It took me a great deal of time to select a word to define. After careful thought and analyzing, I have chosen development. One reason I selected development is because of the broadness in the topic. Everyone has to experience and live through development, so people can relate to it.
             Child development begins immediately following birth until early adolescence. It begins with infancy. Some ways to define child development in this case is saying that the infant will go through stages of growing. They will grow intellectually and physically. The infant has the fastest growing rate. Their brain will grow to nine tenths the full size by the age of three. As the child gets older they will continue their developing. First they obtain gross motor skills. Gross motor skills include: walking, hopping, skipping, and others like them. This is a key part of development for children. This is where they receive the confidence needed to continue developing. After they have developed their gross motor skills, they will next develop their fine motor skills. Such examples of fine motor skills include: writing, picking up small objects, buttoning their shirts, and other challenging tasks.
             As children develop they learn to talk, walk, read, write, draw, and many other tasks. Development is a necessity in life. Without development humankind would not survive. The world would be filled with only infants and no one to take care of them. Furthermore, without development mankind would not exist, simply because the infants would not be able to fend for themselves and eventually die off.
             Development also means growing up. Everyone will someday grow up into and adult. Developing into an adult takes a great deal of time. Young boys and girls will begin, at different ages, to act more mature. This is the start of adulthood for the young adults. They will, through the process of development, grow
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