Sometime ago, I regularly received periodic newsletter based on my free subscription with Brainy-Child.com. If my faint memory can be rely on, the former website is based in Singapore. Basically it caters for parents & Early Childhood Educator by providing some insight in latest discovery in all aspects of children especially in brain development & early child development.
Here's some checklist if you feel like assessing your lil ones. Read on!
Here's some checklist if you feel like assessing your lil ones. Read on!
Birth to 2 years old
The following checklist is a rough indication of what you may want to look out for after your child is born up to 2 years of age.
- Ability of recognize carers early (within a few months after birth)
- Early expressions eg. smiling
- Unusual alertness
- Interest in books (turning pages before 1 year of age and paying attention when read to within 6 months)
- Unusually active & high levels of energy (but not hyperactive)
- Playing with shape sorters by about 11 months
- Ability to form two word phrases by 14 months
- Ability to understand instructions by 18 months
- Ability to say & understand many words before 18 months
- Could stay still & enjoy a tv programs (eg. Barney) by the age of 1
- Has favourite TV Shows / VCD /DVDs by age 1
- Appears to require less sleep (yet not sleepy or irritable due to lack of sleep)
- Recognition of letters / alphabets by age 2
- Recognition & rote counting of numbers 1 - 10 or higher by age 2
- Recognition of colours by age 2
- Recognition of first word by age 2
- Interest in puzzles by age 2
- Has long attention span in interest areas by age 2
- Ability to form at least 3 word sentence by age 2
- Interest in time by age 2
2 to 4 years old
The following includes most skills in the checklist above
- Early & extensive language development & vocabulary, forms grammatically correct sentence as compared to peers
- Interest in computers (not video games)
- Ability to solve a 20-piece puzzle by age 3
- Has a vivid imagination (includes having imaginary friends)
- Extraordinary feats of memory
- Extreme curiosity & asks many questions
- Specific talent (if any), such as artistic ability or an unusual facility for numbers - becomes more apparent by age 4
- Ability to memorize & recall facts easily
- Early development of a sense of humour
- Ability to do one-to-ne counting for small quantities by age 3
- Recognition of simple signs & own written name by age 3
- Ability to write letters, numbers, words & their names between 3 & 4 years
- Ability to read easy readers by age 4
- Rather independent on the computer by age 4
- Demonstration of musical aptitude just after 2
- Ability to do simple addition & subtraction by age 4
- High degrees of mathematical understanding by age 4
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