Development tracker
Track your child’s development
As your toddler grows into a pre-schooler and then a pre-adolescent, you will be sure to want to continue to track your child’s development through the ages. The Birth & Baby child tracker will give you general guidelines to help you keep pace with your child’s milestones.
5 stages
4 to 12 years
Stage 1 of 5
4 - 5 years
By about four or five years of age, your child will have doubled his or her birth length and can name most colours.
Stage 2 of 5
5 - 6 years
Your child may be able to write some letters of the alphabet, and he or she can draw people with distinct body parts.
Stage 3 of 5
6 - 8 years
Your child can bounce a ball 4-6 times and will start to learn to tell the time.
Stage 4 of 5
8 - 10 years
Your child has a well-developed sense of humour and a strong sense of what’s right and wrong.
Stage 5 of 5
10 - 12 years
Over these three years, your daughter’s weight will on average increase from 34 to 41 kilograms, and your son’s from 31 to 39 kilograms.
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