Milestones: Your Baby at Two Months

How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.

What most babies do at this age:

Social and Emotional

• Begins to smile at people
• Can briefly calm himself (may bring hands to mouth and suck on hand)
• Tries to look at parent

Language/Communication

• Coos, makes gurgling sounds
• Turns head toward sounds

Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)

• Pays attention to faces
• Begins to follow things with eyes and recognize people at a distance
• Begins to act bored (cries, fussy) if activity doesn’t change

Movement/Physical Development

• Can hold head up and begins to push up when lying on tummy
• Makes smoother movements with arms and legs

Hone Your Kid's Fine Motor Skills: 7 Hands-On Tips

Source: education.com

1. Use Crafts to Improve Your Child's Pencil Grip

Let your child roll and mold play dough, tear up newspapers for a papier-mâché project, string beads, and make finger puppets. These fun activities will improve the way she holds her pencil.

view the seven tips here

Is Your Child Reaching Developmental Milestones?

Baby Steps: Learn the Signs. Act Early.
Source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
Running Time: (4:32) Release Date: 9/22/2008

Learn how to look for developmental milestones and what to do if you’re worried about your child’s development or think there’s a problem.  Call the C-FB ISD Special Education Department at 972-968-5800 if you have any questions or suspect a developmental delay in your child. 

Fourth of July Fun

This fun July 4th craft will help your little ones develop fine motor skills.  Enjoy the fireworks! 

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Summer Fun: Learning Indoors

Let your little ones practice letters and numbers indoors with hopscotch. 

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No Mess Fun for Little Ones

Try this fun activity with your young child: Paint in ziplock bags, taped to table. Great distraction, no mess!
Check out more Parenting Young Children ideas on Pinterest.com. 

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