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Child Development
Kaitlyn Rushton
Mrs. Cave-Mattie
Senior Project Paper
18 November 2013
Ages and Stages of Child Development Society tends to believe that children ages one to three, it's all about fun and games. Little do they know, a lot is going on throughout all those years. During the ages of one to three great changes are taking place. A child begins to transition from a dependent child to an independent child. Between those years, the child begins to move around. No other achievement has quite the same impact on the child's life according to Munsinger's book. Along with that we begin to see the child's cognitive, expanding social and linguistic abilities. Child Development refers to the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings, between birth and to the end of adolescence. As a mother or care taker they begin to see their child transitioning from, being very needy to being self reliant. The term for this would be autonomy. Autonomy is the state of existing or acting separately from others. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, behave, and move. Milestones are things that most children can do at or by a certain age. At the ages of one to three, children begin to develop social and emotional behaviors, they begin to communicate, and also start to show cognitive abilities which involve learning, thinking, and problem solving. According to Centers for Disease Control and Preventions states that social and emotional behaviors tend to vary upon the age of the child, for a two year old; they would begin to copy others especially dealing with adults or older children. A two year old will also tend to become very excited or happy when in the presence of another child. They also start to show more and more independence. Defiant behavior starts to arise; this is when the child begins to do what they are told not to. There is a strong individual variation among toddlers social and personal relations. Some children are

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