A baby can sit alone before he or she is able to crawl.This is true because development of gross motor skills:
A)occurs in a cephalocaudal direction.
B)occurs in a distal to proximal direction.
C)is generally the result of a baby's chronological age.
D)is simply the result of the baby's increased desire to move.

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A baby's development of gross motor skills is predictable because it follows the direction of myelinization (laying down of myelin)in the nervous system,cephalocaudal (head to foot direction),and proximodistal (central to peripheral direction,or midline before extremities).

A Baby Can Sit Alone Before He or She Is