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:
- Toys that help refine eye-hand coordination
- Slow, battery-powered ride-ons
- Grow-with-me ride-on toys
- Cars, trucks, trains and other vehicles
- Toys to encourage early learning
- Construction and building playsets
Got a parenting challenge? Some of the best advice and ideas comes from other parents who’ve been through it already.
Pacifiers - help him stop!
From Pamela in Gardendale
My 2-year-old son uses his pacifier at naptime and bedtime. But now that he can say the word "paci", he wants it all the time. I really hoped I could break him of the habit, but now it seems impossible. Sometimes he even steals his baby brother's pacifier and sticks it in his own mouth!
