2 year old child care: Your toddler’s developmental milestones at 2 years

Your toddler’s developmental milestones at 2 years

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Everything you need to know about your growing 2-year-old.

By the age of 2, your toddler is talking, walking, climbing, jumping, running and bustling with energy. Your child now has a growing vocabulary and acquires new words on a regular basis. She/he can sort shapes and colours and may even show an interest in potty training. As your little one grows more independent, she/he may show signs of defiance as she/he begins to push boundaries and explore the world around her/him.

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Social and emotional milestones at 2 years

Some of the ways you’ll see your little one learning to connect with the people around him at 2 years:

• Likes to copy adults and other children.
• Gets excited when he’s with other children.
• He is more independent, even more defiant.

Tips for parents

• Find opportunities to engage in play and conversations with your toddler. Playtime could be as simple as rolling a ball back and forth, handing you their toys or helping you with safe activities like folding clothes with your supervision. These types of activities can help develop pro-social behaviours by fostering a sense of belonging and collaboration with others.

Language and communication milestones at 2 years

How your toddler is expressing her needs:

• Says short sentences with two to four words.
• Points to things when they are named.
• Knows familiar body parts.
• Recognizes familiar people.
• Repeats words she has overheard and follows simple instructions.

Tips for parents

• When taking her for a walk, tell her the names of things you see.

Brain development milestones at 2 years

How your child’s brain is growing:

• Starts to sort shapes and colours.
• Can find things hidden under multiple layers. 
• Completes sentences in familiar books.
• Plays simple make-believe games.
• Builds towers with four or more blocks.
• Can follow two-step instructions. 
• May start to develop a dominant hand.

Tips for parents

• Encourage him to go looking around the room for objects you hide and give him hints. 

Movement and physical development milestones at 2 years

How she’ll move through her environment:

• Can run, kick a ball and throw a ball overhead.
• Is starting to run.
• Climbs up and down from furniture without assistance.
• Makes or copies straight lines and circles. 

Tips for parents

• Create little fine-motor skills challenges for your toddler, like asking her to turn the page of a book.

Food and nutrition milestones at 2 years

What mealtimes look like at 2 years:

• Chews with full jaw movements.
• Uses utensils with some spills. 

Tips for parents

• Be calm and accepting. Give your child positive attention when he does eat, but don’t make it a problem when he doesn’t eat. Just take the food away, cover it, and offer it to him again a bit later. 

Things to look out for

While all children develop differently, you should speak to your paediatrician if your 2-year-old:

• Doesn’t know how to use common objects.
• Doesn’t use two-word phrases.
• Doesn’t copy actions or repeat words.
• Doesn’t follow basic directions. 
• Can’t walk steadily. 
• Loses skills she once had.

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Developmental Milestones: 2 Year Olds

What are some of the developmental milestones my child should reach by two years of age?

Your baby enters her second year and becomes a toddler, crawling vigorously, starting to walk, even talking a little. Exploring the boundaries established by your rules and her own physical and developmental limits will occupy much of her time for the next few years.

Here are some other milestones to look for.

Movement milestones

• Walks alone

• Pulls toys behind her while walking

• Carries large toy or several toys while walking

• Begins to run

• Stands on tiptoe

• Kicks a ball

• Climbs onto and down from furniture unassisted

• Walks up and down stairs holding on to support

Milestones in hand and finger skills

• Scribbles spontaneously
• Turns over container to pour out contents
• Builds tower of four blocks or more
• Might use one hand more frequently than the other

Language milestones

• Points to object or picture when it’s named for him

• Recognizes names of familiar people, objects, and body parts

• Says several single words (by fifteen to eighteen months)

• Uses simple phrases (by eighteen to twenty-four months)

• Uses two- to four-word sentences

• Follows simple instructions

• Repeats words overheard in conversation

Cognitive milestones

• Finds objects even when hidden under two or three covers

• Begins to sort by shapes and colors

• Begins make-believe play

Social and emotional milestones

• Imitates behavior of others, especially adults and older children

• Increasingly aware of herself as separate from others

• Increasingly enthusiastic about company of other children

• Demonstrates increasing independence

• Begins to show defiant behavior

• Increasing episodes of separation anxiety toward midyear, then they fade

Developmental health watch

Because each child develops at his own particular pace, it’s impossible to tell exactly when yours will perfect a given skill. The developmental milestones will give you a general idea of the changes you can expect as your child gets older, but don’t be alarmed if he takes a slightly different course. Alert your pediatrician, however, if he displays any of the following signs of possible developmental delay for this age range.

• Cannot walk by eighteen months

• Fails to develop a mature heel-toe walking pattern after several months of walking, or walks exclusively on his toes

• Does not speak at least fifteen words by eighteen months

• Does not use two-word sentences by age two

• Does not seem to know the function of common household objects (brush, telephone, bell, fork, spoon) by fifteen months

• Does not imitate actions or words by the end of this period

• Does not follow simple instructions by age two

• Cannot push a wheeled toy by age two

Last Updated

6/1/2009

Source

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (Copyright © 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics)

The information contained on this Web site should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician. There may be variations in treatment that your pediatrician may recommend based on individual facts and circumstances.

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