CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Child Development



Child Development

Child Development

Children develop skills in five main areas of development: cognitive development, social and emotional development, speech and language development, fine motor skill development and gross motor skill development. A developmental milestone is a target achieved by a child in a particular time frame. Child development starts from the point when a baby is born, opens his eyes to see the wonderful world around him, cuddles in the arms of his mother and is ready to face the different challenges that he will come across as he gets bigger. As a new born we cannot expect much from a baby, but as time passes he works his way out of the whole system. In a few months he is ready to turn sides, roll over and then lying on his stomach (Carolyn, 2006).

Hence one of the major milestones i.e. raising his head while lying on the stomach is achieved. After this as the neck and back are strong enough, a baby would start to sit and reach out hands to touch things and finally ready to crawl. Crawling is a very difficult time as the child is on the go for the very first time; he is independent enough to move from one place to another hence exploring the different parts of his house. Walking and running are also very difficult times as the child is still young to decide as to what place he should go in and what he should not. But when a child starts to walk he is ready to conquer the world climbing up furniture and jumping from the sofas are all examples of developing physically (Carolyn, 2006).

Meanwhile these physical activities are taking place a child is also developing his mental, social and motor skills. A child starts to nod his head for a yes or no, he might smile at you or frown at you, could get angry with you or ask you for something in his own ways. But as they grow older they start to talk and pick up all what you say to him or what two adults are talking about with each other so we need to be very careful as the children are definitely copy cats at this age. And finally when they start school it's their time to make friends, learn new ideas taught by their teachers, come across new and exciting games which ...