Based on extensive (personal) research, here are a few of these important stages child development experts may have missed.

Born in Switzerland in 1896, Jean Piaget is considered one of the most influential psychologists to date. “Piaget is widely known as a developmental child psychologist who explored the ...

Piaget believed that teaching should provide rich experiences for students to explore and discover on their own.

Erikson, who died in 1994, theorized that personality is developed through eight different life stages, later called Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. Knowing what each stage is ...

We move through 4 stages of development: dependence, counter-dependence, independence, interdependence. Each stage has its own characteristics and challenges, but it is possible get stuck at a ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves ...

Associative play is a fundamental stage of a child’s development when they begin learning simple social skills, like how to interact with their peers at playtime. It’s their first stage of ...

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