Child Development

  • Birth

    Birth

    20 inches in length
    10inches inches in height
  • conception

  • 8 week  fetus

    8 week fetus

    the 1 1/2 inch-long embryo becomes a fetus.
    develops fingers,toes,eyes,ears, nose, a mouth, a heart , circulatory system.
  • Period: to

    3-4months

    infants 3months are fascinated with by their own hands and legs, easily amused by watching themselves open and close their fist
  • Period: to

    3 to 4 months

    objects out of the sight are truly out of their minds
  • 4months

    4months

    Turns from stomach to side
  • 4months

    4months

    Social Development
    infants develop specific attachments for mothers
  • Period: to

    4 to 8months

    Infants exploring cause-effect relationship
  • 6months

    6months

    the brain and body matures enables crawling and later on walking.
    turns from back to stomach
  • 6months

    Social Development
    attachment with developed at 4 months grow stronger.
  • 8months

    8months

    Infant is able to sit by itself
  • 8months

    8months

    Social Development
    Infants develop a fear of strangers. infants who experience stranger anxiety cry and reach for parents.. infants may even experience separation anxiety cases infants cry or behave in other ways that indicate distress if their mothers leave them.
  • Period: to

    8months-one year

    infants understand that things that have been taken away still exist
  • 9months

    9months

    Infant is able to crawl
  • seven years old

    seven years old

    most children enter the concrete-operational stage at about the age of seven. in this stage, children begin to show signs of adult thinking.
  • nine years old

    nine years old

    according to kohlberg, through the age of nine, most children are at the preconventional level of moral development . children who use preconventional moral reasoning base their judgements on the consequences of behavior