How child development can be controlled: Part A.
One question parents often ask pediatricians, educators and health counselors is whether their child is within normal developmental levels for their age. To control the development of children, some developmental milestones have been formed.
What are development milestones?
Developmental milestones are things that a child can accomplish at a certain age. By average, children develop skills and abilities in almost the same order, however there may be differences in their time levels as each child is distinguished for different characteristics from other children.
Child development milestones
Milestones are divided into specific ages which are:
- Birth until18 months
- 18 months up to 2 years old
- 3 to 5 years old
- 6 to 17 years old
Hypothetically, a child’s development is usually completed shortly before adulthood.
Birth until 18 months
During the first 12 months of a child’s life, the child develops motor, cognitive, verbal and socio-emotional skills. More specifically, he shows interest in faces and sounds, recognizes them, puts his hands in his mouth and looks for things. He also tends to look people in the face and responds to their expressions and laugh. At the same time, he laughs, responds differently to the sound of each sound, cries in a different way when he needs something, and finally follows objects with his eyes, crawls and spins. Then by the time he reaches the age of 18 months he has already learned how to use basic objects, says “no”, greets, recognizes strangers and cries. Finally, he is standing and walking on a couple of steps holding objects around to keep him steady.
18 months up to 2 years old
The development of children at the age of 18 months is based on skills such as recognizing virtual things, obeying certain commands and recognizing oneself in the mirror. At the same time he can have fun listening to short stories and songs, help to get dressed, run slowly, dance, drink from a glass and eat with a spoon. At the age of 2 the child now has more skills. He matches the colors and shapes with each other, follows specific instructions, names simple things, asks simple questions, says the names of familiar people and finally throws light and small balls. The stages of later ages will be analyzed afterwards. Until then, learn information about child development and children’s skills through the “Kids Athletics” workshop of Base Training Katerina Zouganeli Source Cara F Dosman, MD FRCPC FAAP, Debbi Andrews, MD FRCPC, Keith J Goulden, MD DPH FRCPC, Evidence-based milestone ages as a framework for developmental surveillance, Paediatrics & Child Health, Volume 17, Issue 10, December 2012, Pages 561–568, https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/17.10.561 Seminars Recent Articles
