Exploring the Process of Child Development Between 1 to 2 Years

The period between 1 and 2 years is one of the quickest transformations. At that time your baby will learn to walk and explore the world. Becoming the parents of a child becomes very challenging and highly demanding in a diverse way as it’s essential for you to think about your safety and security. Moreover, it’s also vital setting the restrictions also caring and being affectionate towards your baby. Some parents miss their little baby and some others are delighted that their baby has some more liberty.

Emotional and Social Growth

It is stated in the course of the current year that your baby knows that very well that he or she is a totally different person from you. This not only enables him or her to be concerned regarding the prospect of you going away from him or her. In addition to that, he or she is much for concerned regarding the terms ‘I’, ‘Me’ and ‘Myself’. The entire idea of possessing something firstly requires having an identity to possess it. Having his or her very own way or stating the fact ‘mine’ is a way of coming to grasp with this fantastic and more like scary brand new initiative. It is very difficult to understand what the actual fact is unless you also are sure what it is not. So your child may face the vice versa, most probably the diverse of whatever you are advising at the time.

However, they can sometimes understand several words. At the age of 2, babies are unable to catch non figurative perception. They remain as severely solid thinkers. Your baby sometimes does not reply to verbal instructions and requires being diverted, taken away or picked up much often. Although, he seems to catch the term ‘no’, but he is not able to manage his desire enough to act upon. Parenting an 18 month old is really highly demanded physically.

• Your baby will be full of strength and interested but he is dependent on the presence of an adult to obtain the guarantee and requires lots of awareness from the adult.
• You baby is really emotionally involved and highly reliant on parents as a result of which they are more likely to be scared of divorce. Besides, the baby does not still completely understand whether you will come back or not.
• He gets pleasure from playing with an adult and is really fond of games that are played repetitively.
• He portrays curiosity in other babies, conversely normally plays alone.
• At this age he is not aware of sharing his stuffs such as toys etc with other children. Moreover, the baby must not be expected to share the things at any cost.
• He will try to copy the deeds and games of other children, for example- having a conversation on a toy telephone.
• He might be a lot more accommodating in dress up due to the interest to copy the adults and ‘do it myself’.
• He might desire to get everything accurate and be the victim of intolerable annoyance, if he is unable to complete or do the task.
• His capability to feed himself is gradually enhancing and therefore he is more likely to be selective about what he eats.

Developing the level of understanding

At the age of 2 toddlers still do not have the capability to view the world in perception. Your baby is learning and trying to recognize the things that are individual, from the root level. The perception related to distance and time that is too far, too fast, too slow etc. All these terms are outside of his clutch, sometimes to the aggravation of his parents for whom these are authentic perceptions. However, the baby is trying his best to sort out the objects she views into comprehensible teams.

At the very beginning these teams may come out as relatively slack. For instance- if the baby sees a cat then he is more likely to pronounce cat. If he sees a dog he is likely to say dog, as he remembers its shape, color and the tail. Moreover, he can also remember the barking sound of the dog. It’s totally amazing seeing the observation power he brings to this task of managing the objects, animals and characters they mostly come across in their world.

• His capability to remember the objects is enhancing. This may enable him to think before acting or doing anything. For example- remembering something is cold.
• His power or capability to distinguish between similarities and dissimilarities enhance between the age of 18 months and 2 years. Therefore, he will be more curious to categorize things into groups like blocks, animals, cars etc.
• Your baby also starts to find out what are the things that belong together like selecting papa’s shoes, placing the crayons along with the paper.
• Your baby will start trying to match and fit and will be capable of finishing some uncomplicated puzzles like shapes or animals who are recognizable.
• She will observe, remember and try to copy the previous events.
• She is going to enjoy simple games, such as hide and seek.
• You baby has less understanding regarding time and is completely unable to understand the meaning of tomorrow. It is really tough for him to catch complicated words such as empty, pretty, heavy. Moreover, she is not capable of pronouncing the words she haven’t seen, touched or picked up.
• She has no actual realization, recognition or understanding of space and size and might be scared of falling down a plug hole in the toilet or bath.

Physical skills

The quickly enhancing movement of the baby in this year can signify the most important reformation of the house. The baby starts from teetering or crawling within a restricted space to walking with full of confidence and discovering largely, dragging open all the handles and twiddling all the knobs mostly of the doors he can see. It may be useful to eradicate or protect fragile or weighty items, due to safety and security reasons, leaving appealing indestructible in reachable positions.

Try to focus on your use of language, exceptionally in the use of words that are pessimistic such as ‘don’t’ and ‘no’, because it will have a strong impact on your baby’s point of view about himself and the entire world. Parents will definitely want to portray a positive picture of the world towards their baby, rather than paint a negative one. So, while advising, try to recommend the alternatives and describe the risks as simply as you can. Every now and then if you have to use the negative terms such as don’t do this or don’t touch this then it is indeed very harmful for your child.