What are the developmental milestones for children 3 to 5 years olds?

What are the developmental milestones for children 3 to 5 years olds?

Scott Cohen (Pediatrician, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: Is it normal to not always understand what my 2 year old is saying?; What are the developmental milestones for children 3 to 5 years olds? and more...

The developmental milestone from 3 to 5 years of age is that at that age, the child is really at the peak of imagination. This is the milestone when children start to have imaginary friends, monsters in the closet and under the bed; they start complaining of increase in nightmares and night terrors, all very normal and you just support them in all their imaginary endeavours. It's also when they reach the milestone that their speech becomes much more articulate, full sentences. You know at two when we only had 5% of speech intelligible to strangers, by 3 we were up to 75%, and then by 4 we have 100% of speech intelligible to strangers. Even past this milestone, there are going to be some words that are a little lispy, a little slurred and that's normal but those will greatly decrease after the age of 4. This is also the age where they pass the milestone of doing improved school-type activities, using scissors, drawing different shapes, the milestone of circles at age 3, moving to the milestone of squares and triangles and diamonds as they get older. So a lot more of school age behaviour, and really interacting with you and telling you stories, telling you about their day. Really a lot of fun between age 3 and age 5.