Motor Skills Development

There are four main aspects of children development which grow and develop rapidly in their first five years.

❤️ Cognitive Skills Development (Intellectual)

💛 Motor Skills Development (Physical)

💚 Communication and Language Development, and

💙 Social and Emotional Development

Motor skills development is the physical growth relates to strengthening the bones, muscles and ability to move and touch, which categorised to two types; gross motor and fine motor.

Gross motor skills usually refers to physical skills which involved muscles and large body movements on the entire body.  This skill enables children to hold up their heads, shoulders, arms, legs, where they use to sit and crawl, and eventually play, walk, run, jump, etc.

On the other hand, fine motor skills is crucial in engaging smaller movements, normally involving hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips and tongue. Fine motor skills are different than gross motor skills which require less precision to accomplish.

Motor skills is very important because physical development is related to the other three development areas.

For an instance, when a child is able to sit, crawl and eventually walk (gross motor skills), the child can explore the surroundings more easily such as holding things and toys with fingers (fine motor skills), which affects cognitive development.

Through the exploration, he/she can improve his/her ability to think and learn to speak. Thus, communication and language development progresses as well and eventually affects social and emotional development later.

(Sources of info: helpmegrowmn.org, gracepointwellness.org)

As Harris is still a toddler, I enjoy watching him move around here and there especially when his toddling back and forth 😘

Love,
Momma Hana 🌹