Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- 9 Physical Development of Toddlers
- 10 Cognitive Development of Toddlers
- 11 Social and Emotional Development of Toddlers
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
9 - Physical Development of Toddlers
from Part 4 - Toddlerhood
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- 9 Physical Development of Toddlers
- 10 Cognitive Development of Toddlers
- 11 Social and Emotional Development of Toddlers
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
Summary
‘You Must Run at Least Twice as Fast as That’
Well, in our country,' said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you'd generally get to somewhere else – if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing’. ‘A slow sort of country’, said the Queen. ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking GlassKEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Instinct practice play
Surplus energy
Sensori-motor
Development theory
Sensori-motor play
Symbolic play
Logico-mathematical
Physical knowledge
Father's role
Introduction
As toddlers emerge from infancy, dramatic changes are taking place in their physical development. As far as their mobility is concerned, they are relatively independent of their parents. A glance around any supermarket will usually identify some harried parent trying to control a toddler while attempting frantically to fill their basket or trolley with groceries.
Toddlers have discovered the advantages of standing and walking. Much to their parents' concern they are now able to reach the top of kitchen benches, tables and door knobs, opening up whole new worlds for exploration. Standing on tip-toe they can reach for knives or saucepans. Although a little unsteady on their feet at first, toddlers revel in their new found mobility, charging from room to room in the house, squealing with delight. Stairs are a fatal attraction and the despair of parents.
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- Child, Adolescent and Family Development , pp. 183 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002