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Walking development [38] Young toddlers (12 months) have a wider midfoot than older toddlers (24 months). The foot will develop greater contact area during walking. Maximum force of the foot will increase. Peak pressure of the foot increases. Force-time integral increases in all except the midfoot.
Three month olds with depressed mothers show significantly lower scores on the Griffiths Mental Development Scale, which covers a range of developmental areas including cognitive, motor and social development. [167] Furthermore, interactions between depressed mothers and their children may affect social and cognitive abilities in later life. [168]
Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development.It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others. [1]
It peaks from six to 12 months [2] but may recur afterwards until the age of 24 months. [3] As a child gets older, stranger anxiety can be a problem as they begin to socialize. Children may become hesitant to play with unfamiliar children. [1] Foster children are especially at risk, particularly if they experienced neglect early in their life. [1]
Talking is the next milestone of which parents are typically aware. A toddler's first word often occurs around 12 months, but this is only an average. [23] The child will then continue to steadily add to his or her vocabulary until around the age of 18 months when language increases rapidly. He or she may learn as many as 7–9 new words a day.
The incidence and quality of physical activity education in early childhood education have a strong positive effect on the cognitive, social and physical development of young children. [12] Early childhood is a stage of rapid growth, development and learning and each child makes progress at different speeds and rates. [13]
physical development; personal, social and emotional development; The four specific areas: literacy; mathematics; understanding the world; expressive arts and design; The Early Years Foundation Stage sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It ...
Around 15 months, the child develops the capacity for symbolic representation and language, and becomes capable of creating complex abstract mental representations of experiences, facilitating intersubjectivity but shifting the child's focus towards those things that can be represented and communicated in language.