A Baby's Developing Skills

Motor Skills

• Pushing up on extended arms
• Shifting weight on hands and knees
• Readying her body for lifting while being picked up
• Rolling from back to front
• Reaching for a toy
• Sitting with support
• Cooperating in being pulled to a sitting position
• Bringing hands together
• Grasping objects voluntarily

• Reacting to a piece of paper placed on her face
• Looking toward a sound
• Tolerating gentle roughhousing

• Regularly localizing the source of a voice with accuracy
• Vocalizing two different sounds
• Responding to your expressions and sounds with vocalizations

• Focusing and paying attention for 30 or more seconds
• Looking and scanning for objects and faces
• Smiling at her own face in the mirror
• Looking toward an object that moves out of her visual range
• Looking at her own hand
• Manipulating and playing with toys, such as a rattle or key ring

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Copyright © 1999 by Stanley I. Greenspan. Excerpted from Building Healthy Minds: The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence And Emotional Growth In Babies And Young Children with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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