AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Infant (12 months) - ✔✔Can walk with 1 hand held
Fair amount of speech-says a few words but understands many more
Tripled their birth weight
Head and chest circumference are equal
Self-feeds
May hold crayon/pencil and mark on paper
✔✔Infant nutrition - ✔✔Rice cereal 4-6 months
Fruits, veggies 6-8 months (veggies 1st, not as sweet)
Introduce one new food at a time
No eggs, strawberries, wheat, corn, fish, honey, before 12 months.
Start offering cup around 8-9 months, bottle should be gone by 12 months
No whole milk before age 12 months; limit juice-high sugar
Rice cereal and some solid foods- between 4 and 6 months of age
Rice cereal helps stretch time between feedings
Fruits and veggies 4-8 months
DO VEGGIES FIRST SINCE THEY ARE NOT SWEET!!
Introduce one new food at a time- three days in between each food to get them used to
the food and to see if there are any allergies
It may take up 10 times before the child knows if they like the food
✔✔Toddler (15 months) - ✔✔• Can crawl up the stairs
• Can walk by themselves
• Parallel Play-typical toddler behavior-2 toddlers playing side-by-side but not socially
interactive
✔✔Toddler (18 months) - ✔✔Real change in appetite
Beginning to gain real control over urethral and anal sphincter
Spoon to mouth without rotating it
Drawing
,Turn pages on a book
Walk up stairs if holding their hands
✔✔Toddler (24 months) - ✔✔May be ready to start daytime bowel/bladder
Watch for cues to see if child ready (holds urine during night, hides in corner to
void/stool, etc)
Use calm, relaxed approach when potty-training
Can walk up and down stairs alone
Birth weight quadrupled
Babinski reflex gone by 24 months
✔✔Toddler nutrition - ✔✔Seems like toddlers hardly eat at all-can be concern for
parents but is normal
Offer variety of nutritious foods several times daily, 3 meals and 2 snacks
1 tablespoon of food per each year of age
16-24 oz milk daily, limit juice due to high sugar
✔✔Preschooler (3 years) - ✔✔Night time bowel/bladder control
Can ride a tricycle
Can go upstairs alternating feet
Love to talk
Can Copy a circle and other simple objects
Can identify a picture that you draw
Vocab almost 1000 words, uses short sentences
✔✔Preschooler (4 years) - ✔✔Length has doubled
Can use scissors
Can copy a square
Can draw three part stick figure
✔✔Preschooler (5 years) - ✔✔Hop, skip, throw ball, jump rope, roller skate
Can tie shoes
Better at using scissors
Knows letters, numbers, and colors
✔✔Preschooler nutrition - ✔✔Similar to toddler
Food jags- wants to eat one item over and over and over (chicken nuggets, mac and
cheese, etc. for breakfast, lunch, and dinner)
3 meals, 2 snacks
Limit juice
5 servings fruits/veggies per day
Encourage good dental habits
✔✔School age (7 years) - ✔✔Can perform ADL's
Are helpers
, In terms of play boys play with boys and girls play with girls
✔✔School age (8-9 years) - ✔✔Can count backwards and understands reversibility
Can dress themselves
Once excited it is hard to calm them down
May be hard on themselves about school
Can really play sports and understand the rules
✔✔School age (10-12 years) - ✔✔Early changes in puberty
Tanner Staging regarding puberty development
Boys are a little chubbier
Adult posture, lordosis curve is gone
Use telephone and call friends
Much more responsible
Growth spurts-usually in girls at around age 10-11; boys around age 12-13
✔✔School age nutrition - ✔✔Nutritional needs increased with growth spurt
Help choose nutritious foods
Good dental care encouraged
✔✔Adolescence (12-18 years) - ✔✔View themselves as grown up
Can be impulsive and not think situations through
Believe that they are invincible
Believe things can not happen to them
Nutrition:
At least 2000 cal/D during growth spurt (boys may need 3000!)
Encourage them to make good food choices (avoid fast food, energy drinks, etc)
✔✔Trust V. Mistrust - ✔✔Birth to 1 yr
Meet basic needs-food, clothing, touch, comfort
✔✔Autonomy V. Shame & Doubt - ✔✔1-3 yrs.
Control!
Gaining independence
Potty-training
Saying "NO"
Directing motor activity
* If criticized for autonomy or lack of control , will develop shame & doubt
✔✔Initiative V. Guilt - ✔✔3-6 yrs
New activities and ideas
Interested in exploration
*Criticism leads to guilt & child to feel lack of purpose