Does your baby develop in time?Photo: Getty Images A year has passed, and your baby has grown from a helpless, tender lump into a fully formed little man. Ended the period of infancy. The child is still at the beginning of the path, but how many stages of development he has passed, how many have learned!
Physical development
The child's weight increased approximately 3-3.5 times.And if in the first months the baby gained 400-600 grams, then starting from the age of one, his weight should increase by an average of about 200-250 grams per month. As a rule, everything that a child should be able to do at one year old, he has mastered: he confidently stands on his feet, walks, can try to run, holding a hand, goes up and down the stairs, carries light objects with both hands - a plate, a doll, a ball, etc. By the age of one, the baby should have 12 teeth. But do not panic if not all 12 have erupted. They will appear, it is important to provide the baby with a balanced diet, which will have a sufficient amount of calcium, phosphorus and vitamins.
In a year, the baby already has a sense of rhythm. Photo: Getty Images
Mental and emotional development
When evaluating these parameters, it is worthfocus on the average indicators of what a child should be able to do at one year. As a rule, a child can express agreement and disagreement, understand the emotions of parents and the word "no", you can already negotiate with him. The baby already sensitively picks up on the intonation of adults' speech. By this age, the child has the beginnings of the ability to generalize. For example, he calls not only his doll "lyalya", but also a girl he meets on the street in a stroller, or an image of a small child or doll in a picture. If he sees a crying child, he can, "generalizing", out of sympathy join in with the crying. Some children by one year can say that they want to go to the potty. One-year-old children are very interested in books. The child happily shows animals, asks to turn the pages to see a new picture. At one year, the baby perceives simple melodies, he develops a sense of rhythm. He can play patty-cake, magpie, dance. During the first year of life, the child's memory develops well, at this time he easily remembers the names of objects, the names of close adults and children, loves to look out the window at the movement of people, animals and transport. Therefore, he knows the names of the objects around him, toys, clothes, faces, body parts and can show them. By the age of one, the child should pronounce 5-10 words: "mama", "papa", "baba", "lyalya", "dai", "af-af", "beep-beep", other onomatopoeias. If this is not the case, do not rush to get upset. It is considered normal when: - girls begin to speak earlier than boys, - a vocabulary of 5-10 words appears in the baby between 12 and 15 months - it all depends on the individual characteristics of the child's development, - in families where there is a predisposition to delayed speech development, it is inherited. An experienced speech therapist, when working with a child who does not speak, will always ask if there were similar cases in the family.
One-year-old baby, as a rule, can already express disagreement
We continue to develop
To stimulate and support speechbaby's development, be sure to talk to him correctly, slowly and clearly pronouncing words, without baby talk. Comment on your actions ("Let's put on a jacket", "Now we'll wash our eyes and cheeks"), try to establish a dialogue with the baby, pausing so that he can answer, or show his answer with facial expressions, gestures ("Where is our spoon? That's right, our spoon is on the table"). Read to the baby out loud as much as possible, especially poetry. Encourage him to finish the lines and praise him for this. At one year old, a child can pick up and finish a familiar line of a poem. Teach him to blow, show how you fold your lips and blow (a useful exercise for the correct pronunciation of the sounds "s", "sh", "z"). For children of one year, games that involve fine motor skills are very useful. Such games contribute to both the ability to work with hands and the development of speech. And since during this period the baby is actively exploring cabinets - sorting through things, rattling pots, studying the contents of bags and jars - be patient and do not stop him. And if a child at one year old should be able to pronounce 5-10 words, then by one and a half years his vocabulary increases to 50 words. The baby can follow simple instructions from two commands: "take a towel and dry your hands." Useful article about
