Best Cognitive, Physical, and Psychosocial Activities for Children

The Child Development Community Center
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The Child Development Community Center
Introduction
A child development community center should have fun, interactive, and educational activities for infants, toddlers, early childhood, middle to late childhood, and adolescence. Indeed, it facilitates children’s growth physically, mentally, intellectually, and emotionally. Young people develop a sense of belonging and learn things that are useful in their childhood and adulthood. In addition, a child development community center enables children to build proper social relationships that support their physical and emotional development. Proper psychosocial, cognitive, and physical activities should be developed for each group. The primary purpose of this proposal is to recommend the best cognitive, physical, and psychosocial activities for infants (0-1 year), toddlers (1-3 years), early childhood (3-6 years), middle to late childhood (7-12 years), and adolescence (13-18 years) in the newly founded child development community center.
Infant (0-1 Year)
Physical Activities
Infants transform from floppy-head newborns to small people capable of sitting and playing when supported. An appropriate age activity for infants is baby sit-ups. When a baby gains sufficient head control, a caregiver should lay the baby on her back with their hands under the child’s arm and slowly guide him into a sitting position. Parents should repeat the process regularly as the baby gains strength and muscle tone by holding the baby’s hand and gently bringing him to a sitting position. Infants’ muscles strengthen when used frequently. Later, the baby sits in a tripod position and uses one hand to support themselves as their strength develops (Fletcher, 2020). After good practice and tripod sitting, babies will start sitting up without their parents. Baby sit-ups help them become stronger since their bones and connective tissues charge gravity. As such, they become more robust as their body weight increases.
Cognitive Activities
Reading is among the best activities that should be available in the child development community center. Reading books with an infant is among the best methods that develop cognitive growth since it enables them to hear different terms and observe images. Colorful pictures and new words inspire the brain. Parents and caregivers should use cloth books and ensure they point out images. Additionally, they should allow the babies’ fingers to touch the texture as they describe the pictures (Thomas, 2018). Reading promotes motor development since the babies’ eyes focus on pages of the book while they use their hands to pat pictures. Reading is a crucial cognitive activity for infants since it builds skills in multiple development aspects such as language, social connection, cognition, and fine motor (O’Neill, 2020). Other crucial cognitive activities are singing, reciting rhymes together, playing with puppets, and holding and dropping balls. 
Psychosocial Activities
Based on Erik Erikson’s human development theory, people pass through eight developmental stages from infa...