He faces three challenges: walking, talking and thinking.
Your baby has already progressed considerably in its integral development, to the point of risking to stand with support, try to walk and sometimes achieve, pronounce several words with meaning and establish new friendships with people different from those of his family; This gives the necessary security to face new challenges.
During months 10 to 12, your baby is expected to gain about 200 grams a month, increase by a little more than one centimeter a month in size and about half a centimeter in head circumference, as long as food and health go well.
Expected accomplishments in their body development include crawling to perfection, standing with support and in some cases walking; Pulling and stuffing into a box or cup, receiving and delivering things, flipping pages of a book or magazine, and helping to dress.
In language, he is expected to properly pronounce a few words with precise meaning, identify his name and be able to call his mother. Besides, I can say goodbye with your hands, applaud, point at the index and make faces learned from others.
Intellectually you are expected to advance in the symbolization and intentionality of your actions, which you can stimulate with the processes of imitation, affective relationships and play; Through enjoyment with the repetition of learned behaviors.
From before, but especially from this stage, the game is constituted in its main activity: playing experiment, relates to others, solves their internal problems, learns the operation of things and acquires its integral development.
Parenting Guidelines
Your baby at this age becomes more and more the center of family activity, which stimulates his self-esteem and favors the development of autonomy, which with the affectionate support of the people who facilitate, guide and respect the game, Will give free rein to your creativity. By developing these goals, facing the daily conflicts and with the affective security provided by your family, you will weave the resilience (ability to resist adversity) so necessary in the exercise of the vital process.
Taking as a project of life the daily construction of self-esteem, autonomy, creativity, solidarity, happiness, and health to weave resilience, is configured a whole program of humanized upbringing that is proposed to parents, for the affectionate and intelligent accompaniment they provide To their children during their life process, as a true exercise of their childcare work.
Humanized parenting is based on the integral protection of the rights of children, solving the specific needs of each stage of life and promoting the development of the child’s potential and providing opportunities that facilitate the achievement of skills and abilities for the child. life.
If the above paragraphs are taken as a family life project, children will most likely have the ideal environment for their integral development.
