Understanding children's motor development will help you to support it without asking too much of them or inhibiting them, as Dr Richard Woolfson explains
has increasingly better balance when she moves, she is more adept at climbing over furniture or across any obstacle in her path, she enjoys playing with large outdoor equipment, she learns to hop, skip and jump, and she loves swaying her body round in time to music. This vast range of movement abilities makes her day a lot more interesting for her. True, these skills continue to develop throughout later childhood, but it is in this early part of her life that most locomotion characteristics begin to emerge.
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