Your child is now enjoying her new found independence. Here we have attempted to help you know more about her growth and development on turning 9 years, 3-months-old.Your 9 years, 3-month-old child is now better capable of handling her conflicts and frustrations. She is trying to develop and mature emotionally and is also taking into consideration values and feelings of others. She can now try and understand things from others perspectives. She feels good helping others and this shall help her get into preteen or the
teen years.
Exercises shall continue to benefit her and she shall want to assert her growing independence in her games and plays. She will look for emotional reassurances from you and her dad from time to time.
Social Development of Your Kid
She shall feel more secured when you follow a predictable routine. However, be prepared to deal with her moodiness. While you may see her cheerful one moment, you may also find her quite and secluded the other moment. She shall love to make friends, but also engage in occasional conflicts with them.
New Found Independence
She shall develop more independence now and need not look for your support all the time. She shall be prepared to do her things emotionally now. She shall love watching movies with you or her friends. She shall develop close and
emotional bonding with her immediate family and friends outside her family.
She shall have her own opinions and choices now. Be prepared if you find her differing from what you and your spouse thinks.
Asserting Self Confidence
She shall show an innate desire to fit into different situations and also feel embarrassed or upset to accept a defeat.
Self
criticism and self doubt shall be some aspects of her nature now. She shall value the opinions of her friends and feel attached to them emotionally.
Those with stronger
self esteem shall be able to handle peer pressures and embarrassments better. You can teach her the importance of thinking independently and doing what she thinks is right. You need to let her know how natural it is to be different and follow one’s own instincts. You must encourage her to make healthy choice of food and help her friends to make wise choices as well.
Dealing With Stress
Children too go through stressful times like us. Your kid may be stressed dealing with increasing pressures and challenges from the school activities. Encourage her to take part in
extracurricular activities like music or dance. She shall learn to persevere and be patient while practicing these activities. Help her structure her different activities throughout the day and make sure she is not reeling under pressure from too much of engagements.
She is now getting slowly aware of the disasters and dangers in the world. You may find her anxious about natural disasters and crimes. Fear about ghosts and monsters are also common now. These too can result in stress. You need to talk to her and help deal with her fears.
Healthy Habits
Ensuring basic hygiene, good food, sleep and exercises are other concerns that you should be careful of. She must not forget to keep up her basic standards of hygiene and eat well. Obesity can be kept at bay with healthy lifestyle and good diet. Too much of television is also known to have negative effects on the health and mind, so, parental guidance is essential when it comes to choosing the programmes wisely. An emotionally disturbing program can also upset your little one. So be careful!
You can only encourage her to take up a new activity. Do not push her into something she does not show any interest in. She may end up losing it and no longer have any love for it later.
Is your child developing socially? What are the different ways to support growth and development of child during teen years? Why is it important for parents to support kids during puberty and adolescence? Discuss here. 
