Early Childhood Development

Motor Development for 3+ Years

Gross Motor:

Walking backwards

Ascending and descending stairs foot over foot

Pedal tricycle at 3 y/o, steering tricycle at 4 y/o, full proficiency at 5 y/o

Advanced Motor Skills:

Running, Jumping, Throwing, Hopping, Catching, Galloping, and Skipping

Functional Skills Development for 3+ Years

Self-feeding using fork, pours without spilling

Self-dressing by 3 y/o

Complete dressing and undressing by 5 y/o

Potty trained by 3 y/o

Brushes and flosses teeth thorougly by 5 y/o

Cognitive Development for 3+ Years

Beginning of primitive reasoning - starting to figure things out

Confident of knowledge without an understanding or explanation for knowledge

Language Development for 3+ Years

Appear to pply innate morphological rules to language

Learn to apply rules of syntax

Developing pragmatic language

Social Development for 3+ Years

Children begin to express and understand emotional language

Improved self-control by 5 y/o

Able to distinguish themselves from others in concrete, physical descriptions

Egocentric and unable to understand cause and effect but beginning to consider other’s viewpoints

Distorted view of self, over state skills and capabilities

Play with others at 3 y/o, strong emotional relationship at 4 y/o, and cooperative play at 5 y/o