The Stage of Early Child Development
Executive Summary by Daniel D. Dwase
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| Early Child Development |
During the first year of early child development your baby
develops at an incredible rate, not just physically, but intellectually,
emotionally, even socially. Your baby was born with a certain amount of
reflexes, like sucking, grasping and crying. But within a few weeks of your
infant's development she will become more and more efficient at these actions
and gradually those reflex behaviors will be replaced by deliberate actions of
sucking, grasping and crying. Your baby is learning that if she sucks, she will
eat.
It's interesting to note that at 4 months
of age, your baby has yet to reach the stage of early child development
known as 'object permanence'; so when an object is out of his sight he has
forgotten about it (literally out of sight, out of mind).
By around 8 months a baby will look for a
toy he was playing with if it is taken out of his vision. This is why babies at
this age love dropping toys and watching you pick them up! They have figured
out that the toy has not disappeared when they drop it, and are thrilled to see
it reappear!
It is also at this stage of your baby's
early stages of child development that she loves to play peek-a-boo. Parent's
can test their baby's object permanence by sitting them in a high chair with a
toy. If you drop the toy on the ground and she looks down for it, then she has
grasped the concept of object permanence. If she doesn't look for it, then she
is not quite at that stage of child development at the earliest stages yet.
There are lots of fun games to play with
babies who are at this early child
development stage. Let your 10 month old baby see you 'hide' her toy
under a blanket. Babies at this stage also love to imitate the changes in your
face. Stick your tongue out, and watch her imitate the action.
Playing games like this with your baby is
an excellent way to spend quality time as well as a way to help develop her
grasp of object permanence.
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