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Immediately after the child is born, they have these abilities.
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As soon as the baby is born, they are able to grasp a finger so strongly that they can be lifted into the air!
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As soon as the baby is touched anywhere near its mouth, it will automatically move its head to where the direction of the touch came from. The infant is able to swallow milk, suck, and breathe easily.
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Newborns are able to look at their body and surroundings very easily helping them recognize and navigate.
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Children enjoy learning with patterned materials the most and checkerboard patterns.
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When children are born, they are able to remember faces and familiarize themselves with others faces.
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As the years go on, children develop immensely between birth and two years old. Weight, height, and supporting the body all come into play.
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Infants weigh about 7-8 pounds at birth. By the end of the first year, they gain about 20-25 pounds!
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When born, they measure 18-22 inches and grow very fast, especially up until two years old.
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At two months old, children can raise their head to 45 degrees and roll over as well. In the future, children can sit with support at 5 in a half months, at 7 in a half months can pull themselves to a standing position, at 9 in a half months can walk holding onto an object, at 10 months can creep, at 11 in a half months can stand alone, and at 12 months can walk on their own.
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The child uses symbols, sounds, and grammar to understand.
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Symbols can be songs, animals, and everyday items. Children learn by others repeatedly saying these things so that they memorize them and have that label to them.
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Certain sounds of words and letters stick with children. “Ball” usually sounds like “Ba”. They slowly accumulate knowledge of the full word but the start of it is just understanding the sound the word makes when spoke.
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In order for the child to learn words and pout sentences together, they must learn the grammar of it. Multiple sentences can be flipped around and mean the same thing, however, they must make sense for the child to learn correctly. For example, “The dog ran outside yesterday” can not be spoke as “Yesterday ran outside the dog”. However, it can be spoken differently as “Yesterday, the dog ran outside”. It all depends on how the person structures their sentences.
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Creating this timeline helped me understand the way newborns grow to young children. I never knew the process of how they learned language and was always asking my parents about it. Children are so complex and it is critical to teach them in a certain time period so that they absorb as much information as possible. Learning more about newborns learning process made me fall even deeper into wanting to work with young children as a career in the near future.
