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Child Development 3 Years …
The Stages Of Development Of Your 3 Year Old Child

This page, Child Development 3 Years presents an overview of the developmental stages of your 3 year old child.

Important Note: On this page, you may notice that we’ve used the term 'His'. We refer 'His' to be both male and female child. In short… the stages of development we talk about here apply to both male and female child ;o)

At the age of three, your child is rapidly growing the ability to communicate his ideas and feelings. This is often the year of tantrums, imaginative fears and nightmares. He is very energetic… runs about easily and climbs on to furniture and up and down stairs quite easily.

His Physical Development
Benefit Of Physical Development To Your Child
Your Role To Help His Physical Development
Toys And Equipment To Help With His Physical Development
His Social And Emotional Development
Your Role To Help With His Social And Emotional Development
His Cognitive/Intellectual Development
Activities And Equipment To Help His Cognitive Development
His Language Development
Best Way Of Promoting Your 3 Year Old Child Showing Developmental Delay

His Physical Development

Physical development is the changes which your 3 year old acquires by the direction of his actions. He would have discovered all the simple skills that he needs by the age six or seven.

Later he becomes more skilled at exploiting his actions… for instance… he may go into a direction to be able to run quickly or exploit many of his skills at a time.

He uses smaller actions that he needs when he writes, draw or join together a jigsaw puzzle. These actions develops his fine manipulative skills.

When his fine manipulative skills are well developed he…

Washes and dries hand with assistance
Is able to use spoon without spilling
Can torn pages in a book one by one
Holds crayon and may draw a face
Can put on and take off coat.

As he’s becoming more active, he uses his whole limbs in order to walk, run and jump… developing his gross manipulative skills. Developed gross manipulative skills allow him to…

Jump from low steps
Pedal and steer a tricycle
Walk and run forward
Walk on tiptoe
Throw a large ball.

Benefit Of Physical Development To Your Child

Physical development is of great value for your child’s total development for two main reasons…

It permits additional growth to take place… for example if he discovers one skill, he may establish and grow on that skill.
It influences his confidence and self-esteem. If he’s able to ride a bicycle he may feel proud about himself.

Your Role To Help His Physical Development

Your 3 year old child is beginning to enjoy playing together with other children and challenging one another. You need stimulating activities that will permit him to grow smaller actions, for instance painting, cooking as well as chances to take part in pretend or deceive play.

Toys And Equipment To Help With His Physical Development

Puzzles
Large outdoor equipment
Paints and crayons
Play dough
Sand and water
Tricycles
Prams
Dressing up clothes
Musical instruments
Balls etc.

His Social And Emotional Development

Social and emotional development forms a foundation for your child discovering growth. The growth of independence, concentration skills and having the skill to understand easy instructions are important for him to be calm and efficient later in his school years.

During this age he…

Likes to do things without your support
Takes joy in family mealtimes
Is able to reason about things from somebody else’s point of view
Indicates love for younger siblings
Frequently develops fear for instance… darkness, as he becomes efficient of pretending and imagining
Is having the knowledge of being boy or girl and is growing a sex role
Head towards friends and are fond of having friends
Is willing to share toys with other children and is starting to take turns when playing
Takes joy in assisting you when tidying up.

Your Role To Help With His Social And Emotional Development

You must create a good ‘emotional’ surrounding around your 3 year old child. This can be achieved by putting up his work around the home, giving him stickers and badges for attempts, but most importantly by supporting and constantly praising him in an unconditional way.

His Cognitive/Intellectual Development

Cognitive/intellectual development is about the way your 3 year old child’s thinking changes as he grows. It's about ways in which he makes arrangements for his thoughts and arrive at realising his surrounding.

With a developed intellectual ability, your 3 year old child…

Finishes a three piece puzzle
Copies a circle
Joins three colours
Understands primary colours… blue, red, yellow and green
Can name three shapes
Can count up to ten objects with help.

Activities And Equipment To Help His Cognitive Development

Child Development 3 Years Activities And Equipment Chart:

Types Of Toys	What He Learns	Cognitive Skills Developed
Puzzles	He learns about shape and space. Will also try to sort and match. But as he becomes older, trail and error learning will be reduced as he begins to use thinking skills to work out the order of the pieces.	Dividing puzzles into groups, attention and concentration.
Sorting Objects	He's able to sort, arrange and divide objects into groups in an appropriate manner of colour, shape and size.	Dividing objects into groups, attention and concentration.
Sewing Cards	He practices about patterns and colours.	Dividing into groups, attention and concentration.
Duplo	He practices about space, shape and organises. He also participates in matching and sorting as well as being inspired with confidence to reason about size.	Dividing into groups, attention and concentration.
Matching Games	Assists him to sort and match. It assists his memory as he finds a matching card as cards are put face down. He may select a card and find out where the other pair is.	Dividing cards into groups, attention, concentration and memory.
Feely Bags	He's inspired with confidence to exploit his senses to find out what object is in a bag.	Dividing into groups, attention concentration and memory

His Language Development

As his vocabulary grows and becomes more fluent he's ready for longer books with a simple story. He's beginning to enjoy and repeat rhymes and songs.

He...

Uses personal pronouns and plurals correctly and can give his own name and sex, and age sometimes
Carry on simple conversations and able to describe briefly present activities and past experiences
Learns to speak more than one language if he hears more than one language spoken around him as he grows
Talks to himself when playing
Enjoy listening to and making music
Counts up to ten or more by repetition.

Best Way Of Promoting Your 3 Year Old Child Showing Developmental Delay

Select activities that are practical for him
Ensure that activities are suitable for his recent level of realising
Go over activities very often with him
Separate concepts and activities into smaller orders
Search for more different ways of introducing the same concept to him
Prevent him from becoming upset and bored by an activity
Praise and encourage him for his attempts.

Child Development 3 Years …The Stages Of Development Of Your 3 Year Old Child