Discover A Handy & Very Useful New Baby Milestone Rule Of ThumbHere we'll be looking at the baby milestone and physical abilities and skills your baby typically develop at specific ages. But first...
What I like about using milestones is it gives me a Measuring Tool to understand how well a baby develops – compared to scientifically accepted standards. And it gives me the ability to know what skills my child should be developing at a specific age.
I also know that Nature helps me and my baby to learn and master a specific skill much faster if s/he learns it at the right time.
What Makes Milestones So Useful?2 Things make baby milestones useful, namely...
In short, you can quickly and accurate use this tool to tell how your baby develops. It’s a way of visually measuring and checking your child’s progress. Another visual aid to measure your baby's progress, is thebaby development chart. Also keep in mind, it's much easier for you to see that your child cannot, say, walk than it is to know that her hearing ability may be impaired. And in many cases the inability to master a specific noticeable skill also highlights the need for stimulation and attention in another more subtle area... should there be one. What Are The Major Physical Baby Milestones?Everybody usually talks about only 4 major physical development milestones, namely sitting, crawling, standing and walking. But I’ve been using 2 more milestones which are very clear “first targets” for your child’s development. These 2 are head control and rolling.
Of course, there are many other skills babies must master, but these 6 are the main easily noticeable ones.
For more information on what exactly your child should be doing month-by-month, please go to http://www.babydevelopmentnews/1styeardevelopment.html, or alternatively,click here for a more detailed baby milestone resource. Why Milestones Are Important for Future SuccessMany parents see milestones just as a few clear indications for a baby’s development. Or they have a number ofother erroneous beliefs. What most do not realize is that development of your child’s future physical, emotional, social and perceptual skills build on the ones developed now and in the past. Let’s look at a sketch to illustrate this:
During your child’s first 2 years, most noticeable development is in the area of gross motor skills like walking, standing, crawling and running.
During the next 2 years (from 2-4 years old), most of the gross motor development and skills should already have been mastered. So, the next main noticeable area of development is that of fine motor (hands and fingers) and perceptual (insight) skills.
From about 4 years on most noticeable development now takes place learning the skills to read, write and do mathematics.
Another important part of this sketch is that skills build on previously mastered skills. Like fine motor skills typically develop after gross motor skills have been mastered. What this means is that there is little point in stimulating and encouraging your child to master activities such as stringing beads while s/he can't yet walk or stand properly. At this age the main focus should rather be encouraging development of the gross motor baby milestones.
Let’s look at a typical example:
Easy-To-Use Baby Development PatternsThere is a pattern to baby development and therefore also baby milestones. Here is a handy "rule of thumb".
Here is how this rule of thumb works and how to apply it to baby milestones:
In the graphic Baby MilesTM shows that during the first 3 months (yellow) the main baby milestones are in the head-neck area. During the next 3 months a lot of development takes place in the upper body area (blue), followed by the lower body area during months 6-9. A lot of fine motor skills develop during months 6-12, while learning to stand, walk and run takes place from about 9-18 months. The Baby MilesTM development pattern gives you a quick visual means of checking baby milestones and other development. But the real value and power of this visual aid comes in when choosing age appropriate toys for any baby. Just check out the baby learning toys mentioned, and see how this can be used not only to check your child's development, but also to select the most suitable toys for her age. For more baby milestone information on this site, simply type what you're looking for, then press Search. Other useful articles related to baby milestones
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