Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Pedagogy - Family Education,
grade: 0-8, Aga Khan University, language: English, abstract: Parents
are always dreaming of nurturing their child by providing stimulation to
their child for their holistic development. Though, parents are getting
awareness about their child's physical growth through routine checkups
and other medical implications. However, parents have little knowledge
about stimulation that will help their children for their holistic
development which includes social, physical, cognitive, moral, ethical
and spiritual development. Thus this paper is an attempt to explore and
share stimulation that parents can provide during the time of conception
till birth as the development of the child begins from the time when a
child is conceived. With this objective, this study discussed the
activities or stimulation that is required for the development of a
child in a holistic manner in each trimester. This study is a
qualitative research based on reviewing the available research related
to child development during conception time. In addition, survey with
parents that fall in each trimester was also done. Three parents from
each trimester that is first, second and third trimesters of pregnancy
had selected on random basis. The data revealed that role of parents;
Mother and Father both have significant impact on child's development in
terms of providing different stimulation at different levels. The data
also entailed that the development of child begins from the time of
conception which will remain and continue after the birth. At the end,
this research found that the basic social, cognitive, physical, moral,
emotional and spiritual development of a child depends on the
stimulation which they received during the time of conception till
birth. This study concluded by broadening the zone of research for the
child's development in holistic manner rather to be based on physical
growth only.
