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Continued
- Cuddling and playing establishes a bond with the parents.
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The Newborn
Physical Development
- Reflexes are a huge step. Development of reflexs means proper growth and succesful development.
- Palmar reflex, Plantor reflex, babinski reflex, mord reflex, and walking reflex.
- Newborns start to lose body weight. Body features are starting to develope.
Social-emotional Development
- Babies have three cries they use to talk. Pain, hunger, or upset/boredom.
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Stages of Development
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The Infant continued.
- Instead of just seeing, hearing, and touching babies try to make sense of the world around them.
- By three months, the senses have developed some and can tell the difference in words.
- The babies began to piece together perceptions to form a picture. Social-Emotional Development 1.
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The Infant
Physical Development.
1. Babies double thier birthweight and triple their birthweight.
2. Babies move slowly because they mostly think as they move.
3. Motor development occurs from head to foot and center to the extremities.
Intellectual Development
1. In the first two months, babies begin in the multi-year development of learning voluntary gross movements.
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Continued
- Children are busy exploring and are active explorers and experiminters.
- Children look for the best way to achieve their goals. And will repeat till they acheive it. Social Development
- Parents must, hold, and rock babies lovingly. Toddlers start to find out more about themselves and the world around them.
- They learn that the world isn't solely devoted to meeting their needs.
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The Toddler
Physical Development
- Learning to control voluntary muscle movements.
- Their organ systems contiune to mature too. However, they do not grow as quickly as they did during the first year.
- Babies grow about as half much in height and weight.
Intellectual Development
- By the end of infancy, learning becomes much more advanced.
- Motor skills are highly linked to mental skills.
- Walking and other mother skills expand the child's physical and social world. -
The Preschooler
Physical Development
- Instead of growing larger, baby proportions change and organs mature.
- Throwing ability is improved. Body rotation and weight shifting.
- Will be able to use eating utensils, build towers, and draw.
Intelectual drawing
- They have better motor skills which help them interact with people better.
- They no longer rely on just their senses to move and motor actions to learn.
- Longer attention spans
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The Preschooler continued
- Are curently in the preoperational stage. Social Development
- They continue to relate socially with people outside their family circle.
- They start to think and act on their own.
- Start to show responsiblity and how to control emotions.
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School-age Child
Physical Development
- Balance is ahuge gain in both static and dynamic development.
- Walking, running jumping, and throwing all increase.
- Will start to lose baby fat and gain much needed muscle.
Intelectual Development
- School age children can think using abstract symbols.
- Thinking depends more on logic and less on perception.
- The child is now in concrete operational stage.
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School-age continued
- Learn to focus on more then one aspect at a time. Social Development
- Children's speech become more social.
- Children have mastered the grammer they hear.
- The social aspect of life becomes the most important part of their life.
