Baby Care Tips for Caring for a Newborn (Bernardina Prins)

Child development is a concern for all parents; in fact, many parents worry as to whether their child is experiencing the normal stages of child development. Because childhood development encompasses mental, emotional, social, physical and language abilities, tracking developmental milestones is a great way to ensure that your young one is growing at a healthy rate.

Early Child Development: One to 12 Months

The first year of a child's life is an important one in her development. In fact, your little one will go through many important development milestones during this time.

From one to four months, your child will cry, laugh, frown and smile. In addition, she will also make cooing sounds in order to express her emotions and communicate with you.

Once your child is five to eight months old, she will be able to put together single syllables (phonemes); this language development continues from nine to eleven months, when your child will continue to babble and also gesture meaningfully.

At 12 to 14 months, your child might say his first word.

Your baby will probably start crawling at from 6 to 10 months. On average, babies start to walk from seven to eight months or from around the one year mark.

Early Child Development: Preschool Development

At 3 years of age, childhood mental development continues to become more sophisticated. Your child will have an increased attention span and will also be able to match similar objects such as circles and squares.

Improved social and emotional abilities linked to preschool development means your child will be able to express her emotions, as well as learn to distinguish between herself and others using the correct pronouns.

The last stage of early child development is the five-year mark. Preschoolers at this age will know the difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow, and will also begin to establish more friendships. Improved physical and motor skills means that your child will have better overall body coordination. Language development also continues to develop at this period of early childhood development, and children at this stage will have a vocabulary of 13 000 words.

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