Your Baby at 6 Months
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social/Emotional
o Knows familiar faces and begins to know if someone is a stranger
o Likes to play with others, especially parents
o Responds to other people’s emotions and often seems happy
o Likes to look at self in a mirror
Language/Communication
o Responds to sounds by making sounds
o Strings vowels together when babbling (“ah,” “eh,” “oh”) and likes taking turns with parent while making sounds
o Responds to own name
o Makes sounds to show joy and displeasure
o Begins to say consonant sounds (jabbering with “m,” “b”)
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
o Looks around at things nearby
o Brings things to mouth
o Shows curiosity about things and tries to get things that are out of reach
o Begins to pass things from one hand to the other
Movement/Physical Development
o Rolls over in both directions (front to back, back to front)
o Begins to sit without support
o When standing, supports weight on legs and might bounce
o Rocks back and forth, sometimes crawling backward before moving forward
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