1) From birth to 5 years, children experience significant physical, emotional, social, language, and motor development. They progress from being helpless at birth to walking, talking, and playing with other children.
2) Key developmental milestones include smiling and recognizing faces in the first few months, babbling and grasping objects between 4-6 months, walking independently around 1 year, speaking in short sentences by age 2, and having a vocabulary of over 2,000 words by age 5.
3) Socially and emotionally, children develop attachments to their mothers in the first year, become wary of strangers, and begin playing cooperatively with other children between ages 2-5. Their emotional responses also become more complex
1) From birth to 5 years, children experience significant physical, emotional, social, language, and motor development. They progress from being helpless at birth to walking, talking, and playing with other children.
2) Key developmental milestones include smiling and recognizing faces in the first few months, babbling and grasping objects between 4-6 months, walking independently around 1 year, speaking in short sentences by age 2, and having a vocabulary of over 2,000 words by age 5.
3) Socially and emotionally, children develop attachments to their mothers in the first year, become wary of strangers, and begin playing cooperatively with other children between ages 2-5. Their emotional responses also become more complex
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Normal Stages of Human Development (Birth to 5 Years).
1) From birth to 5 years, children experience significant physical, emotional, social, language, and motor development. They progress from being helpless at birth to walking, talking, and playing with other children.
2) Key developmental milestones include smiling and recognizing faces in the first few months, babbling and grasping objects between 4-6 months, walking independently around 1 year, speaking in short sentences by age 2, and having a vocabulary of over 2,000 words by age 5.
3) Socially and emotionally, children develop attachments to their mothers in the first year, become wary of strangers, and begin playing cooperatively with other children between ages 2-5. Their emotional responses also become more complex
1) From birth to 5 years, children experience significant physical, emotional, social, language, and motor development. They progress from being helpless at birth to walking, talking, and playing with other children.
2) Key developmental milestones include smiling and recognizing faces in the first few months, babbling and grasping objects between 4-6 months, walking independently around 1 year, speaking in short sentences by age 2, and having a vocabulary of over 2,000 words by age 5.
3) Socially and emotionally, children develop attachments to their mothers in the first year, become wary of strangers, and begin playing cooperatively with other children between ages 2-5. Their emotional responses also become more complex
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Normal Stages of Human Development
(Birth to 5 Years)
Physical Emotional Social
and Language
Birth Feedings: 5-8 Generalized Helpless
to per daySleep: Tension Asocial 1 20 hrs per Fed by mother mont daySensory h Capacities: makes basic distinctions in vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, touch, temperature, and perception of pain
2 Sensory Distress Smiles at a Face
mont Capacities: Visually fixates at hs color a face, smiles at a to perception, face, may be 3 visual soothed by mont exploration, rocking. hs oral exploration.Sou nds: cries, coos, gruntsMotor Ability: control of eye muscles, lifts head when on stomach. Delight
4 Sensory Enjoys being Recognizes his
mont Capacities: cuddled mother. hs localizes Distinguishes to soundsSounds: between familiar 6 babbling, persons and mont makes most strangers, no hs vowels and longer smiles about half of indiscriminately.Ex the pects feeding, consonantsFeed dressing, and ings: 3-5 per bathing. day Motor Ability: control of head and arm movements, purposive grasping, rolls over.
7 Motor Ability: Specific Protests
mont control of trunk emotional separation from hs and hands, sits attachment to mother. Enjoys to without mother. peek-a-boo 9 support, crawls mont about. hs
10 Motor Ability: AffectionFear of Responsive to
mont control of legs strangersCuriosit own name.Wave hs and feet, y, exploration bye-bye.Plays pat- to stands, creeps, a-cake, 12 apposition of understands no- mont thumb and fore- no!Gives and hs finger.Language takes objects. : says one or two words, imitates sounds, responds to simple commands.Fee dings: 3 meals, 2 snacksSleep: 12 hours, 2 naps Anger
1 Motor Ability: Very upset when Obeys limited
years creeps up separated commands.Repeat to stairs, walks from motherFear s a few 1 (10-20 min), of Bath words.Interested years makes lines on in his mirror paper with image.Feeds crayon. himself. Dependent Behavior
1 Motor Ability: Temper tantrums Resentment of
years runs, kicks a (1-3yrs) new baby Does to ball, builds 6 opposite of what 2 cube tower he is told (18 years (2yrs) Capable months). of bowel and bladder control.Languag e: vocabulary of more than 200 wordsSleep: 12 hours at night, 1-2 hr nap
2 Motor Ability: Negativistic (2 Talks, uses I
years jumps off a yrs)Violent me youCopies to step, rides a emotions, parents 3 tricycle, uses angerDifferentiat actions.Dependent years crayons, builds es facial , clinging, a 9-10 cube expressions of possessive about tower.Language anger, sorrow, toys, enjoys : starts to use and joy.Sense of playing alongside short sentences humor (Plays another controls and tricks) child.Negativism explores world (2 yrs).Resists with language, parental stuttering may demands.Gives appear briefly. orders.Rigid Fear of insistence on separation sameness of routine. Inability to make decisions.
3 Motor Ability: Self-sufficient in Likes to share,
years Stands on one many routines of uses to leg, jumps up home life. weCooperative 4 and down, Affectionate play with other years draws a circle toward children, nursery and a cross (4 parents.Pleasure school. Imitates yrs) in genital parents.Beginning manipulationRo of identification mantic with same-sex attachment to parent, practices parent of sex-role activities. opposite sex Intense curiosity & (3 to 5 interest in other yrs)Jealousy of childrens same-sex bodies.Imaginary parent.Imaginary friend. fears of dark, injury, etc. (3 to 5 years)
4 Motor ability: Responsibility Prefers to play
years mature motor and guiltFeels with other to control, skips, pride in children, becomes 5 broad jumps, accomplishment competitive years dresses himself, prefers sex- copies a square appropriate and a activities triangle.Langua ge: talks clearly, uses adult speech sounds, has mastered basic grammar, relates a story, knows over 2,000 words (5 yrs)