What's Your Child Development IQ? Test Your Milestones Knowledge
A child development quiz that tests how well someone knows the developmental milestones of the first five years. Ten questions cover the first social smile, babbling, object permanence, independent walking, two-word phrases, parallel play, brain growth, serve-and-return interaction, tantrums and screen-time guidance — each with an explanation revealed after the answer, so the quiz teaches as it scores. A natural lead magnet for parenting coaches, early-years educators, doulas and family therapis…
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About this template
What's Your Child Development IQ? Test Your Milestones Knowledge is a free quiz template with 10 questions. Take the live preview above, then copy it into your own RooQuiz account — the questions, results and follow-up are all yours to edit before you publish.
What's inside: 10 questions
Every question below comes with the template, in this order. After you copy it, you can reword, reorder or remove any of them.
- At roughly what age does a baby produce their first true social smile — smiling back at a familiar face?Right after birth · Around 2 months · Around 6 months · Around 12 months
- When do most babies start babbling with repeated consonant sounds like "bababa" or "dadada"?Around 2 months · Around 4 months · Around 6 months · Around 14 months
- Object permanence — knowing a toy still exists after you hide it under a blanket — typically emerges around:Around 3 months · Around 8 months · Around 18 months · Around 3 years
- By what age do about three quarters of children take a few steps without holding on?By 8 months · By 11 months · By 15 months · By 24 months
- Most toddlers begin combining words into two-word phrases like "more milk" or "daddy go" around:12 months · 24 months · 36 months · 48 months
- A two-year-old plays happily next to another child with similar toys, but not really with them. This is called:Solitary play · Cooperative play · Parallel play · Associative regression
- By age 5, a child's brain has reached roughly what share of its adult volume?About 25% · About 50% · About 90% · About 100%
- In developmental science, what does "serve and return" describe?A method for teaching toddlers to catch a ball · The back-and-forth interaction between a child and a responsive caregiver · Alternating discipline between two parents · Returning to a milestone the child has skipped
- At what age are temper tantrums most common?6 to 12 months · 2 to 3 years · 5 to 6 years · 7 to 8 years
- True or false: for children under 18 months, pediatric guidance generally recommends avoiding screen media other than video chatting with family.
Result levels
The total score places each respondent in one of 3 levels, each with its own message on the result page.
Curious Beginner
Score below 50You are just getting started with child development — and you now know more than when you began. The milestones above are the ones worth remembering.
Solid Knowledge
Score 50–80You have a good working grasp of how children develop. A few of the finer points — timing of object permanence, parallel play, brain growth — are worth a second look.
Child Development Pro
Score 80+Excellent. You know the milestones and, more importantly, the principles behind them. This is the kind of knowledge that makes parents, educators and coaches genuinely useful to families.
How scoring works
Each question has one correct answer and a point value. Correct answers add up to a total score, the total decides the level, and each answer can show a short explanation so people learn as they play.
How to use this template
- Answer the live preview yourself to see exactly what a respondent sees, question by question.
- Copy it into your account — the questions, scoring logic and result pages all come with it.
- Rewrite the copy, add your own branding and call to action, then publish it on your own link or embed it on your site.