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 ...

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 ...

Key Takeaways The CDC uses milestones to track how the typical child develops, but pediatricians have a more nuanced view of ...

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 ...