Research the development milestones from birth - 19 years
For the following areas -
Social
Physical
Language
Intellectual
Communication
Emotional
Behavioural
moral
Social development
Interacting, talking, sharing, using manners, saying hello and goodbye, learning to take turns
Developing relationships and making friends with others, attachments with other adults, boyfriends/ girlfriends , emails, social media.
Physical
Gross motor skills - large movements - walking, jumping, skipping, hopping, climbing
Fine motor skills - threading, fastening coat, holding a pencil, scissors , tying shoe laces
Growth and puberty
Language - using the desired language spoken eg English - some children may have two or three languages
Babbling , gurgling, sounds, key words, small sentences, more complex sentences
Intellectual / cognitive - how you view the world and problem solving and logic - counting, colours, numbers , concepts - floating and sinking/ baking/ jigsaws
Communication
Language, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions, sign language , texting, social networking, emails, telephone, written communication.
Emotional - feelings of sad/ happy/ excited/ angry - children have got to learn to express their emotions and deal with these as a child reaches the ages of two they tend to have more tantrums as they can't tell you has they are feeling and a strong sense of mind!
Behavioural - learning to behave with others , share and learn that actions may hurt others - links closely to social and emotional
Look in your book - at front look at the chapters - "child and young person development "
You will find a large table which goes over many pages of development milestones from 0-19 years
Physical development
0-3 years
4-9 yrs
10-13 years
13-19 years
Communication and intellectual development Same as above ....