Completing Stages of Child Development Essential to a Child's Growth
Stages of Child Development: What Are They?
The stages of child development are generally recognized milestones that healthy children reach as they grow and develop from birth through childhood and even young adulthood. Successful completion of the stages of child development — the process of children growing physically, socially and cognitively — is key to a child's healthy development. Poor children, however, often never reach one or more of the stages of child development because they lack the resources necessary to complete all the stages of child development.
Stages of Child Development: Which Ones Do Poor Children Miss?
The stages of child development begin even before a child in born. But the measurable stages of child development in early childhood are known as the "zero to three" years. These are the years Compassion's Child Survival Program seeks to address as it rescues infants and toddlers from poverty's grip. During these years a child who is healthy completes the stages of development that allow the child to walk, talk, clap and develop other fine motor skills. Poor children often miss out on one or more of these stages of child development because they are malnourished, miss out on learning to read to or other educational stimuli, or die from a treatable disease like malaria.
Stages of Child Development: What Is Needed?
The stages of child development continue through the toddler years as children learn independence, can socialize, begin to read and write, and become little citizens. But many poor children miss out on these milestones in the stages of child development.
Each day, nearly 27,000 children under age 5 die. You can help ensure poor children progress successfully through the stages of child development by supporting Compassion's Child Survival Program or sponsoring a child through Compassion. You can ensure poor children progress safely through the stages of child development by partnering with Compassion today!
