Some
basic principles about understanding your child's Social
Emotional Milestones
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milestones are a set of functional skills or age-specific tasks
that most children can do at a certain age range. Your pediatrician
uses milestones to help check how your child is developing.
Although each milestone has an age level, the actual age when
a normally developing child reaches that milestone can very
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Although
each child is unique, there are predictable milestones along
the way:
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0-3 Months
- Infants
show distress by crying and flailing their arms and legs
- Babies
show their emotions by cooing, babbling, and smiling in
response to gentle voices, familiar faces, comforting and
feeding.
- Develops
a smile
- Imitates
some movement
- Enjoys
playing with others
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3-6 Months
- Enjoys social play
- Interested in mirror image
- Responds to other people's
expressions
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6-9 Months
- Prefers
primary caregiver
- They
show distress when separated from their familiar caregiver
- They
become angry when frustrated
- May
be fearful in some situations
- Establishing
predictable eating and sleeping routines
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9-12 Months
- Gradualy
learns to recognize and interpret the emotional expressions
of others and react to them
- Shy
or anxious with strangers
- Repeats
sounds or gestures for attention
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1-2 Years
- Can
differentiate people and can be affectionate to those whom
they know
- Demonstrates
increasing independence
- Imitates
behavior of adults and older children
- More
aware of self separate from others, they say NO to adults
- Begin
to engage in pretend play
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2-3 Years
- Can
take turns in games
- Has
a vague notion of time, but strugles with meaning of today,
tomorrow and yesterday
- Their
attention span is short
- Expresses
affection openly
- Objects
to major changes in routine
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3-4 Years
- Peers
are very important to children
- Can
interpret other people's emotions correctly
- Engages
in Imaginary play
- More
Independent
- Views
self as a whole person
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4-5 Years
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