It's really funny you should ask this. Amelia is starting to crawl and starting to put everything in her mouth. Its crazy. she is 7 months old right now and she still doesn't quite have her hand/mouth cordination but its getting here. she picks up everything.

I can't answer your question though. i don't know if it's a learning thing but i know it's a problem. because it keeps me on my toes all the time.

http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofp ersonality/ss/psychosexualdev_2.htm

This is one of the many sites that popped up when I typed in Oral Latent stage of development in my search engine.

Thank you for your reply that helped alot

If you don't find anything I will hunt down my child psych book and look up the stages and let you know what it says.

Good luck, I was going to say that I miss writing papers, but I don't now that I think about it.

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Yeah I wouldn't miss them either. This is the 3rd report I have done this week and I have another one for next week. FUN. anyways again thank you so much for your help

Hey! Ive just studied early childhood and it covers stuff like this. Infants put things in their mouths to differenciate between things through textures e.g A baby would start to know the feel and texture of a bottle when they put it in their mouths so anytime something has the texture of a bottle they will automatically start sucking it...... hope this makes sense!

There are so many different theories, which you probably know because you are studying this stuff.

Milestones for Children is such a huge topic.

I personally like Piaget's six stages of sensorimotor development for cognitive development from birth to 24 months.

It depends on what your report is focusing on because a combination of theories could be what your teacher/professor is looking for. Piaget's cognitive stages of development and Erikson's psychosocial stages are a good combination if you are spanning through a child' s life.
With both theorists, you would be touching on the cognitive and emotional development of a child's lifespan through adolescence.

Auzzie really did a great job at answering your question in a condensed yet precise, simple way!!! My papers were always too dang wordy. I think it drove my professors crazy.

hahaha im sure you didnt drive your professors crazy!! Im more of a Vygotsky Theory fan even though they are very similiar except the fact that Vygotsky believes in scaffolding the childs learning e.g a person helpss the infact get to the next stage where as piaget believes that they should get there with no help.

Hey, you really know your stuff!!! Talk about retention of material. I have forgotten a lot of it.

hahaha dont ask me any other questions, i prob wouldnt know. We did alot of work on theorists and we had to pick and choose the theories that we liked and make a philosophy of our own.

Did you learn about emergent curriculum, Developmentally Appropriate Practices (Dap) etc??

I PMed you to talk more!!

i probably sound really stupid but what did you guys go to college for that you're learning this stuff? teaching or something? lol im retarded but it sounds interesting.

Hey .Terra?

I went to college and did a degree in Early Childhood.

Hope this helps!

lol i really considered that, but i have a hard time getting up infront of groups lol im shy.

lol in my class we never had to get up in front of anyone and do anything..... At times we had role plays but only the ones that wanted to do it had to. Its mainly assignments and a teacher standing out the front and giving you all the information. Im sure you would be great at it!!

Sounds like child psychology.

oh my, allie!!!!!!!!!! lol where have you been?


and thanks! but if i were to be a teacher i'd have to get up infront of the class!! i'd choke haha i start shaking and cant look up at teh class last year in language i was gonna take a zero insetad of getting up infront of the class to present my project, my friends had to drag me up there to do it it was freaky, and id known these kids my whole life pretty much lol

The theorist part does correlate to psychology but the rest of the course is alot different to psychology.

Pretty much you have to know why children do things before you can care for them.

Hey! lurking around lol. busy with Lucas, he's 1 now and sleeping the rest of the time, I look like a whale Im sure my belly is bigger this time! 12 weeks to go...they put my due date back to may 26th. Hope everythings good with you!