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Good day everyone, how are you all doing over here, somehow training a child to grow in virtue might seem to be a little bit of hard course because parents some times feel children need to explore more than how the did during their days, so in this contest, permit me to also air my opinion on Child Development.

Child Development to me refers to every phase of physical, emotional, psychological and mental growth of a child into adolescence. Before a child gets into adolescence phase, the child has to groomed to psychologically, mentally, socially and physical fit for whatever adolescent holds, this is more of like a preparatory phase to a child, this means if the guardian or parents fail in this stage, then adolescent stage will be a little bit of hard nut to crack.

The entire growth phenomenon will be incomplete if parents decides to instill good moral conduct in a child for instance but fail to also make them grow in brilliance but naturally and academically. So child development should embody every aspect of growth as listed above without none being left behind.

There are so many factors that influences child development and I will be categorizing them into two factors; Physical factors and Biological Factor.

• Environment: The physical environment where a child is being raised can influence the child either negatively or positively, for instance, a child who is raised in a typical ghetto has every tendency to be making use of vulgar words and engage in incessant activities than the one not raised in trenches.

• Peer Pressure: A child easily emulates what he or she sees, so the friends and companies children keep can either make or mar them. Some kids venture into ill activities because they have seen their friends or age mates do.

• Parental Background: It is very easy for a child to grow up to become a beast in as much as the parents are also exhibiting beastly behaviours. Lets take for instance, a child who is raised in a family whose parents are always fighting eachother, they will have no other choice than to also be displaying what they have been seeing their parents do.

• Genetics: Some attitude children display are some times hereditary, maybe from the parents or great grand parents, this pass through their DNA, this is as well as their physical and emotional intelligence. A study shows that 70% of a child intelligence is being inherited from the mother, so let's say the mother is very slow to doing things, this means the child has a probability of growing slow.

• Family History: Some attitudes and characters exhibited by children are somehow traced back to the family history, this biological factors has a lot to play especially when it has to do with our future financial life, this basically play a big role in knowing ones fate, a new study has shown that if one has a rich family history, there is a high tendency that one will be rich, or if there was a hardened criminal in the family, there is also a possibility that in the nearest future, the new generation will become one.

There are a lot of games that helps build up the intelligence of a child and I will be mentioning few here;

• Scrabble Words

• Puzzle

• Building plastic bricks

• Spelling Spree

• Talking with kids AI

Parents have a very big role to play when it comes to choosing their children's companies especially at a very tender age. Parents should be kin enough to sieve out friends who easily use vulgar words and distance their kids from them, these type of friends will corrupt their children's social and moral manners.

However, while parents are doing this, they should ensure they are not doing in a manner there children will not start nursing hatred against other kids that doesn't suit their moral and social standards, with this, the children will still interact with other kids but in arms length.

I am inviting @uduak01, @emily08 and @unyime23 to participate in this contest.