2. Understand the kinds of influences that affect children and young people’s development

2.1. Describe with examples the kind of influences that affect children and young people’s development including:

Background
Health
Environment

BACKGROUND Nationality

Class

Ethnic heritage

Family Structure

Nationality
Nationality in a child background can be very positive for them because they can and should be proud of who they are and start to learn and know about what there nationality is such as the rich culture and other aspects means to them it should give them a sense of belonging . Some of the negativity that they will learn about there nationality could make them ashamed and unwilling to learn about anything more about there nationality.

Class
A child will not take much notice of class but as they get older it will become more and more apparent to them about class in there society. Some positive about children knowing there class status is that they can take a sense of pride in knowing that they are privileged to have what they have. The negative aspect of a child knowing there class in society is the bullying factor and status its comes with such as a child who may live in a family with less money then most family’s around the area wouldn’t be able to do what some of the other children are able to and other children may pick on them for this aspect .

Ethnic Heritage
Ethnic heritage is a big thing in child development it can be a great aspect as well as a hard aspect to deal with. Positive things about a child learning about there heritage is that they can learn who they are they come from. A negative aspect is that there could be a backlash from some people just for who they are.

Family structure
Family structure is very varied in every family and it works in many ways a positive aspect of having a strong family structure can come in many different forms and shapes and each is just as nice and wonderful as the other. Some negative aspects of a family structure is a family that isn’t working well and the negative aspects of the relationship will be affecting the children in many ways that will be hard to sort out if not addressed straight away .

Health

Dyslexia

Autism

Physical health

Dyslexia Positive attributes to all these health problems just because you have a health problem it doesn’t mean you can’t achieve amazing things in life. Negative attributes to having some of these health issues are that a child will have a number of weeks of from time to time. They may not be able to catch up.

Autism
There are many different types of autism and can vary in each child the health risk also vary. They may not speak be able to speak to well they may not always respond to there names. But on a positive aspect they will make ways of bringing the world around them work for them.

Physical Health A child with physical health problems may experience there health go up and down but with each off there struggles they will conker it and become stronger little people for it.

Environment

Housing

Area resides in

School

Housing

A child’s housing situation can cause a lot of influence on there development because if they don’t have a stable home and being moved from pillar to post they will never feel settled they may feel stressed un-cooperative