▪️1-2 year old toddler tips
📍Did you know?
Toddlers are especially happy when they see that they are making the adults around them happy as well.
◽️Give your child things to put into containers and take out. She will try to take them out and put them back on her own, which is great for the development of eye-hand coordination skills.
◽️Give your toddler things to stack up. He should try to stack more things on his own and make them fall down, or will stack things up until they fall down.
◽️Ask your child simple questions and respond to your child’s attempts to talk. She should be willing to interact by responding and/or asking further questions.
◽️Try to talk about different realities with your infant, such as nature, pictures and things from the surrounding environment. You should see your toddler move around and be willing to explore the environment.
◽️Watch what your toddler does and name it: “You are filling the box.” He will be happy to show you what he learned and will gain self-esteem.
◽️Play with your toddler and offer help: “Let’s do it together. Here are more stones to put into your box.”These discoveries should make her happy and more confident.
◽️Use every opportunity to engage in a conversation, including when feeding or bathing, or when working near him. He should soon begin to understand what you are saying and be able to follow simple directions.
◽️Turn simple questions into games: “Where is your toe?” or “Where is the bird?”. You can look at pictures and talk about what you see. She should show more and more curiosity and willingness to communicate about what she sees and hears.
▪️2+ years old toddler tips
📍Did you know?
Children learn better when they are taught how to behave well instead of being scolded for behaving badly.
◽️Ask simple questions and listen to the answers. Encourage your child to talk: “What is this?”, “Where is the window?”, “Which ball is bigger?”, “Would you like the red cup?”. You should see your child’s growing interest in interacting with you and responding to your questions.
◽️Read stories to your child and ask questions about what you see in the book. You should notice your child memorizes and tries to repeat what you read.
◽️Help your child learn to count by asking “how many” and counting things together. Your child will make mistakes at first, but learn from repeating things many times.
◽️Offer your child circles and other shapes cut from coloured paper to compare and sort. She should be happy to try sorting things and will learn how to match and make relationships between different objects, colours and shapes.
Yours, William Ava
Child psychologist