Good child development…begins with the parent

Since they are born, every child has continuously, clearly, and very quickly developed so that parents are very excited with such development of their child. Most parents know very well about what should be appropriate child development in each period of the child’s age. What about the inappropriate child development? How do we know that?

Some children may have development that is different from other children. If parents could not observe this, they would not know about this fact and possibly think that the development of their child would be later developed. This misunderstanding is dangerous for the child because the child’s early development in various aspects is interconnected with each other. If any aspect of the child development is slower that the others or inappropriate with the child’s age, it will affect the other aspects of child development consequentially. Therefore, parents should understand both appropriate and appropriate development of children, according to their age, simultaneously.

Table for checking appropriateness of child development according to their age

Period of Ages

Appropriate Child Development

Inappropriate Child Development

Newborn

- Can move arms and legs
- Get startled and frightened when heard loud noise
- Cry when feel hungry and uncomfortable

- Move eyes to follow nearby moving objects

- Not get startled or cry when heard loud noise

- Cry without sound reason

1-Month baby

- Can lift head upright and nod the head
- Can babble within the throat
- Tightly grab the object placed in the hand

- Look for the source of noise and move eyes to follow the moving objects

- Cannot babble within the throat
- Often make cockeye

- Both eyes do not look at the same point

2-Months baby

- Can lift the head when lying on face downward
- Look for the source of noise
- move eyes to follow the moving objects

- Smile and make voice in the throat to respond

- No reaction when parent play with them
- move eyes to follow the objects that make sound or have colorful appearance

- Cannot pick up light objects

4-Months baby

- Can sit with supporting arms
- Smile to greet and smile more when want to express the pleasure

- Start to grab nearby objects

- Can use only one arm
- When hold to sit, the legs are powerless

- When walking, the muscles are hard and rigid (physiologic contracture)

6-Months baby

- Can roll over by themselves
- Can pick up objects with some weights
- Swap objects between both hand
- Can use finger to pick up objects

- Understand the language and can speak one-syllable word

- Repeatedly saying the same word
- Look away when talking
- When trying to pick up an object and put into the mouth, the object is always dropped
- Cannot roll over by themselves

- Not laughing

9-Months baby

- Can hold the rail, stand, and walk by themselves

- Can play and express more emotion

- Not express their emotion even when they are happy
- Like to point and ask to see the far-away objects

- Don’t like looking at parent’s faces

1 year old child

- Like to survey around
- Understand and cooperate in activities such as eating meals, taking a bath, and wearing cloths
- shake their head when want to refuse something

- Imitate animals’ voices and postures

- Isolate themselves and like to play alone
- Repeatedly act strange postures such as walking on tiptoe
- Cannot yet crawl
- Not walking, when being hold to walk

- Cannot yet call Papa or Mama

After parents have observed the development of their child and be sure that such development is not appropriate according to the child’s age, please do not hesitate to take the baby to see the doctor immediately in order to get the correct promotion of child development and get to know the method to improve the condition until it is appropriate with the child’s age.

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