Giving her these opportunities to exercise her large movements gives her the ability to focus on her smaller work as well as eat and sleep better. Every day includes a combination of a toddler-led walk, sliding at the playground, carrying heavy objects around the house, and climbing up and down the stairs on repeat. Now, as a toddler, she is going through a huge sensitive period for gross motor. Toddlers’ need to move and exert energy often seems limitless, and it practically is.ĭ was a late crawler and walker, so her first year was all about fine motor. Through the second year, toddlers continue this self-motivated movement but with more refinement, coordination, and control. They use their hands in different ways to explore their environment and materials with more precision every day.
It is easy to see this in the great effort infants put in as they quickly transition from lying to rolling to sitting to crawling to pulling up. Sensitive Period for Large Movement: Birth to 2.5 yearsįrom birth to two and a half years, children show a sensitive period for movement. (For example, adults know how much harder it is to learn one new language than it is for toddlers to learn two languages at the same time.)
If they miss the sensitive period of window, they will likely still develop those skills, but will take longer and with more effort and less joy. They may also lose the ease of doing and interest for the activities related to developing that skill. When a child isn’t permitted to exercise their sensitive periods, they will likely throw tantrums to demonstrate their unmet needs to fulfill their interests and goals for that period. It can help to keep these sensitive periods in mind to better understand your toddler’s “tricky” behaviors too.
You’ll know when your child is in a sensitive period because they are engaged, passionate, and energized by working on this specific activity or skill, and often return to it again and again. Though there are general time frames for each of these periods, every child is a bit different in their development.
#SENSITIVE PERIOS MONTESSORI HOW TO#
Before going into some these in more depth, it can help to know how to spot a sensitive period.
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