth, and this is the source of the vast cultural differences among kids globally. Language is one of the significant aspects through which culture affects development. Dialects predict how people reason and think when having conversations (Mchome et al., 2020). Mothers from different cultures communicate differently to their babies. For example, German mothers tend to focus on their children by attending to their needs and wishes personally significantly. African mothers are known to lay emphasis on the social context in the process of bringing up their babies. The form of early exposure that a child receives tends to reciprocate to how children respond to themselves and their surroundings. This is the basis of a child’s identity, where many kids are fond of describing their unique characters.
In many countries, poverty is tremendous stress for children and families that need changes to growth tasks. Children’s development tasks vary; for example, some people may consider the school achievement of a kid. Children from low-income families are at a greater risk of social and academic problems leading to poor health, translating into reduced academic performance (Iannotti et al., 2017). Families are the minor social units and also act as the mingling cause for kids. Many effects of scarcity on kids are results of direct family influence. Children from poor backgrounds have limited chances to quality education and are not able to have a responsive stimulus surrounding them. These families restrict their kid’s language environments since they use simple dialects dominated by a simple structure. Low-income families are fond of very harsh parenting surroundings based on overall parental controls rather than interactive strategies that enhance social and emotional development. The first few years of life involves the growth of phonemic awareness and skills for comprehension. However, only children from well up families receive a good upbringing that is major in the reception of vital childhood skills.
Effects of poverty vary from one family to another and from culture to the next. Children from low-income families do not receive enough protection considering that many members of the families cannot make good decisions (Iannotti et al., 2017). Parents who are better educated have more security over their kids because they have the resources in matters of finances and knowledge. Children from educated and affluent backgrounds receive almost everything at their disposal. This includes studying materials and assurance for protection from the effects of poverty. Families that live above the shortage line are more likely to involve their children in activities for cognitive growth. Several family features also have a significant influence on the link between child development and poverty. The social selection rule states that personal differences in parental characteristics lead to decreased income for the family, and this has a direct impact on child development. Parents full of virtues such as honesty, dependability, and integrity transfers these characteristics to children, and this confers protection even in poverty. Economic hardship in most families is the cause of much stress and affects the emotional life of parents, who in turn direct their feelings to the children.
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Mchome, Z., Bailey, A., Kessy, F., Darak, S., & Haisma, H. (2020). Postpartum sex taboos and child growth in Tanzania: Implications for child care. Maternal & child nutrition, 16(4), e13048.