Key milestones act as checkpoints in a child’s development to determine
what the average child is able to do at a particular age
Key Milestones
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Wants to Win
Care for Younger Sibling
Right Time to Enforce Strict Discipline
Fostering Empathy
More Milestones
- The child can catch small balls.
- She can manipulate scissors and small tools.
- Can now express ideas clearly.
- Likes to tell jokes.
- Language becomes a tool to express even negative emotions and thereby physical outbursts reduce.
- Can count numbers up to 200 and count backwards from 20.
- Memory is organized and continuous.
- Wanting to win and tweaking rules for the same persists.
- Emotional sensitivity to criticism, blame and punishment also persists.
- The child acquires a sense of humor but may not understand sarcasm.
- This age marks the beginning of empathy.
- An understanding of what others might think and feel starts developing.
- May enjoy being with their peers more although still prefer children of the same gender.
- Can begin to understand time and the days of the week.
- Has a good sense of balance.
- Has a strong desire to do things well.
- Starts to empathize with other children’s feelings.
- Still learning how to accept criticism.
- Has a ‘black and white’ view of things.
- Start to understand the value of money.
- May have trouble getting along with some children.
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Children usually follow the same pattern of development and it is good to have reassurance that your child is developing normally in their own unique way. Talk to a doctor or a child health nurse if you have concerns regarding child development.
Watch out for these red flags and talk to your doctor to be reassured that your child is developing in their own unique way
- Has a stutter or lisp when talking. Stuttering is a speech problem that makes it hard for children to speak smoothly. This is when a sound is stretched out – for example, ‘Aaaaaaaaaaand I want that one’.
- Children might also do nonverbal things when they stutter. For example, they might blink their eyes, grimace, make faces or clench their fists.
- can’t skip, hop or jump
- Is aggressive with other children seems to be afraid of going to school, or refuses to go to school (your child might complain about headaches or stomach aches when getting ready for school).
- can’t get dressed or undressed independently
- Experiencesdaytime wettingor soiling
- Still has regular night-time wettingat eight years.
- Difficulty in learning letters and common sight words.
- Not able to build a tower of more than 6 to 8 blocks.
- Poor coordination and movement .ex: feeding, kicking a ball , dressing independently.
- Difficulty in telling story with sequential events
- Does not follow simple verbal instructions.
- Not able to express emotion or initiate conversation.