This document describes the healthy development of a virtual child named Maxine from birth through age 14. It outlines her development along physical, cognitive, and social/emotional dimensions at various ages. Key milestones include learning to sit up at 3 months, saying first words at 12 months, learning to use the toilet at 2 years, having tantrums at 3 years, having long attention spans and coloring at 4-5 years, enjoying songs and following rules at school at 6-8 years, showing interest in friends and activities at 8-10 years, and increased interest in friends and magazines at 12-14 years.

1. Healthy Development
of Whole Child
 Physical, Cognitive, Social / emotional
dimension

2. 0 month
My virtual child whose
name is Maxine just
born.

3. 0 to 3 month
 Physical:
 Spending most of the
time falling asleep
 Gaining weight
 Sitting with support

4. 8 months
 Social/emotional:
 Being cautious and
shy in most of new
situations or with new
people
 Has strong emotional
reactions and has
difficulty soothing
herself back down.

5. 12 months
 Cognitive
 Saying first words
 Enjoying dropping
objects over edge of
Crib
 Being able to imitate
new words and actions.

6. 2 years
 Physical:
 Learn how to use toilet
 Stacks 4- 6 objects
 She is able to ride a
tricycle.

7. 3 years
 Social/emotional:
 Being clingy with teacher, and
reluctant to join in preschool
activities, but after sufficient
encouragement will join in.
 Knowing she is a girl
 Has an emotional outburst or
tantrum about not getting
something she wants.

8. 4 to 5 years
 Cognitive:
 Has long attention and finishes activities
 Able to fill up page after page in her
coloring books with partially colored
pictures.

9. 6-8years
 Being cooperative with the teacher and has a
small group of friends at school and one friend
in the neighborhood.
 Being pretty good at learning the words of
songs in school and has a decent voice.
 Being interested in the children’s lives and
particular enjoys hearing about what they do to
have fun.
 Working independently, usually listens
attentively and follows directions, and usually
follows classroom rules.
 Her outbursts of anger are less frequent.

10. 8-10 years
 Being kind of a
tomboy, wants to ride
her bike to the school
grounds after school.
She likes to play
whiffle ball or
basketball with
neighbor boys and one
or two other girl
friends

11. 12-14years
 Showing an increased interested in boys,
being more interested in articles about
sex in teen and women’s magazines.
 Spends lots of time hanging out and
seeing movie with some friends