Development Milestones for 2 year old kids
This information is brought to you by Enfagrow. As children enter their second year and become toddlers, they begin reaching key development milestones from crawling vigorously, walking and talking. This is the time when they begin to explore the boundaries established by your rule as well as their own physical and developmental limits. These little cuties now start developing their own character and traits and start blossoming into little people with independent personalities. Here’s a look at the key development milestones for 2 year old kids:
#1. Physical milestones: physical development includes both gross motor and fine motor skills.
Gross motor skill milestones:- Can walk alone, stands on tiptoes
- Pulls toys behind while walking
- Begins to run
- Carries large toy or several toys while walking
- Kicks a ball
- Climbs onto and down from furniture on his/her own
- Walks up and down stairs holding on to support
Fine motor skill milestones:
- Scribbles on walls/paper
- Turns over container to pour out contents
- Builds tower of four blocks or more
- May use one one hand more frequently than the other
- May pull pants up and down
- Turn on the tap and wash hands
- Can hold utensils and crayons with fingers instead of a fist, although the grasp still may not be just right
#2. Language milestones:
- Points to object or picture when the name of the object is called out
- Recognizes names of familiar people, objects, and body parts
- Your child will be saying many single words by fifteen to eighteen months)By 2 years of age babies may master around 40 to 50 words.
- Some common words they may use include mommy, daddy, milk, hello, bye-bye, yes, no etc
- They will understand longer instructions, such as 'make teddy jump' or 'where's your doll?
- Your little one is no longer babbling. By eighteen to twenty-four month most children will begin putting together longer sentences such as "Mommy, I want milk" rather than just, "Milk Mommy."). Your baby will also begin to use pronouns like "I" and "me" instead of his name.
- Repeats words overheard in conversation
#3. Mental growth milestones:
- Finds objects even when they are hidden under something
- Begins to sort by shapes and colors
- Begins make-believe play
#4. Social and emotional milestones:
- Imitates behavior of others, especially adults and older children
- Starts becoming aware of himself/herself as separate from others
- Becomes increasingly enthusiastic about company of other children
- Demonstrates increasing independence, such as he/she may join other children in playing for a few minutes without you, may try and do certain things on his/her own such as trying to put on clothes or get out of them on their own
- Begins to show defiant behavior, such as may say no to many things, defend his possessions and may not want to share
- Increasing episodes of separation anxiety toward midyear,which then fade
- Cannot walk by eighteen months
- Fails to develop a mature heel-toe walking pattern after several months of walking, or walks exclusively on 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 such as 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
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