Parents eagerly wait for their infants to master motor skills, recording it with pride when their little ones reach out for objects, sit upright by themselves or even when they start walking without support. The sense of achievement is quite obvious. Acquiring these motor skills gives infants a new dimension and they start seeing the environment around them in a completely different way. With every new milestone that your child reaches, they start exploring the world around them in a different way.
A baby's motor control skill widens their scope for social relationships too. Walking brings the first "testing of wills" in children.
The sequence of Motor Development
Gross motor development in a child enables them to be present as a part of the environment. Activities like craw ling, standing and walking are part of gross motor skills. Fine motor development talks about smaller movements babies make like grasping and reaching out to hold an object. A Cephalocaudal trend or head to tail sequence in children is evident. The motor control of head comes much before the motor control of arms and heads. Another one is the Proximodistal trend, it means from the center of the body outward. Physical growth in a child follows Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal trends during prenatal, infancy and childhood stages.
Here is a list of gross and motor skills development in the first two years and how some toys by milestones can help to develop these skills in a child.
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