Kids grow faster than parents ever expect. Before you know it, they’ve outgrown their cot, pram and high chair. But how can parents tell when it’s time to move on from them, and how they foster their child’s development? Before you decide that a certain piece of baby furniture has outlived its usefulness, you should assess the child’s level of cognitive and motor development, advises Dana Mundt, a social educator for Germany’s Federal Conference for Child Guidance Counselling (bke). “Every child has their own pace of development,” she says, so parents shouldn’t compare a child with siblings or…