Unit 137 Child Development Analysis

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Sharon Williams Unit 137 Outcome 1 1.1: Babies young children and young people all develop at various rates, but the sequence in which they develop differs from child to child, as they need to develop and grasp one skill before moving on to another, such as walking before the progress to running. As our parents always said “you must crawl before you can walk”, this is not always the case as some children bum shuffle, then go onto pulling themselves up then walking and never really bother to crawl, this is how sequence differs. Development is often shown as a timeline of milestones, such as their first word, their first step, the timeline can be broken down into ages and stages. As development is more rapid in the early years of a baby…show more content…
| |EIGHTEEN MONTHS |They are coming up for the terrible twos and are showing signs | | |of defiance their favourite word being “no”, they go from being| | |an angel one minute to a devil the next. | |TWO YEARS |They are now able to be a little more responsive to other | | |people’s feelings, even though they may not completely | | |understand them. | |TWO AND A HALF YEARS |Children at this age are still emotionally and socially | | |dependant on family and carers, but also want to be independent| | |some of the time. They are beginning to develop an
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