All About Play
How your child plays now:
- He is very mobile. He can walk forward, sideways and backward. He can run.
- He can pull a toy on a string or manage a push-a-long.
- He can use his feet to scoot along on a cycle.
- He combines wrist-moving with letting go.
- He can put any shape in his sorter and throw a ball.
- He can put one block on top of another.
- He may have a vocabulary of 50 to 200 words. Some weeks he may add lots of new words, others none at all.
- He is constantly trying and practicing.
- He can follow simple directions.
Why your child will enjoy these toys now:
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Your Toddler's Mind: 18 to 24 Months
Fisher-Price® Parenting Guide CD-ROM
Between 18 and 24 months, your child learns more about spatial relationships. First, she sees differences between shapes. She can distinguish a circle from a square. Then she develops the eye hand coordination to fit shapes together. By 24 months, she will be able to put together several large pi...
