Babies: Emergence Or Negligence?

* 1 month - 2 Years - At one month Babies enjoy kicking their legs and waving

The age of nine months to a year, the infants can do a lot of things without help. They can sit up by themselves. Infants can stand up without the assistance of an adult. They can decide which toys to pick up and they can pick up the objects they would like to entertain themselves with. Infants can also sit unaided as well, they have built enough support for their neck to support their head weight

From 9 months – 3 years babies will learn to walk, run, jump and hop using their gross motor skills. They have more control over their movements allowing them to point, hold small objects using the fine pincer grasp and gain more independence in toilet training.

|6 – 9 months |At 6 months babies may be able to balance on the front of their bodies, sit-up and move slightly more |

A baby has to hold his or her head up, learn to sit with support, and then without support, before he or she can stand by holding on to furniture and then

|Physical |At 24months children can now run safely avoiding obstacles and are very mobile, this has developed from the unsteady first tentative steps taken at around 12 months. | |

Babies at this stage are able to crawl, sit without much support and therefore becoming

The child’s sitting up behavior falls within the specified age range of physical development. The appropriateness of a developmental toy then has to align with the developmental guidelines of physical development, so that the child would be interacting within the proper milestones. A key to playing and interacting with this toy is the ability to sit up; therefore, a child would be within the age range of sitting up, in order to make the toy and its main functions at least accessible to the child.

Children at this age are exploring climbing to get to things they may want e.g. moving chair to climb on and get things. They will try to peddle tricycles and use their feet if they find it too difficult. They will become able to walk up stairs using alternate feet. Their cutlery skills will increase and will star to use knife and fork possibly cutting softer foods for themselves. During this period children generally learn to potty train and are usually quite independent by 4

During this time period the child tends to have a lot of energy so they star to jump around and run, and they also discover new things they can do such as standing on one leg and hopping. From the ages 2-3 they also start t develop the thought of picking up a pencil and doodling. From the ages between the ages of 3-5 they develop the abilities of movement and balance which they learn how to throw and catch a ball and often start to ride a bike/tricycle.

Laura Schulz’s presentation, The Surprisingly Logical Minds of Babies, explores the idea of how babies and young children are able to learn so much in such a short span of time. In Schulz’s presentation, the viewers see multiple video experiments where she introduces babies to different balls and toys that make noises. I choose to explain and break down the first experiment, that she discusses. In the first experiment Schulz has a colleague reach into a bucket with mostly blue balls and a few yellow balls. The colleague pulls out three of the balls and when she takes each ball out she squeaks them. The colleague then pulls out a yellow ball and hands it to the baby. The child copies what Schulz’s colleague has done, but however the

From birth a baby can only lie on its back, by the end of 3months they start to lift their heads and kick their feet. At 3-6 months they can hold objects and transfer them from one hand to another. They also start to attempt to put objects in their mouths. At 9-12 months babies usually become more mobile by rolling, shuffling, or crawling. They can generally sit unaided for a length of time.

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