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- From: dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: More humorous developmental milestones
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:40:40 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- I enjoyed the funny milestones someone posted earlier, such as
- being able to stall past bedtime an excessive amount, or the 1st time the
- kid yells "no!" at you. I thought of some others, with smileys for all:
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- Motor skills:
- Ages at which the child walks vary; however, it is a rule of thumb that
- 5 weeks or so later, you will be able to blink, and the child who was right
- in front of you will be in another room;
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- By the child's 1st birthday, he or she will be able to "dress" themselves
- in a strange manner, because he or she will probably be WEARING their
- birthday cake! (This has happened quite a few times with my cousins.)
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- Sometime soon after the age of 2.5, the child will somehow manage to get
- mud covering 100% of his or her body;
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- Verbal
- By the age of 3, many children have sufficient control of their muscles,
- that they can yell "I hafta go potty" loud enough for everyone in whatever
- public building you may be in to hear them;
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- By the age of 1 month, most children can cry during an entire dinner,
- then somehow fall asleep on the way home;
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- By age 3.5, the child will have a sufficient vocabulary that he or she
- can talk non-stop for hours;
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- Several months later, the child will somehow "regress," as he or she will
- discover a new word - "poophead," for example - that annoys someone in the
- family, and will spend an entire 2 hour car trip repeating that word;
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- Cognitive
- By age 1.5, most children will be able to time the moment they need
- something *exactly* when a parent gets busy doing something else
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- Any others I've missed? :-)
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- Doug Fowler: dxf12@po.CWRU.edu : Me, age 4 & now: "Mommys and Daddys & other
- Ever wonder if, after Casey : relatives have to give lots of hugs & love
- missed the 3rd strike in the poem: & support, 'cause Heaven is just a great
- he ran to first and made it? : big hug that lasts forever and ever!!!"
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