Ages and stages

1. Ages &
Stages

2. How old would you
be if you didn’t know
how old you were?
Attributed to Satchel Paige

3. Yardsticks by Chip Wood
“Each child is unique -
each child a gift,
each child a surprise.”
~ Chip Wood

4. Four Key Principles
of child development

5. Child
development
follows
predictable
patterns.

6. Children generally go
through predictable
stages in the same
order, but they will
not go through them
at the same rate.

7. The various
aspects of
development do
not proceed at
the same rate.

8. Growth is
uneven

9. “In order to be treated
fairly and equally
children need to be
treated differently.”
~ Melvin Konner
Childhood a Multicultural View