Do you know your child’s developmental milestones?
Submitted by Dr. Gwenn Is In
A new study says that 1/3 of parents know little about infant development. That is a lot of parents!
The study out of the University of Rochester focused whether parents feel comfortable with their knowledge and how to stimulate their infants. 10,000 parents of 9month olds were interviewed about their knowledge of infant development and also video taped interacting with their infants in a play setting. And, 1/3 were found to have poor parenting knowledge nationwide. As we might expect, compared to the 2/3 of parents who were found to have good parenting knowledge of development, many of these parents had low income and poor education.
This study helps us identify a group of parents with potentially vulnerable infants - parents who may need more reminding and coaching of infant development in general. Parenting classes, services, resources need to be developed to help this groups and pediatricians clearly need to reach out more to these families.
But, anecdotally, all parents in my experience don’t really get infant development all the time. Even well educated parents and parents with solid incomes don’t always understand appropriate infant development. Given the importance of stimulating infants brain growth during the first year of life, it is important that all parents get appropriate reminders of infant developmental milestones.
Here are some web resources I find useful for infant development that lists infant developmental milestones by age:
Zero To Three
Hallmark Developmental Milestones
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