What a child can and should be able to do at 10 months

Your baby is 10 months old, and compared to newborn babies, it seems so big! A true hero, but in fact, they are of the same age. And after a couple of years, the age difference will be completely invisible. Some parents write down what their child can do at 10 months, and then read these notes with their already adult baby. These notes always evoke touching smiles. So what could you record?

Physical skills

• The child is not only confidently sitting, crawling well, but also firmly standing on his legs. It can even stand holding on to a support with only one hand. Sometimes a crumb can be “misled" - to give a toy to the pens, then the baby will be distracted and will hold on to it, and forget about the support. But as soon as he discovers a deception, then he either grabs her again, or sits on the ass;
• With pleasure walks with a chair (or a toy gurney), pushes him in front of him. But sometimes it can do without it, the wall, sofa or bed will serve as a support. Perhaps your baby at ten months old can walk independently without support and support;
• A new achievement - a child can climb a short ladder: 2-3 steps. At the same time, he first puts the leg on the step, and then raises the second leg to it. A little later he will learn to go down;
• Able or learns to climb onto a sofa, chair or your playpen. It does not always work out, but there is a desire.

Social development

• The kid has become quite grown up and wants to do everything as big. Now it’s easy to accustom him to good manners - eat from a spoon, drink from a cup. And after a meal, ask for pot;
• He can already fulfill some “instructions”: to bring you this or that subject, to show how to play with something. Allow him to choose for himself in which tights he will go for walks, in blue or green, or which blouse he will put on;
• 10-20 minutes the baby is able to amuse himself, in his children's corner he finds a lot of urgent matters for himself, playing or browsing a book. At the same time, it can get so busy that it does not notice a “wet” accident. Do not blame the baby, because then he really had no time!
• The child has a favorite toy, which he takes with him to bed;
• The child eagerly plays with other children of his age.Only he needs to help in this, to teach communication with peers, because he does not have such a skill in 10 months;
• It shows interest in animals that it meets in an apartment or on the street;
• Most often, the child does not want to walk with the pacifier himself, so it can be quite easy to wean him from her. If it doesn’t work, then you can “lose” the nipple and not give it more.

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Emotional development

• Here, too, a real breakthrough takes place - the baby already realized that it is possible to communicate not only by screaming or crying;
• The baby understands the words “no”, “impossible”, “possible”. But trying to be naughty, and he likes it. Disobedience is such a fun game! Knows the words “give”, “on”, “hold”, “go to the pens”. Learns to obey parents;
• He begins to show a sense of humor. He perceives jokes well, he can specially make funny sounds and laugh at them. He understands and rejoices when they play with him. The child smiles and laughs when his parents joke or tickle him;
• He asks for his hands to his parents, holding out the handles up. The child consciously hugs his mother;
• It can be terribly upset when a toy is taken from him and forced to do “unpleasant” things, for example, eating or sleeping. In order not to have unnecessary tears, the baby needs to be distracted by something, interested in the upcoming business;
• Shows his displeasure. When the baby is dissatisfied with something, he begins to act up, scatter toys, and he does this consciously;
• Waving a goodbye, hugs, holds out at a meeting.

Pot

The child should already know what a pot is. The kid even knows how to sit quietly on him for several minutes. Some parents practice early planting, which help to quickly abandon diapers. Accustoming to the pot is an individual issue, so it is important to monitor the reaction of the baby.

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Games and toys

• At this age, a new stage also begins in the kid’s games, a small plot appears in them, the games become more meaningful. The kid can rock the doll, but still has not guessed that it is possible to play with a teddy bear or a bunny in the same way;
• The child is very fond of rolling a ball, carrying cars, collecting pyramids;
• At 10 months, the child should be able to pick up a small object from the floor, put it in a bucket;
• He knows about what these or those objects are for. He, reaching for the phone, will put it to his ear, he will send a spoon in his mouth, and his mother’s lipstick will make up his lips;
• All the same, the baby loves to play different “palm” games with you, and the game of hide and seek becomes almost real, because the baby prefers to hide behind a chair. It is important to look for it longer, on the bed or under it, throughout the room. And then “find” and be surprised.

The child already knows well about where his bed and a box of toys are located, tries to turn on the TV with the remote control, takes out candy or fruit from a plate.

Baby easy and simple

• breaks toys, trying to find out their device;
• pulls everything that he can reach to the floor;
• puts forward the boxes available to him, takes things out of them;
• pulls clothes and linen from the shelves accessible to him;
• lays the item on a raised platform;
• stacks small objects in a pot, bucket or box;
• pulls items from one place over the entire area available to him;
• tries to eat with a spoon on her own, drink from a cup with her mother’s help.

Speech

The arsenal of child-friendly syllables is growing. He has already submitted “Ma”, and “Ba”, and “Pa”. He is constantly working on their pronunciation. He catches your every word. And soon you will hear the demanding - “give-give-give ”! True, many kids, demanding something, say "on the!" After all, you, handing him something, say exactly that word!

The kid really wants to chat! So much so that he even invents his own language. He speaks it to you and is upset when they do not understand him. Do not interrupt the baby, let him speak out to the end. Talk to him as a full conversationalist.Then, accustomed to this, he will communicate with you both when he becomes a teenager and when he is an adult.

Development tests

Not all babies at 10 months are developed equally. Someone has more skills. someone less. In general, there is a list of what a child should be able to do at 10 months:

1. Sit and stand on your own, holding on to a support.
2. Get to the toy crawling.
3. Understand the speech addressed to him.
4. To attract the attention of parents through gestures, babbling, syllables.
5. Repeat elementary syllables (ma, pa, ba, etc.).
6. The flutter should be emotionally colored, not be monotonous.

What should alert

There is nothing wrong if the baby is slightly behind in certain skills. But there are moments in the behavior of a 10-month-old baby that should alert parents. If the child cannot:

• hold the head;
• sit without support;
• crawl and stand on its feet, holding on to a support or with the help of parents;
• independently chew food of small and medium hardness;
• make any sounds;
• to concentrate attention;
• repeat some actions for adults, for example, close the eyes with handles or follow the eyes with an interesting object.

In all these cases, you should contact your pediatrician. The help of narrow specialists will also be required: a neurologist, speech therapist, orthopedist.

In detail: baby development at 10 months

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