How Does Physical Development Affect Children

Children grow up rapidly from being a newborn to an adult in just a blink of an eye to parents. Children go through a process that that makes them who they are as they develop into a mature person. They start slowly developing their muscles as they discover the way to control it from their legs to their fingers. They go through a physical development from being able just to move their feet, when they are newborn with no control to being able to control it while they are toddlers. Physical development is related to growth in size, strength, and muscle coordination according to the definition of the book The World of Children. Physical development focuses on gross motor skill and fine motor skills on children while they are growing up from newborn

As they are growing they are developing their muscles skills they start with their gross and fine motor schools stated in the video “Crawler to Toddler: Baby Instructions”. Gross motor development helps children to gain muscles in the larger part of their bodies such as their legs. The legs are an important part of their body that a baby would need to be able to crawl then be able to walk. With a baby being able to crawl it is time for them to explore their surroundings by using their gross motor skills to be able to move anywhere they want and be able to navigate themselves where they want to be. Gross motor skills will eventually help children develop their physical appearance and reinforce their gross motor skills more stronger as their fine motor skills This development of gross motor skills leads to fine motor development of the smaller muscles in the baby body for example using their hands and fingers to be able to grasps

It helps children gain their muscles in their hands while they hold things to put in their mouth or even clapping. The text book The World of Children the author asserts the words palmar group, pincer grasp, and tripod grasp to define the stages of fine motor skills in the early childhood development. In the palmar grasp the child grasps with their fingers and thumb an object when they are barely exploring the objects which is frim 4 to 5 months. For the pincer grasps they use their thumb and opposite finger and they are around 10 months in this stage. When they are a around a year or older they go into the tripod grasps which is the learning of holding pencils by using fine motor skills to be able to write. This helps shape the fine motor skills that later they can use along with their gross motor skills to be able to walk from crawling and from scribbling in paper to writing with a