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- From: ck270@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrea Von Ahnen)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Developmental Milestones: Survey
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:26:21 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- A bit off the subject, but I have a comment about the parenting
- books and their opinions on where babies should be developmentally
- at certain ages. For the most part I've found that these books
- report milestone "averages" that are way behind the averages I
- observe from my own kids, friends' kids, family's kids, and the
- general public I run into. For instance, (as Diane Segelhorst
- wrote) one of the books reports that kids sit unassisted on
- average at 9 months. I don't know many kids who weren't doing
- this by 6-7 months. My guess is the books do this to make
- parents feel particularly confident about their children who
- are excelling :) and also to avoid alarming parents whose kids
- might be a bit slow but not dangerously slow (i.e. doesn't need
- to be examined for abnormalities).
-
- Andi (Mom to Aaron, Alexander, and 3 wee ones due 3/93)
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