As your child starts school, she'll be walking and running well, will be able to climb a ladder and get around most pieces of playground equipment.
Over the next three years your child will learn to ride a bike and have the co-ordination to play football, learn dance steps and swim.
You'll be enjoying quite complicated conversations with your child aged four to five. This will be followed rapidly by early reading and counting skills.
Sounding out written words and printing letters will start at around five to six years. These skills really take off in the sixth and seventh years.
By four years of age you won't need nappies during the day and night times will probably be dry too.
Help will still be needed for thorough teeth cleaning
Your help will no longer be needed for dressing and undressing by the time your child is five to six years of age, and you can rely on her to wash her own hands and face at around the same age. Your help will still be needed for thorough teeth cleaning, though.
Bathing with care won't be learnt until about the age of eight but your child will be giving these skills a try by age six.
Your budding artist will have sorted out whether she's right or left-handed by five years of age and will be able to create drawings with some detail, including people and houses, in the fifth and sixth years.
Play time will start to involve games with rules such as hopscotch, bat and ball games, and simple board games as your child reaches six and seven years. Pretend play will flourish in these years - dressing up and acting out a character will be favourites. Alongside understanding the rules of games your child will recognise some rules for behaviour at home and school.
The sleep your child needs will fall from 11.5 hours a night at four years old to 10.5 by age seven.
The information provided should be used as a guide only. Children develop at different stages, but if you're concerned, contact your doctor or health professional