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Milestones - toddler 12-18 months
Here is a brief guide to how your toddler is developing and learning at 12 to 18 months.
Guess what? You now have a toddler on your hands! If you have never had children before - this is a whole new stage. Your baby will turn into a walking, talking dynamo. Take a good look at safety in the home during this stage because toddlers have the curiosity and new physical abilities that can get them into trouble.
Motor Development
- If he hasn't already mastered walking, this is the time your child will learn to walk alone
- Between 15 - 18 months, your toddler may learn to ride a four-wheel toy
- Begins to hold 2-3 objects in one hand
- Begins to building towers with 2-3 blocks
- Rolls a ball
- Learns to place a loose fitting lid on a box
- Places a round shape in a foam board puzzle (around 16 months)
- Throws a ball while standing or sitting
- Pulls toys that are on wheels
- Drinks from a cup
- Scribbles, scribbles and scribbles some more!
- At around 18 months of age, he may enjoy using shape sorters and learning about what goes where
Intellectual and Language Development
- Continues to learn that objects are used for a particular purpose. For example, uses a toy phone like a real phone
- Begins to know the names of body parts
- Brings favorite book to parents to read
- By 16 months, she may clearly speak about 6 or 7 words
- Delights in covering face and laughing out loud when playing peek-a-boo
- Points to where eyes and mouth are
- Asks you for something by pointing at it
- Enjoys putting objects in containers and dumping them out--and doing this over and over again
- Towards 18 months, your toddler's language will really take off. She may learn several new words a day; however, they may not be clearly spoken
- "No" becomes a favorite word
Social and Emotional Development
- Your child's personality is really emerging
- Laughs out loud when playing chasing or hiding games
- Learns to follow simple directions such as "come here," "show me," and "look"
- Shows or hands toys to grownups
- Watches other children or grownups and attempts to copy what they're doing
- Towards 18 months, your toddler may become frustrated and begin having tantrums related to this frustration
- Doesn't understand the idea of sharing yet - but continue to role model this
- Will definitely let you know what she does and does not enjoy eating
- Starts cooperating by taking shoes and hats off
- Becomes over tired easily - 50% of 1-2 year old's are fussy at bedtime
- Will look for a grown up when left alone in a room
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