Importance Of Physical Development

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Physical development is important because it includes movement skills, gross motor skills and fine motor skills. It is important that we provide space for the children and the support they need to be able to progress in their physical development. By 6 months a child will be able to turn their head to familiar sounds, look and reach for objects and smile at familiar faces and voices. From 6 months to a year a child will progress and move from sitting with support to sitting alone, they will begin to roll over from their tummy to their back and start beginning to move either crawling or shuffling and they will start to turn to face you when their name is called. When they are at 1-2 years they will start to feed themselves and start to walk …show more content…

At 2-3 years they will be able to pour liquids and be able to kick a ball and they will also be able to draw circular scribbles with a pencil. At 3-7 years they will be able to jump with their feet together walk up and down the stairs and they will start to climb with confidence and they will be able to thread beads onto a piece of string. By 7-12 years they are able to run, jump, skip and swing and they start to enjoy team games involving other children. When the children hit 12-19 years, boys usually start later then girls. At this age boys are starting to develop their deep voices, body hair and muscle growth. However girls start earlier, their body parts start to form quite early on and will be close to reaching their full adult height. Teenage girls will start to discover their periods which will also develop their mood swings and physical development such as weight change and achney.
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In 0-3 months the child will start to make various happy sounds and babies will start to …show more content…

Each of the aspects of development link together for example, if a child has a problem with communication this could result in having other problems in their social, emotion and bahviour development this is because they may not be able to communicate with other children such as if a child does not want to play with anyone and someone comes and joins in the child may get frustrated and start hitting or biting another child. Physical development can also link in with the social emotional and bahviour development because if a parent does everything for that child they may not know what to do or they may expect you to do it for them so this means that their physical development isn’t at the mark they should be. This then links into social emotional and behaviour development because at the age of 2 the child should start to want to put their own shoes on and off and get slightly more independent whereas if their physical development was at the mark then they are more likely to want to do it for

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