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Child Development Milestones
LO1 P.I.E.S

How your child learns, speaks, plays, moves and acts offers you important information about how your baby is developing. Development milestones are the P.I.E.S, physical,intellectual,emotional,social things that most baby can do by a certain age.

0-2 months

Physically at 0-2 months babies can hold their head up with little help from their parents as well as being able to swiftly push themselves up when lying on their tummy. They are able to make smoother movements with their arms and legs. Intellectually they are able pay attention to the faces that are shown to them. Your baby will begin to follow things with their eyes and they will be able to recognise people at a distance. At 2 months your baby will start to act bored ( cries a lot and is very fussy) if their daily activity is the same for a number of days. As for language they are only
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Emotionally at this age they would rather play with other children than by themselves.
Socially they like to cooperate with other children and is more creative with make believe play.

5 years old

Physically at the age of 5 years they can stand on one foot for 10 seconds or even longer, they can hop or even be able to skip. They may be able to do a somersault. In addition your child can use the toilet on her own.
Intellectually they can count ten items or more, can draw a person with at least 6 body parts maybe more. They understand the concept everyday things for example money and food.
At this age your child will be speaking clearly and is easily understood, they can tell a simple story using full sentences. They can uses past tense as well.
Emotionally they will want to please their friends and is sometimes demanding but is sometimes cooperative.
Socially they will like to sing, dance and act more, they will show more independence for example visits their neighbours but with adult

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