In general, babies begin developing motor skills form head to tail (cephalocaudal), the center of the body outward( proximodistal). Initially, babies' movements are simply the uncontrolled, reflexive movements they are born with, over time, they learn to move their body parts voluntarily to perform both gross (large) and fine (small) motor skills.

Infants need to learn how to move and to use their bodies to perform various tasks, a process better known as motor development. It represents a complex and sometimes disturbing psychological transition, accompanying the requirement for the accepted social behavior of the particular adult and culture. The onset of adolescence cannot be pointed in physiological term, although it is influenced by the same sex hormones and refers to the same general period as physical sexual development. Although sometimes described as beginning in parallel with fertility or puberty and ending with maturity and independence, adolescence has a very variable and imprecise duration The Convention of the Rights if the Child defines a child as' every human being below the age of 18 years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier'.Īdolescence- According to Stuart Judge, a noted educator and psychologist, adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.

It is more circumscribed period of time from infancy to the onset of puberty.

Childhood- Childhood is defines as the time for a boy or girl from birth until he or she is an adult.

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