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Newborn to Adolescent
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Physical Development of Newborn ( 1 month )
- In the first month a newborn with gain about 1.5 lbs.
- Newborns heads are about 1/4 of their entire body.
- Bones and skull are soft.
- Newborns face is broad and they have a flat nose
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Social and Emotional Development of a Newborn
- Newborns are quiet but alert in the inactive state.
- There are three main causes for crying a newborns form of communication.
1) Pain; Shrill Screen followed by silence
2) Hunger or Boredom; slow cry, becomes loud and rythmic
3) Upset; Fussy and sounds forced - You should bond with your newborn baby by cuddling, talking, and playing with them.
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Physical Development of an Infant ( 1st year )
-Infants change rapidly in the first year, most grow 1.5x their birth weight in the first year
-Boys are normally slightly larger than girls as infants
-Around 9 months infants become chubby because fat tissures have increased under the skin
-Infants may start to try to grasp things they want -
Social and Emotional Development of Infant
- You may begin to tell an infants temperment
- Babies enjoy being around other children such as siblings, to watch and learn
- A key part of social development is learn to trust
- Infants start to show attachment towards their caregivers in the first year
- Babies start to show emotions such as love, fear, anxiety, and anger.
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Intellectual Development of an Infant
- Infants gain perception, or begin to compare how things are alike and different.
- The brain starts to develop motor and vision centers, as this happens infants are able to grasp things and see clearer.
- They try to start solving problems to achieve what they want (ex. push a box in order to reach a toy)
- They learn by imitating what they see other do.
- Infants communicate by crying, cooing, and babbling. First words may begin in the last three moths of the 1st year.
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Physical Development of a Toddler (1-3)
- Bones and teeth continue to harden
- Large muscle development occurs which aid in movements such as walking and jumping
- As toddlers gain motor skills they are able to manipulate or use smaller objects, a pencil or paint brush
- Eye-Hand coordination begins to develop throughout the Toddle stage
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Intellectual Development of a Toddler
- Find new ways to solve problems
- Start to think about what they do before they do it
- Begin to learn grammar rules
- Wiring for language in the brain is very active in toddlers
- Toddlers actions involve working towards a goal
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Social and Emotional Development of a Toddler
- Toddlers begin to gain self-awareness
- Autonomy as a toddler builds on their motor and mental skills
- Toddlers emotions are becoming stronger and more apparent than when they were infants
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Physical Development of a Preschooler (3-5)
- grow at a slower rate than toddlers
- legs grow rapidly compared to other parts of the body
- heart rate starts to slow and become steady
- may start loosing baby teeth
- baby fat starts to disappear as preschoolers grow taller
- Preschoolers have better balance and reaction time is slower
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Intellectual Development of Preschooler
- Begin to do mental thinking to solve problems and form mental images
- Are very Egocentric
- Start to develop concepts about attributes ( size, shape, and color)
- Preschoolers intend for their drawing to actually mean something instead of just scribbles
- Are starting to be able to classify specific objects
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Social and Emotional Development of a Preschooler
- Have iniative, which sets up ambitions for the future
- Learn gender roles
- Develop emotional dependency ( Being comforted, and accepted)
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Physical Development of a School Age Child
- begin their growth spurts
- height increasese steadier than weight
- Boys are normally bigger than girls until girls hit puberty/growth spurt
- Six year molars come in
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Intellectual Development of a School Age Child
- Begin 3rd stage of Piagets mental ability called concrete operational stage
- Start to use deductive reasoning
- May be able to understand different point of views
- Learn hierarchial classification
- Learn to correctly pair visual and auditory stimuli
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Social and Emotional Development of a School Age Child
- Become aware of thier short comings and failures
- Show social awareness
- Are better able to control their emotions and express them verbally
