Pediatric Milestones

Vocabulary flashcards covering the key pediatric motor milestones (4 months through 5 years), related movement terms, and the study skill of active recall.

4 MONTHS: “It’s 4 AM, you raise your head but this time you have more power behind it and its steadier and you wake up a little more, you propped your self on your elbows, you yawn, your reach over and turned off your alarm ,you give your alarm a side-eye and you give to your clock a big smile.

• Lift head in prone

• Push up to their elbows

• Hands to mouth

• Reach for toys/ objects

• Visual track objects

• Social smile

2 MONTH: “ Pop your head up and turn you head too look at the clock that is ringing”

• Hold head up

• Turn the head towards sounds

6 MONTHS: “It’s time to get up! You roll over, You grab your morning dount from your night stand and pass it to you other hand, then you bring it to your mouth and you give it a kiss, you sat up but you were sleepy so you use both hands to support your self, and then you slap your thighs because you want them to start going

• Roll-over

• Pass objects from one hand to the other

• Bring things to their mouth: toy to sock on

• Sitting w/ support

• Stand w/ support

9 MONTHS: “ You do 9 rep morning exercises, you get to the ground to start doing curl ups, then you move to push ups. Then after getting tired, you start crawling. Then, you use your bed to stand. While in standing, you are so sleepy that you need to hold into something. Then, you knock something gross off to the ground and you watched it fall. Then, you pick it up gin-gently”

• Going from laying down to sitting

• Sit unsupported

• Sit and reach for things

• Push up all the way up using forearms

• Crawling

• Pull-up to stand

• Stand while holding into something

• Track falling moving objects

• Pick small objects with thumb and index finger

12 MONTHS: “ You are so grossed out that you take it to the trash can, but you can only take 12 steps. You have to grab your self into something to feel more comfortable”

• Take a few steps unsupported

• Cruising

• Release objects inside in a container

18 MONTHS: “ You grab your diploma that you got when you were 18. Then, you remembered how scared you were about falling when walking on the stage but YOU DIDN’T! While you were stirring your cup of tea

• Walking w/o falling

• Use of spoon and cup

2 YO: “High/Low & Fast/ Slow”

• HIGH/LOW

  • Climbs up & down furniture

  • Walk up & down stairs

  • Jump off the ground

  • Stand on tip-toes

  • Build block towers

• FAST/ LOW

  • BEGIN to run

  • Kicking a ball

3 YO: “3-Easy”

• All 2-year skills become EASY

• Catches a large ball

• Pedal tricycle

• Dresses Min A.

4YO: “4-Coordinated”

• Stands on one foot briefly

• begins to skips/ hops

• Catch a bounced ball MUST of the time

• Pouring liquids w/ supervision

• Alternates feet climbing stairs

• Color within lines

5 YO: “High-Five Independence”

Independent with dressing and toileting