Gross Motor Skills Research Paper

When it comes to gross motor skills, you must learn how to walk before you can run. It is not only crazy how much newborns develop from birth to the first year of life, but impressive. When a newborn is first born they cannot do simple basic movements like picking up their heads, but by 6 to 7 months and they are able to sit up independently. Then from there, babies slowly learn to stand up on their own and soon after that they are learning how to walk. In the womb babies have the buoyance to walk, but they lack the ability until much later on in infancy. Walking is a complicated process that does not just involve walking. Babies must learn their environment firs. By environment I mean that babies must learn how to adapt to different size steepness of …show more content…
By a babies’ first year, walking becomes more natural and then by their second year of life, toddlers are able to run, walk backwards, jump into place, and kick a ball without falling (Santrock 150). Their motor skills drastically increase and are able to do more with their hands and feet by childhood walking becomes a thoughtless action. As a child ages, their gross motor skills get better as well. At age 3, children are able to hope and jump by age 4, “they scramble over low jungle gums as they display their athletic prowess” (Santrock 152) Lastly at age 5, they have mastered climbing. Spots can also help young children better develop their gross motor skills because of the variety of physical motion needed to play. Our gross motor skills usually stop developing by the age of 30. This is because the body starts to decline physically. When it comes to sports though, the athletes’ peaks are different. Like swimming has a peak age of late teens, while runners have a peak in their mid-twenties. As we age to adulthood, the body stops working as well as its use, starts to have slower movements along with slower reflex to grasping