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What Is Growth and Development

Growth and development refer to the physical and mental changes that occur throughout life. Physical changes include increases in height, weight, and other bodily developments. Mental development involves learning new skills like walking, talking, building relationships, and coping with changes. The stages of development include conception, pregnancy, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death. During puberty and adolescence, a child's body transforms into an adult through physical maturity and sexual development.

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What Is Growth and Development

Growth and development refer to the physical and mental changes that occur throughout life. Physical changes include increases in height, weight, and other bodily developments. Mental development involves learning new skills like walking, talking, building relationships, and coping with changes. The stages of development include conception, pregnancy, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death. During puberty and adolescence, a child's body transforms into an adult through physical maturity and sexual development.

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What is Growth and Development? Figure. 1 The process of Conception.

Growth refers to the Physical Changes occurring in your body, as you grow older,
example, increase your weight and the height.
Development is how you try to deal and react to the Physical Changes – Learning
to walk, talk, relate to other people as well as coping with the changes.
(Social (Forming New Relationships), Emotional (Coping with feelings and
changes in life), and intellectual (thinking and learning in the school),)
 The characteristics of Growth and Development are;
(1) Growth: - Changes in weight increase, height increase, size increase, voice
change, hair growth in pubic areas.
(2) Development: -Acting appropriately, Value and beliefs, cope with feelings, 1. Egg released from ovary.
gain knowledge and reasoning skills, learning to talk, walk, 2. Egg enters Fallopian tube.
relate to people and cope with change.
3. Fertilisation occurs.
The five types of developments and their examples
4. Fertilised egg implants in
Developments Examples
the thicken wall of uterus.
1. Physical Development – Changes to your body including height, weight,
. hair growth, breast and what you can do with it
i.e. skill learning. Stage 2. Pregnancy.
2. Intellectual development – Learning to use your mind to gain knowledge Pregnancy is the stage of development where the embryo is fixed into the wall of the
and reasoning skills. uterus to grow.
3. Social Development – Learning to act and behave correctly, doing the (See figure 1.4)
right things. The baby goes through many development changes within the nine months that it is
4. Spiritual Development – Developing values and beliefs. in the mother’s womb. See the table below.
5. Emotional Development –Learning to cope with or handle your feelings Stages of Embryonic Development
and to deal with changes in your life
Two things that influence growth and development are:
(1) Heredity - genetic input passed on from your parents
(2) Environment - all the things that happen to you throughout life

Stages of growth and development


 Generally growth follows an orderly pattern. People follow a pattern of changes
throughout their lives even though the exact ages at which things happen at different
times vary.
 A person’s life cycle can be divided up into Nine (9) stages:
1. Conception. 2. Pregnancy. 3. Birth. 4. Infancy. 5. Child hood.
6. Adolescence and puberty. 7. Adulthood. 8. Old age. 9. Death.
Stage1. Conception:
Conception is the moment where the ovum/egg (female sex cell) and sperm (male
sex cell) join together. This is call fertilisation, (see figure 1.3.)This is where most of
the physical feature is decided-sex, hair colour, eye colour, somatotype (a person’s
body build) the moment of conception occurs in the fallopian tubes.
Stage. 3. Birth  Puberty and adolescence are the two stages of growth and development in
During this stage the baby travels along the birth canal to be delivered. human
The child birth process involves three stages, all of which may vary in length of time beings.
and intensity or force.  Puberty is the period when the child goes through a period of childhood
(Ⅰ) Labour: to
The mother experiences contractions (powerful feelings or sensations) that enable become an adult.
the baby to move down towards the cervix (uterine entrance). This stage may take up  Adolescence marks the time between the child and becoming full
to ten hours, however, the time varies.
adulthood.
(Ⅱ) Birth:
At this stage the baby travels along the birth canal to be delivered. The baby normally Adult
comes out head first. The feet first are known as a (breech birth). It is dangerous for Puberty
some mothers with the baby if mothers are unable to give birth naturally; in this case, Birth
women have a caesarean section where an incision (cut open) is made in the
mother’s abdomen (belly) through which the baby is delivered or born. 21
0 4 10 16
(Ⅲ) After Birth:
The delivery is not the final stage of the birth. After the baby is born the after birth,
made up of the placenta (the blood and nutrient-rich tissue that connects the mother
to the baby during the pregnancy) is expelled or come out of the woman’s womb.
Summary Notes
 Growth refers to the changes that are occurring or taking place within the body of a Infancy
young adult, for example the increase in height and weight, growth of hair and the
increase in the Knowledge. Development refers to how you deal with the changes
Stage
such as forming new relationships, coping with changes in life, doing difficult work. Child hood.
 The characteristic of growth are: Changes to your body include, height, weight and Stage
what you can do, learning new things and behaving correctly according to the
Puberty
accepted ways, using the mind to gain knowledge and reasoning, coping with feelings
and dealing with changes in life.
Stage
 Throughout life many things will influence growth and the choices you make. The Adolescence
two main influences are heredity and environment Stage
 Conception is the moment of fertilization that occurs in the Fallopian tubes. The
process involves: (1) Egg released from the ovary,
(2) Egg entering fallopian tube (3) Fertilization (4) Fertilized egg fixes to the thickened
wall of uterus.
 Childbirth involves three stages. All of which vary in the length of time and intensity:
(1) Labour. (2) Birth. (3) After Birth
 Multiple Births occur when a mother has two or more children. It can be twins,
fraternal twins or triplets

What is puberty and adolescence?

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