STAGES AND AGES OF CHILD/HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Name_________________________ Date___________ Section_____________
INFANT STAGE: Birth to 1st
Birthday; biggest growth spurt; Infant Mortality---a
problem; low birth weight; SIDS (Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome); FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome);
Shaken Baby Syndrome, Crack Babies; Failure to
Thrive, etc.
TODDLER STAGE: from 1st Birthday to
3rd Birthday; learn to walk and talk; learn to think
concretely; imitate parents and older siblings;
“terrible two’s tantrum” stage; learn to dress
themselves.
PRESCHOOLER
STAGE:
from the 3rd
Birthday to 5th Birthday; learning Socio-dramatic
play; emotional feelings and learn what empathy
means; starting to share and be helpful to others;
inventive; playful and able to begin to take care of
themselves; learning rules of games; may try to cheat
to win.
SCHOOL AGE
STAGE:
from 5th
Birthday to the 13th Birthday; Gender and Family
awareness and roles played by parents; guardians;
Learn to read; curiosity and imagination develops;
begin to Develop abstract learning (raining cats and
dogs, etc.)
TEENAGE STAGE: 13th to 19th
Birthdays; Adolescence and Puberty Importance of
friends/peers; may experiment in gangs if not
“socially” in a group a school for support; Teen Angst;
writing thoughts and poetry.
YOUNG ADULTHOOD STAGE: Ages 19 to 24;
College; post secondary school; military choices;
learning what to be an adult means…with
responsibilities and rules of society; experimenting
with different life styles; taking care of earning
money; expenses, food shopping/making meals;
laundry; paying for a car and/or rent/earning money
for a house down payment.
ADULTHOOD STAGE: Ages 25
to 35; marriage and child bearing; getting settled in
life; home purchase; more mature job status.
LAUNCHING STAGE: Ages 36-54 –
your children are off to college and marriage during
this time frame; largest earning capacity of your
lifetime.; early grandparenting years.
SENIOR/AGING ADULT STAGE: Ages 55 +
Enjoying retirement and grandchildren; helping
family members; choosing to do volunteering in the
community; travel.
You or your spouse may pass
away….leaving the other spouse to live his/her
lifespan out; possible remarriage or finding a partner
for the final years; enjoying great grandchildren;
passing on words of wisdom and life stories; sharing
with families financially if able to do so.
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE REPEATS
ITSELF………………