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Physical development

During early childhood development parents can monitor the weight, height, and motor skills of the child. I agree that the growth that we see physically relates to what people cannot see, such as cognitive and brain development. As a child develops, the brain promotes exploration and movement that result in new brain cells' growth (Simpkin, et al., 20). Children develop many new connections between brain cells as compared to adults. Parents play a vital role in the development of a child. When the parents bond with the child, they feel safe, push harder, and reach out more. Parents help the children develop physically by encouraging them to grasp and reach, teaching them to ride the bike, and holding their hand when they take the first step.

I agree that parents should promote a healthy lifestyle for their kids. This includes providing a balanced diet, get adequate sleep and stay active physically. Between the age of two to three, the children stop using wide-legged robot-like stances. They can hop, jump and run. During this age, children can be able to play throwing and catching games with larger balls. A child should climb the stairs between three to four years by putting both legs together on every staircase before moving to the next stairs. Toddlers may still require some support to avert them from falling while climbing the stairs.

Between the age of four and five, children can climb up and down the stairs first in the grown-up fashion. As children grow, their speed increases (Papalia, et al. 30). Children between five and six years old can move quickly and ride bikes with training rolls for extra support. In addition, kids who are around this age start to develop new kinds of physical games like a sliding, swinging, see-saw, and jungle gyms. They can even start jumping ropes as well as skating. Most of the kids of this age enjoy playing games organized, such as basketball and swimming.

Children between the ages of five and six often like to participate in physical extra curriculum activities such as dance, karate, and gymnastics. Adolescence begins between the age of ten to eleven for ladies and eleven to twelve for men. Between the five and seven years, old children show the necessary skills for starting and excelling in schools, such as creating shapes such as squares and triangles, writing letters and numbers. During the adolescence stage, cognitive, physical, and social-relational changes occur. Moreover, during puberty, women, and men experience a rapid increase in height.

References

Papalia, Diane E., Sally Wendkos Olds, and Ruth Duskin Feldman. A child's world: Infancy through adolescence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.

Simpkin, Andrew J., et al. "The epigenetic clock and physical development during childhood and adolescence: longitudinal analysis from a UK birth cohort." International journal of epidemiology 46.2 (2017): 549-558.