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Learning Limits
Toddlers, Development and Discipline
By Kelly Burgess
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Realistic Expectations: The Toddler Years
Between their first and second birthdays, children are:
- Energetic, busy and curious;
- Self-centered;
- Eager to be independent and to do things for themselves;
- Expected to have short attention spans if they are not involved in an activity that interests them;
- Beginning to see how they are like and unlike other children;
- Increasing their spoken vocabularies from about two or three words to about 250 words and understand more of what people say to them.
Between their second and third birthdays, children:
- Become more aware of others;
- Become more aware of their own feelings and thoughts;
- Are often stubborn and may have temper tantrums;
- Expand their spoken vocabularies from about 250 to 1,000 words during the year;
- Put together two-, three- and four-word spoken sentences;
- Begin to choose favorite stories and books to hear read aloud;
- Begin to count;
- Begin to distinguish between drawing and writing;
- Begin to scribble, making some marks that are like letters.
Source: The U.S. Department of Education
