Main stages of dynamic balance development
Children under the age of 4 must learn how to control their body and move in any given direction by slowly waddling forward on 2 feet.
At 4-years-old, a child can walk, putting one foot in front of the other, on a path measuring at least a foot and a half wide.
At 6-years-old, children can walk with one foot directly in front of the other, heel to toe, on a path as wide as their foot.
Psychomotor development:
Kids' psychomotor development is based on genetics, motor skills, and psychology.
A product can influence the psychomotor development of a child if it affects their motor skills.
This motor area has several large components: body mapping, dynamic coordination, balance, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and temporal and spatial structuring.
Body map
The body map refers to a child's perception of their body, which allows them to master their movements and develop self awareness. It is developed based on sensations and actions ("a body that feels, moves"), before being represented and described ("bodily representation", drawing of a person). The more a child moves, the more they learn to refine their body map and the better they're able to move.
Hand-eye coordination
Hand-eye coordination includes actions required for aiming with part or all of your body: for young children, following a trajectory, then aiming first at large objects and targets, with the hands and feet, before moving on to smaller and smaller objects and targets as they learn to control their fingers: playing the piano, threading beads on a string, writing.
Time and spatial awareness
Time and space awareness includes everything that involves a child's perception of themselves in time
(before/after, rhythmic activity, day/night, seasons, etc.) and space (in front/behind, on/under,
right/left, etc.)
