All About Your Child

Since my little one has turned 3 on Sunday, we called up the Polyclinic to schedule him for the development assessment sometime next week.

So while we wait for that day to come, we went through the development checklist given. A whole list of stuff, which we had to put a tick on the “Yes” or “No” box, before Binbin goes for the test at the Polyclinic. Do you know of a 2-3 years old kid? Could he or she do these:-

24mths – Your child can completely remove any of his own clothing such as the shirt, shoes or pants.

24.5mths – your child plays imaginatively, like playing with a doll and pretending to comb the doll’s hair.

34mths – your child can put on any of his own clothing like underpants, socks or shoes.

45.5mths – your child uses a friend’s name when referring or speaking to the friend.

23/29/35.5mths – your child can put 4 blocks, 6 blocks or 8 blocks, one on top of the other, without the blocks falling. This applies to small blocks of about one inch square in size.

38.5mths – demonstrate drawing a vertical straight line to your child and tell him to draw one like yours. Answer “yes” if he can make a fairly vertical line of less than 30 degrees inclination. He is not allowed to trace the line and the line should be more than 5 cm long but does not have to be perfectly straight.

46.5mths – draw two lines, 4 and 5 cm long, side by side on a card. Ask the child to point to the longer line.

25.5/28.5mths – show your child 5 black and white drawn picture cards, size of 6 by 8 cm, of a dog, bird, fish, bus, and baby. When asked to point to each picture, one at a time, making sure the pictures are being moved around after each time, he can point 2 pictures and 4 pictures correctly.

27mths – your child uses a combination of at least two words to make a meaningful phrase that indicated an action like “play ball”, “want drink”.

30/37mths – show your child 5 black and white drawn picture cards, size of 6 by 8cm, of a dog, bird, fish, bus, and baby. When asked to name each picture, one at a time, he can name 2 pictures and 4 pictures correctly.

40mths – When asked “How old are you?”, “Are you a boy or a girl?”, “What is your name?”, your child gives the correct answer 2 out of 3 questions.

21.5mths – your child can walk up several steps of the staircase by himself. He may use the wall or rail for support but not hold on to a person.

24.5mths – your child can walk down several steps of the staircase by himself. He may use the wall or rail for support but not hold on to a person.

26mths – without holding on to any support, your child can kick a small ball like a tennis ball in a forward direction.

32.5mths – without holding on to any support, your child can jump up with both feet off the floor at the same time.

33mths – your child can throw a small ball overhand, not sideways or underhand, straight towards you with reasonable aim within your arm’s reach and between your knees and head.

Just like I’ve mentioned in that post, Binbin’s development has always been on the express train. He is able to do (sometimes even better) what a child, who is 9 months older than him, does. So this was chicken-feet to him.

So how did your child fare?

Thank you for all the well-wishes to Binbin! The fever was totally gone in the evening yesterday. Only 3 rounds of diarrhoea today. Still the jelly type. A lot. Which is a very good sign too. (3 years ago) Keatkeat’s condition didn’t fully stop till the 10th day because his was always in small amounts. So I believe Binbin should be totally free from diapers in no time.

He feels awful wearing the diapers again since he had been fully toilet trained more than half-a-year ago. But I really needed to wrap him up to prevent me from extensive washing. Every time he farts, a little would spit out of his tiny hole; and boy-oh-boy he farts a-lot. His tummy is constantly pumping the extra air out of his ass, making all the high pitch and low pitch watery sound. – well the consolation part is Binbin laughs almost every-time he creates music from his bottom.

He is suffering too because he can’t eat! Eating IS his hobby and his favourite, like most of you know (after that post) are vegetables, fruits and dairy products. Things that are a straight NO-NO for anyone who is having a weak tummy.

The only thing he need not give up was his plain water. I never had to worry that my boy doesn’t drink enough plain water. He drinks in-between play, when he is watching cartoons, when he is doing his colouring….he drinks almost all the time. All I need to do is kept refilling his bottle of plain water which I usually placed it at the coffee table for self-service.

The banana hanging above the basin, the cheese in the refrigerator, his milk, his broccoli have suddenly become forbidden food. He understands. He doesn’t complain. He just kept saying, “Mommy, when I get well, I can eat that, right?…..Mommy, I am getting better already, right?…..”

Yes, my dear. You will get well soon….This is the worst sickness Binbin ever had….Suddenly I remember this year’s “curse” on people who were born in the year of the Rooster. Like Lydia, my Bear-nin, Binbin’s bloodshed during Chinese New Year…. somehow I just can’t help but relate Binbin’s sudden sickness to it. ….

Ah-ya…..don’t think too much. Which kid doesn’t fall sick? Just that Binbin is an “abnormal” kid who hardly fall sick, that’s all. Right?