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 weight of the child increased approximately 3–3.5 times. And if in the first months the baby added 400–600 grams, then starting from a year his weight should increase by an average of about 200–250 grams per month. As a rule, he has mastered everything that a child should be able to: legs, walks, can try to run, holding hands, rises and descends the stairs, wears light objects with two hands - a plate, a doll, a ball, etc. By the year a child should have 12 teeth. But do not panic, if not all 12 have erupted. They will appear, it is important to provide a small balanced diet with enough 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 worthwhile to navigateon average of what a child should be able to per year. As a rule, the baby is able to express agreement and disagreement, understand the emotions of the parents and the word “not”, it is already possible to negotiate with him. The kid is already sensitively catching the intonation of the speech of adults. By this age, the child has the rudiments of the ability to generalize. For example, he calls the word “Lala” not only his doll, but also a girl met on the street in a pram, or the image in the picture of a small child or a doll. If he sees a crying child, he can, “summarizing”, join the weeping one out of sympathy. Some children may report by year that they want a potty. Year-old children are very interested in books. A child with pleasure shows animals, asks to turn the pages to see a new picture. A year, the baby perceives simple melodies, he has a sense of rhythm. He knows how to play ladies, “magpie-crow”, dance. During the first year of life, the child develops a good memory, at this time he easily remembers the names of objects, the names of close adults and children, likes to look out the window for the movement of people, animals and transport. Therefore, he knows the names of the objects around him, toys, clothes, face, body parts and knows how to show them. By the year a child should say 5–10 words: “mom”, “dad”, “woman”, “lala”, “give”, “af-af”, “bi-bi”, other imitations. If this is not the case, not hurry upset. It is considered the norm when: - girls start to speak earlier than boys, - vocabulary of 5–10 words appear in the crumbs in the period from 12 to 15 months - everything 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 have been such cases in the family.
One-year-old baby, as a rule, can already express disagreement
We continue to develop
To stimulate and support speechdevelopment of the baby, be sure to talk to him correctly, slowly and clearly pronouncing the words, without lisping. Comment on your actions ("Let's put on the jacket", "Now we wash our eyes, cheeks"), try to establish a dialogue with the crumb, keeping pauses so that he can respond, or show a mimic, gesture his answer ("Where is our spoon? Right on the table our spoon "). Read the baby as much as possible out loud, especially verses. Encourage you to finish the lines and praise for it. In the year a child can pick up and complete the familiar line of the rhyme. Teach him to blow, show how you fold your lips and blow (useful exercise for the correct pronunciation of the sounds of "c", "w", "h") For children of one year of age, games in which fine motor skills are involved are very useful. Such games contribute to 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 pans, studying the contents of packages and cans, be patient and don’t stop him. And if a child should be able to say 5-10 words a year, then by one and a half years his vocabulary the stock increases to 50 words. A crumb can do simple instructions from two teams: “take a towel and dry your hands.” A helpful article about
