Early childhood development through innovative social media applications

Early childhood development is the most integral element to build the good foundation of children’s physical, metal, social and emotional abilities. In early years of development, each child form different patterns of habits which will continue years later in his or her life.

In 2009, UNICEF has organized workshop to know that how young children learn and develop, what role parents and families can play to support early childhood learning and development and the role of innovative media in effective childhood development. The workshop has highlighted that “learning through play” is the key element. Playing is a multi facet element and it helps in creating distinct abilities in children.  Children games help them to understand the social values and develop skills.

From many other recent researches it is also unfolded that learning through play develops sense of self-esteem and behavior to some extent. That is the reason, researchers have suggested to pay attention in developing the link between the world and the child. Children who have availed early childhood development are more likely to establish their strong personality and get success in their life.

Researchers have explicitly revealed that parents, trainers, and media all have to play their role for stimulating the holistic development of the children from childhood. In this regards many early childhood training centers are established. They have employed trained teachers for developing the holistic abilities in children. Innovative media has also played a central role in making the children learn with fun. Baby TV, Pogo, Nickelodeon and Disney channel all are focusing to stimulate the early childhood development. In fact, the smartphone companies like Apple, Google etc. have launched many apps for the children holistic development. 

There was a time when parents stop their children from the excessive interaction with media. But, these days parents themselves remain in search of ECD apps for the children. They know how ECD applications are planned and developed for helping the parents in developing abilities in children. ECD app market is open for many developers. Social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. are the hub of many users. Parents and pre schools also interact with each other at this social platform. Thus, social media applications for early childhood development are quite famous.

Application developers for the social media sites have considered developing the Facebook Application, Twitter apps, Yippee apps etc for early childhood. Here are some suggestions on which application developers can make their ECD apps.

1.      Photo based book app: Photos are the best way to develop the cognitive ability in the children. Photo based book app will be quite helpful for children to gain information about world. This app will help be quite supportive to develop children’s senses through manipulation and observation.

2.      Me and My dad app: Fathers play a vital role in early development of children. Children grow much confident and healthier under the supervision of their dad. These types of social media apps can help children to develop strong bound with their fathers.

3.      Me and My mom app: Love and care are the two personality aspects associated with mums. Social media apps can be built to make child learn about this relationship.

4.      Explore world app: Curiosity is the part of children life. They love to explore the things and take initiative to interact with the world. For infants, different natural elements, like bubbling water, mountains, flying birds, shinning sky etc can be added in this app.

5.      Fear reduction app: Fear is that element of children’s personality which no parent wants to have in their child. Thus, social media apps can be created on this issue. They can be prepared to eliminate the fear in children and give them positive feel about the things. Most of the children have fear from doctors, darkness, bath, thunder etc.

Now, it is the responsibility of social media app developers to address the suggested list and give something unique to the parents. This will help early development of child and will also let them reap huge monetary benefits.