The document outlines the healthy development of a child from birth to age 14 across physical, cognitive, and social/emotional dimensions. Key milestones include: gaining weight from 0-3 months; saying first words at 12 months; stacking objects and riding a tricycle by age 2; knowing their gender identity at age 3; having long attention spans and completing activities from ages 4-5; cooperating well with teachers and having friends by ages 6-8; displaying a tomboy interest in sports from ages 8-10; and showing romantic interests and spending time with friends from ages 12-14.

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

2. 0 to 3 month
 Physical:
 Spends most of the
time falling asleep
 Gain weight
 Sit with support

3. 8 months
 Social/emotional:
 She is cautious and
shy in most of new
situations or with new
people
 She has strong
emotional reactions
and has difficulty
soothing herself back
down.

4. 12 months
 Cognitive
 Says first words
 Enjoys dropping
objects over edge of
Crib
 She is able to imitate
new words and
actions.

5. 2 years
 Physical:
 Learn how to use toilet
 Stacks 4- 6 objects
 She is able to ride a
tricycle.

6. 3 years
 Social/emotional:
 She is a clingy with teacher, and
reluctant to join in preschool
activities, but after sufficient
encouragement will join in.
 Knows she is a girl
 She has an emotional outburst or
tantrum about not getting
something she wants.

7. 4 to 5 years
 Cognitive:
 Has long attention and finishes activities
 She can fill up page after page in her
coloring books with partially colored
pictures.

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

9. 8-10 years
 She is 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

10. 12-14years
 She has shown an increased interested in
boys, she is more interested in articles
about sex in teen and women’s
magazines.
 She spends lots of time hanging out and
seeing movie with some friends