Developmental milestones mark the significant progress children make throughout their early years. This Redleaf Quick Guide describes the important milestones child care providers observe as children grow from infants to early school age children in four developmental domains--physical/motor, social/emotional, language, and cognitive. Developmental Milestones of Young Children will help you: understand stages and milestones in children's development observe and document children's progress with proper technique develop partnerships and establish communication with families This handbook is not meant to be a diagnostic tool for children with developmental delays. Instead, it serves as a guide to the benchmarks of typical development for each age and stage that almost all children go through. Maintain good documentation with the Developmental Milestones Observational Record, a tool that can be used with this book to add consistency and validity to children's records.