Child Development Chart Normal Developmental Behaviors

1 Child Development Chart Normal Developmental Behaviors Cognitive Psychological Motor Moral Sexual 0-6 Recognition of mother; no Attachment to mother/ Sucking; hands clenched/ None. Erections possible; both concept of past or future; caretaker; totally dependent; grip; neck muscles sexes can be stimulated. Months reaches for familiar totally trusting; learns develop; pulls at clothing;. people or toys intimacy. laughs/ coos. Objects can be held in Separation from mother; Rolls over; stands with None. Generalized genital play. memory; learns through begins to develop a sense of sup-port; creeps/crawls;. routines and rewards; self; learns to get needs met; walks with help; rolls a recognizes name; says two trusts adults; stretches arms to ball in imitation of adult.

2 6-12 to three words besides be picked up; likes to look at pulls self to standing Months mama and dada ; self in mirror. position and stands imitates familiar words. unaided; transfers object from one hand to the other; drops and picks up toy; feeds self cracker;. holds cup with two hands; drinks with assistance; holds out arms and legs while being dressed. Experiments with physical Early social Development ; Creeps up stairs; gets to Fear of authority Continued generalized environment; understands egocentric; accepts limits; standing position alone; figures. genital play. the word no ; comes develops self-esteem (love walks alone; walks 12-18 when called to; recognizes from family); plays by self. backward; picks up toys Months words as symbols for from floor without falling.

3 Objects (cat meows); pulls and pushes toys;. uses 10 to 20 words, seats self in Child -size including names; chair; moves to music;. combines two words such turns pages two or three at as daddy bye-bye ; a time; scribbles; turns waves good-bye and plays knobs; paints with whole pat-a-cake; makes the arm movement; shifts sounds of familiar hands; makes strokes;. animals; gives a toy when uses spoon with little asked; uses words such as spilling; drinks from cup more to make wants with one hand unassisted;. known; points to his or chews food; unzips large Cognitive Psychological Motor Moral Sexual her toes, eyes, and nose; zipper; indicates toilet brings objects from needs; removes shoes, 12-18 another room when asked. socks, pants, sweater Months (cont.)

4 Can conduct experiments Autonomy struggles; learns Can run, throw ball, kick Knowledge of Continued generalized inside head but limited to system of meeting needs; ball, jump; goes up stairs preferences of genital play; early sex-role experience; rapid language seeks adult approval; social with one hand held by authority figures. Development ; interested in growth; copies adult Development increases; points adult; turns single pages; potty behavior ; touches and chores in play; carries on to things he or she wants; snips with scissors; holds rubs own genitals, conversation with self and joins in play with other crayon with thumb and disinhibited no sense of dolls; asks what's that? children; shares toys; takes fingers (not fist) but may privacy; role playing to 18-36 and where's my ?

5 ; turns with assistance; ignore adults as they draw understand what adults are Months knows 300 words at 2, 900 separation anxiety common since they must doing, such as playing words at 3; understand a (look for lack of separation concentrate; uses one doctor. lot more than what they anxiety in children who have hand consistently in most can say; gives first name; endured trauma) activities; rolls, pounds, holds up fingers to tell age; squeezes, and pulls clay;. combines nouns and verbs uses spoon with little mommy go ; refers to spilling; gets drink from self as me rather than by fountain or faucet in- name; Egocentric: dependently; opens door assumes you know what by turning handle; takes he/she knows; likes to hear off and puts on coat with same story repeated; may assistance; washes and say no when means yes.

6 Dries hands with Cannot incorporate a doll to assistance. represent themselves, but can use other objects in play that represent real life. WIDE RANGE OF Can cooperate; cannot separate Swings/climbs; uses small Self-esteem Generalized genital play LANGUAGE SKILLS AT fantasy from reality; has scissors; jumps in place; dependent on (rubbing genitals until raw THIS AGE. nightmares; models on same- walks on tiptoes; balances authority figures; is not Normal ); masturbation Can conduct experiments sexed parent; experiences and on one foot; rides a follows peers' fads; to orgasm in females is 3-5 inside head; cannot se- copes with feelings (sad, tricycle; begins to skip; negotiates to get possible; early Years quence; understands some jealous, embarrassed) but they dances; bathes and needs met.

7 Rules experimentation;. abstract concepts: colors, are all or nothing, meaning a dresses; runs around very important. watches/asks about body numbers (but this DOES Child can be angry at their obstacles; walks on a line; Protective of parents. functions; private parts and NOT mean they can tell parent one minute but once pushes, pulls, steers funny but also serious;. you how many times the parent apologizes feeling wheeled toys; uses slide gender identity established. they can count tangible shift and all is good again; independently; throws Cognitive Psychological Motor Moral Sexual objects in a room, like plays and interacts with other ball overhead; catches a chairs, crayons, etc.), children; dramatic play is closer bounced ball; skates.

8 Knows shapes, time (NOT to reality, with attention paid to jumps rope; pastes and clock time but days, detail, time, and space; plays glues appropriately; skips before/after, naptime, dress-up; Symbolic on alternating feet;. bedtime ); understands representation of self begins buttons and unbuttons family relations (baby/ (can now use a doll or picture large buttons; washes parent); can tell a story; to represent themselves). hands independently;. has a sentence length of 4 blows nose when 3-5 to 5 words; has a reminded; uses toilet Years vocabulary of nearly 1000 independently; drawing words; names at least one improves and by 4 will (cont.) color; under-stands trace and draw stick tonight, summer, figures. lunchtime, yesterday.

9 Knows his or her last name, name of street on which he or she lives and several nursery rhymes; uses past tense correctly; can speak of imaginary conditions I. hope ; understands basic concept of right and wrong punishment centered; at 4 can typically grasp truth vs. lie, but may confuse the difference between a lie and a mistake. Can think using symbols; Early close peer relationships; Is increasing small muscle Has a conscience; Defenses reduce experimen- can recognize differences; presence of well-developed motor skills; cuts foods refinements in moral tation, but some continues. makes comparisons; can defenses; develops identity with a knife; laces shoes; Development . Play house ,wedding, family take another's perspective; outside family (school, dresses self completely; role play games.)

10 6-9 defines objects by their friends); has likes and dislikes ties bow; brushes Years use; knows spatial (food, friends, games); chooses independently; crosses relationships like on own friends; plays simple table streets safely. top, behind, far, and games; plays competitive near ; knows address; games; engages in cooperative identifies penny, nickel, play with other children dime; knows common involving group decisions, role opposites like big/little ; assignments, fair play. asks questions for Egocentrism crumbles . Cognitive Psychological Motor Moral Sexual information; distinguishes suddenly question how others left from right; able to think of them. 6-9 separate fantasy from Years reality; improved (cont.) sequencing of events.