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Your Baby Isn’t Behind

“When parents today worry about their child not meeting developmental norms, especially for motor skills, they’re too often worrying needlessly,” writes Nicholas Day.
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“In our what-to-expect era, when baby Web sites offer weekly, birthdate-timed developmental newsletters, parents can hardly avoid knowing where their child falls on the developmental spectrum,” writes Nicholas Day. “But when parents today worry about their child not meeting developmental norms, especially for motor skills, they’re too often worrying needlessly. The typical child, it turns out, is a myth. But someone forgot to tell the parents.”

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