A normally growing child smiles back (social smile) at the following age?
Correct Answer: 6-8 weeks
Description: SOCIAL AND ADAPTIVE MILESTONES: 2 months: social smile (smile after being talked to). 3 months: Recognizes mother, anticipates feeds. 4 months: Holds rattle when placed in hand and regards it. Laughs aloud. Excited at the sight of food. 6 months: recognizes strangers, stranger anxiety. Enjoy watching own image in the mirror, shows displeasure when toy pulled off. 9 months: waves bye bye 12 months: comes when called, plays a simple ball game. Kisses the parent on request. Makes postural adjustments for dressing. 15 months: jargon, stas imitating mother. 18 months: copies parents in tasking, dry by day, points to three pas of the body on request. 2 years: ask for food, drink, toilet, pulls people to show toys. 3 years: shares toys, know full name and gender, dry by night. 4 years: Plays cooperatively in a group, goes to the toilet alone, washes face, brushes teeth. Roleplay. 5 years: helps in the household task, dresses, and undresses Ref: Ghai Essential Pediatrics, Ninth Edition, pg no. 48.
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