BABYSITTERS NEED TO BE AWARE OF HOW CHILDREN DEVELOP

Unless babysitters understand what young children can and cannot do at certain ages, they will not be able to understand the behavior of their charges or how to choose appropriate activities for them. In Chapter 2, a detailed list of the skills children should have acquired by the ages of fifteen months, two-and-a-half years, and five years are spelled out for ten important skill areas: listening, thinking, fine motor, social, self-help, selfesteem, speaking, prereading, math, and gross motor.