Childcare

 Cognitive Development

• One-month-old - freezes when a soft noise is heard
• Three-month-old - Recognises familiar routines, alert and can follow movement when the object is close
• Six-month-old - Recognises voices and will explore different objects by putting them in mouth
• Eight-month-old/Nine months old  - Looks for dropped objects or objects that are being hidden
  
• Twelve-month-old - 'trial and error' dropping things and watching them fall to the ground can learn by trying things out and then repeats if successful
  
• Fifteen months old - Will explore object by sight and sound
  
• Eighteen months old - Will remember where things belong, is curious to explore environment
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