CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -growth refers to specific body changes and increases in the child’s size, such as child’s height, weight, head circumference, and body mass index. These size changes can usually be easily measured. development typically refers to an increase in complexity, a change from relatively simple to more complicated.

Detailed explanation-2: -Physical growth refers to an increase in body size (length or height and weight) and in the size of organs. From birth to about age 1 or 2 years, children grow rapidly. After this rapid infant and early toddler growth, growth slows until the adolescent growth spurt.

Detailed explanation-3: -Three charts are used most commonly: one for weight, one for length/height and one for head circumference. There are separate growth charts for boys and girls as growth rates differ slightly between genders. Of these, weight is most often used by parents and HCPs alike, as the measure of growth in infancy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Head circumference increases an average 1 cm/month during the first year; growth is more rapid in the first 8 months, and by 12 months, the brain has completed half its postnatal growth and is 75% of adult size.