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Baby is born!
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12-15 months (cognitive)
-The "passive" phase of language acquisition
-Soaking up all the words and speech around her, and filing the information away for later use
-Can probably communicate her needs with gestures,sounds, and body positions
-Around 13 months, many toddlers have vocabularies that consist of three or four words. Yours can probably say "mama" or "dada," and something like "ta ta," for thank you, "ba" for bottle or ball, and "bye-bye." -
12-15 months (physical)
-When it's considered normal to begin walking
-A child who walks as early as 9 months or as late as 18 months is right on schedule -
16-18 months (cogntive)
- Babble with an occasional recognizable word mixed in -Learn to say one word clearly and then add another, slowly building up a vocabulary -May use one word for days or weeks and then suddenly drop it.
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16-18 months (physical)
- 90 percent of 17-month-olds are walking well enough that they're able to walk, squat down to pick an object up off of the floor — or stoop to play with it for a minute or so — -This month, then, is a period of fine-tuning and combining skills
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19-21 months (cognitive)
-The vocabulary of a typical 19-month-old toddler may consist of as few as ten words or as many as 50.
-May be able to link two or more words together, and is starting to use more "action" words. Verbs like "go" and "jump" are common, and so is linking a verb with her name (or pronoun), as in "Come me," meaning "Come with me."
-Learn by touching, holding, and moving objects from one place to another. They struggle to push or pull heav-learn by touching, holding, and moving objects -
19-21 months (physical)
- Toddler may be drawing vertical and horizontal lines, and maybe even a circle, although scribbling is still mostly all they do
- These drawings may seem simple, but they're a sign that many aspects of a child's development are on track -Drawing with a crayon involves fine motor skills such as grasping and holding, as well as hand-eye coordination and imagination.
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22-24 months (cognitive)
-Can probably follow a simple two-step command such as "Come here and sit down so I can tie your shoes."
- Vocabulary likely includes at least 20 words that toddler can say clearly (and many more that are harder to understand)
-Toddler may utter short sentences, like "Juice all gone," or "Dog run out."
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22-24 months (physical)
-Chances are the todder can now run, walk on its tiptoes, avoid obstacles that block its path, sit and stand quickly, and walk backward and sideways
-may even be coordinated and strong enough to pedal a tricycle, and can probably toss a ball into a container with a large opening, like a laundry or garbage basket.
-Many toddlers are physically ready to start potty training now -
24-30 (cognitive)
-Child is developing his associative skills between objects and their functions at this stage
-Child is progressing in his development of sounds and his grammatical sentences at this stage. -
24-30 months (physical)
-Child now probably handles small objects with ease.
-He can stack blocks, knock over towers, pull off his shoes, turn book pages, and hold a cup with one hand. He might
even be able to balance on one foot for a second or take a big jump forward with his feet together. -
30-36 months (cognitive)
-A lively imagination often gives temporary birth to monsters, dragons, ghosts, and other mysterious creatures of the dark. Fear of the dark is common as a child's mind becomes capable of inventing its own stories. (You can actually think of night fears — the result of an overactive imagination — as a sophisticated cognitive development.) -
30-36 months (physical)
-He can scribble with a crayon and copy an X or an O. By the end of the year he will hold the crayon between his thumb and fingers, not in his fist, and he may be able to copy shapes like a square or triangle.
-Differences in height and weight widen during this year, with the average child between 39 and 46 inches tall and between 35 and 55 pounds. He may seem thin this year, until his muscles have developed enough to make up for lost baby fat. His face continues to lengthen and his upper jaw
