Child development is the study of how and why children change over time. The most common way of describing it is according to chronological ages. The various developments that take place during the life span of an individual can be classified :-
- Physical and motor development
- Social development
- Emotional development
- Cognitive development
- Language development
Physical Growth & Motor development of Children Up to 3yrs of Age
Growth during toddlerhood, though not as fast as in the first year of life , is still fast compared to the later years of childhood. By the time of second birthday, toddler’s ae half as tall as they will be as adults.
The following table gives the average height and weight of normal healthy children between 1 to 3 years of age. However, as you know by now there are individual difference in the rate of growth and there may be considerable variation among children of the same age with regard to their height and weight.
Also its give tentative idea for mothers or caregivers to refer and can consult their physician at the time of examination.
| Age | Weight ( Kgs ) | Height ( Cms ) | ||
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
| 1 Year | 9.5 | 9.0 | 75.0 | 72.5 |
| 2 Years | 11.5 | 11.0 | 85.0 | 83.0 |
| 3 Year | 14.0 | 13.5 | 94.0 | 92.0 |
With increase in height and weight , the body proportion of the toddler also changes. The head increase in size and account for one forth of the children’s height at two year of age.
The brain continues to develop rapidly. During toddler and later , they increase in size and become well connected and more specialized. These development of the brain are of great importance s they allow the child to have greater control over the movements and add speed and accuracy to the gross and fine motor skills.
Play Activities for Gross physical and motor developments
Here we are going to share few activities which can be taken place indoor or outdoor by parents or care giver . If you are working parent than you can instruct or plan these activities via your care giver.Its always better to plan activity so that its help tiny minds to be engaged and excited both.
- Games of running , Chasing ,Crawling and jumping :- Kids gets engage in play activities that involve running , humping and chasing. Their enjoyment is evident as they run hop , skip and jump from one end of the room to other and same way in outdoor from one point to another.
Here you can play Chasing shadow game as parent or nanny run ask the child to chase the shadow or her. Chasing shadow becomes even more exciting when the tasks are to step on one’s own shadow.
But how do you play this game when there is no direct sunlight? As an alternative , you can try the following game. Put the handkerchief in child and other person pocket so that a part of it is hanging out. Child have to chase each other and try to pull out the other’s handkerchief, while protecting their own.
Same game can be played when there are more than one kid like children play date or any festival gathering at home.