Social, emotional, and behavioural development
·At
6wks:
· starts smiling;
· becomes increasingly responsive
socially.
·At
10mths shows separation
anxiety when separated from parent and an
increased wariness of strangers.
·By
10mths begins to wave
‘good-bye’.
·At
8mths begins to start to
feed self using fingers.
·At
12mths will drink from a
cup.
·At
18mths uses spoon to feed
self.
·By
2yrs removes some
clothes and will soon start to try to dress self.
Very variable. Some children are
potty trained by 2yrs, but others can be much older when they develop this
behaviour. Night-time dryness always takes longer. 10% of 5-year-olds still wet
the bed at night.
·By
24mths children start to
copy actions and activities that they see
around them (e.g. feeding a doll, making tea, dusting, and cleaning).
·They progress in the 2nd year to
play on their own or alongside peers in parallel play.
·From
3yrs they start to have
interactive play, taking turns and following
simple rules.
Cognition refers to higher mental
function.
·Pre-school
children:
· thought processes are called
pre-operational; children are at the centre of their world;
· ‘magical’ thinking and play with
toys as if they were alive.
·Junior
school age: thoughts
become operational and thought processes are
more practical and orderly.
Teenage
years: formal operational
thought has developed including abstract
thought and complex reasoning.
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