Stages of Social Maturity:

• Stage 1 (Child 3-8yrs) When you are younger you are usually more shy and want
your parents to be with you all the time. It’s hard for little kids to make friends
because they are used to always having their mom or dad around and they do not know
how to talk to others. Their feelings get hurt a lot easier and they take things a lot more
serious which limits their social lives. Little kids don't really like to share or be
around other kids because they are complete strangers and sometimes come off as
enemies.
• Stage 2 (Pre-teen 9-13) This age is the "awkward" age for most people. No one really
knows who their real friends are and just go with the flow. Around the end of
middle school you start talking to the opposite gender comfortably. You are kind of
restricted in middle school so you aren't really able to try everything you want to
which doesn't let you make a lot of mistakes. Since you don't make mistakes, you don't
get to mature as much. This is a confused age along with when you reach high school
you still don't really understand what’s happening.
• Stage 3 (Teen 14-18) When you become a teen you develop more feelings towards
other people. Your body begins to change and you can handle more tasks and challenges
more and more as you mature. In your teen years you have more relationships
such as boyfriends/girlfriends and friends. You want to make more friends and you
want to become social because if you don't have a social life you get labelled a "loser"
and a "loner." This is the time where you tend to make more mistakes and learn
from them so you can mature more. You have more opportunities and goals that
show how much you have matured throughout the past years.
• Stage 4 (18+ Adulthood) When you are an adult you are more independent and matured
then you were as a teen. Although you have a stronger understanding of life, you still
have a lot you could learn from. Such as getting married, having kids, and a stable job
can really affect how you mature. When you enter adulthood, you learn to respect
others no matter who they are or what age they are. Being an adult you know your limits
and when to stop, making you more responsible. After adulthood has come in on you,
you have basically completed your social maturity.
 Socio-economic status

Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the social sciences.
Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed, but most include some quantification of
family income, parental education, and occupational status. Research shows that SES is
associated with a wide array of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional outcomes in children, with
effects beginning prior to birth and continuing into adulthood. A variety of mechanisms linking
SES to child well-being have been proposed, with most involving differences in access to
material and social resources or reactions to stress-inducing conditions by both the children
themselves and their parents. For children, SES impacts well-being at multiple levels, including
both family and neighbourhood. Its effects are moderated by children’s own characteristics,
family characteristics, and external support systems.

The socio-economic status (SES) is a cohesive and reliable prognostic for the wide range of
lifelong term results, including physical and mental health. A child’s development depends on
biological potential (genetic factors), the environment, and the interaction between these factors.
The analysis of a person’s socio-economic environment distinguishes various groups of extra
familial and cultural modifiers, along with the level of urbanization in a person’s place of
residence. Another group encompasses intrafamilial factors, which are determined based on
parents’ level of education, their professional status, number of children in the family, and
financial and living conditions. The effect of these factors on children’s health is only indirect.
Consequently, neither the socio-economic status of a child’s family nor any of its indicators
directly affect the course of the child’s development. This effect may only be indirect, i.e., each
of the factors that contribute to the socio-economic status of a child’s family impacts certain
elements of the child’s lifestyle, and it is these elements that directly affect the development of
the child’s body.
A higher socio-economic status of a family allows for providing a proper and well-balanced diet,
a place for studying and resting, better medical care, and a hygienic lifestyle.

A low socio-economic status of a family brings such dangers as: an unfavourable income-to-
needs ratio (the income is insufficient to fulfil basic needs), low standard of residence, dangerous
and polluted neighbourhood, and limited access to good quality care and education, and related
family problems. Pre-school children are very exposed impacted by the consequences of poverty,
which cause problems with learning and behavioural disorders to a greater extent during early
childhood than in later life.

A child’s school readiness is analysed across multiple dimensions with respect to complex
determinants of ontogenesis. Whether these criteria are fulfilled depends on the appropriate
development in each sphere of a child’s development which is referred to as the harmoniousness
of development. Family environment is a significant factor determining the optimal course of a
child’s development in the pre-school period, and the favourable factors such as the
improvement of the economic state, proper nutrition, adequate hygiene and access to healthcare
cause the increase the pace of growth and development – a positive trend.

The cognitive development refers to all mental activities forms related to organising and process
information, that is those actions that correlate with the thinking process, therefore they embrace
intelligence and level of thinking.