There are many examples that show how different aspects of development can impact one another. In majority of cases, one aspect will lead to another as a natural result, so for example, if a child has a speaks foreign language as his/her first and family just came to UK to live, this may lead to having language barrier, he/she may become shy, not very communicative, isolated, which affects emotional and intellectual development, further, he/she may have difficulty making friends, which can weaken his/her self esteem, affecting social and behavioral development.Another example may be if a child was not planned in the family, the parents were too young and addicted to alcohol and did not give him/her that much love.
If no doctor or social worker is present to discover that, then the child may be very quiet, closed in his own world, affecting his/her emotional development, and intellectual as well, because in such situations children very often don't want to learn anything, they “forget” about homework, they simply will do everything to get more attention and love.In future this child may have difficulties forming friendship and relationship, may feel lonely, desperate, angry on the whole world... hich affects his/her social development.
When a child is disabled this can affect his/her physical, social and intellectual development. For example if a child is in a pushchair until 6 years old, then changing on wheelchair, not being able to walk, the first thing he/she discovers is that he/she cannot run with other children in the fields, he/she feels sad, may want to stay more at home with Mommy (not to see his/her colleagues walking), he/she may read more books at home then, learning more and more – which will affect positively his/her intellectual development.But his/her home isolation means that he/she has only one friend, his/her Mum, which will affect his/her emotional and social development. Another good example may be siblings in a family like mine when I was little – I have a younger brother, and when we were teenagers, it meant different cultural rules for us because I was a girl and he was a boy.I remember that he could go everywhere alone, and I couldn't, I was spending more time at home, reading, as a result I love learning new things, I love studying – this definitely had impact on my intellectual and social development, I had some problems making friends, I was lucky my problems finished when I started studies and moved to my Grandma, but what could happen if I didn't have another place to go? A teenager like me could then isolate himself at home, becoming smarter and smarter on computers, internet, he could become a hacker and was arrested, transferred to prison,which would affect his social and emotional development very much.
When a child is extremely overweight – we know obesity among children can disrupt their physical development and have further impacts. This child is struggling doing sport exercises when going to school, other children may bully him/her for that, leaving him/her feel embarrassed and shy, withdrawn. Also changing clothes in front of others may be embarassing, which may result in not wanting to take part in Personal Exercises, affecting his/her health and maybe onset of puberty as well – your diet can have impact on level of hormones.If it starts later than with peers, he/she may isolate him/herself because of that, resulting in low self esteem and sometimes depression. I recently read an article in polish newspaper – it was a letter from a woman like me who was bullied in primary and secondary school because she had very big breast and overweight.
She is still struggling to form a relationship now, being in her 30ties. That was a very sad letter, her obesity very much affected her emotional, social and behavioral development.
