Young parents are especially subject to various fears, when it comes to their kid. The first year of life of the baby becomes the present test not only for it, but also for its careful and loving mothers and fathers. During this time they constantly ask a question that the child has to be able to do when to it year is executed.
After a long-awaited holiday when all close relatives and friends are going to celebrate the first birthday of the kid, the careful parents begin to sum up the results of last year. During this time there were many pleasant and disturbing events. Nevertheless, attentive mothers and fathers continue to be anxious. During this period they ask questions: what the child has to be able to do in a year whether he lags behind in development.
Skills of the one-year-old child
It should be noted that all children different therefore they develop at the individual speed. At each kid the development of the opportunities happens at different times. However on average in a year the child has to be able:
- to stand without support;
- it is active to creep (some children pass a crawling stage, instead they start walking at once);
- to go with support of adults or independently;
- to rise to the feet, squat and to become straight;
- to get on a sofa, a chair, a bed and to go down on a floor;
- to open and close boxes, banks and to be able to put in them toys;
- to play with various objects (wares, headdresses, footwear, etc.);
- to imitate actions of adults and peers (to dig poles in sand, to clap, knock, "brush the hair", etc.;
- to take hands small objects (eraser, buttons, etc.).
In emotional and social development of the kid at this age there are also various changes. So, the one-year-old child has to be able:
- to recognize relatives;
- to prick up the ears or begin to cry at appearance of the stranger;
- to show the emotions: to embrace mom with dad, a favourite toy, to kiss them;
- to independently thumb through books, to point at the request of parents to any given drawing;
- to enjoy cheerful games and new toys;
- to express discontent by means of a mimicry (crying, shout, peep);
- with interest to look at the reflection in a mirror, to build mugs.
During this period the experts also recommend to pay attention to speech development of the kid. In a year the child has to be able to understand the speech and is active to react to it: to repeat after peers of a word which he knows; to imitate adults, repeating after them new words; to satisfy the simplest requests, for example, "put", "give", "open", "bring", etc.; it "is impossible" to understand a word meaning; to know the name and to react to it; to learn the objects surrounding it and at the request of parents to show on them.
Advice to young parents
Many parents worry that their child has to be able in a year very much, and in practice the kid knows only a few words, hardly goes and still demands a pacifier. It is not necessary to worry: each kid has the rate of development, will not pass also several months as it will overtake for the peers and will even become for them an example for imitation.
Since a year it is possible to accustom the child to a certain day regimen, however it is necessary to remember constantly that at such age the kid is very active and therefore quickly is tired. It is recommended to walk with it at least two times a day 1.5-2 hours. In the afternoon the kid more rare sleeps, usually in one year him it is necessary to put to bed only once, apart from night sleep. If the child is forbidden to do something, then this ban has to work always, but not change together with mood of parents.