Terms like "child development milestones" can cause anxiety in some parents. It's natural to compare your child's skills to the ones of children around their age, but doing so rarely yields good ...

Milestones aren't in place to shame parents into feeling like failures, or to suggest that some kids are behind. They are ...

From their first smile and initial mumbles of baby talk to their first wobbly steps, a child’s “firsts” are such an exciting time for parents. However, important developmental milestones include more ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics have updated their developmental milestones for children under five for the first time in years. Sarah Ryan is a ...

Crawling, first steps and first words. Families celebrate and cherish these milestones, but they also say a lot about a child's early development.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

CLAIM: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly lowered the milestones for early childhood development in response to the pandemic. THE FACTS: Experts relied on research done prior to ...

Milestones like smiling for the first time or crawling are monumental for parents of young children. Recently, the CDC updated its guidelines on when children should be capable of doing various skills ...