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What should a child be able to do in 2 years?

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Last reviewed: 19.10.2021
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A child of two years old is a great researcher and a very creative person. At this age the child grows and recovers not so intensively as a year ago. But his brain, motor and physical skills are developing very actively. What should a child be able to do in 2 years?

Physical development of the child in 2 years

At this age it is important to develop the child's physical skills: movement, coordination, coordination of fine motor skills. The more the child trains, the better the results he will show. Motion coordination skills include motor skills - small and large.

Large baby's motor skills in 2 years

This includes the ability to control your body in space. It's running, jumping, walking, turning. What can a child in 2 years of motor skills?

  • Run
  • Go up the stairs - up and down
  • Jump or go through the hoop
  • To avoid or jump over an obstacle that lies on a hard surface
  • Jump on one leg (especially girls)
  • March
  • Kicking the ball
  • To go backwards forward
  • Standing on the crossbar, keep the balance

Child's fine motor skills in 2 years

To the small motor skills of the baby is what he can do with his hands - fingers, palms, fists. This skill should be combined with visual coordination - without it, the kid can not accurately determine the location of objects and manage them. The skills of small child's motor skills in 2 years include:

  • Drawing a vertical line
  • The child can build a tower from a designer or cubes (it is controlled with cubes - up to 6 pieces)
  • Cut the paper, and the scissors should be small, childlike, with rounded ends

Parents should know that at the age of 2 years the baby already has preferences, which hand to act - right or left. Watch your child - with which hand does he take a pencil or pen. With what hand does he grab a spoon, what kind of a ball does the ball hit. So you can determine what your baby is growing - right-handed or left-handed.

If the child has equally good control of his hands, it means that his left and right hemispheres work well. Such children are called ambidextra. This is a very rare feature. More clearly you can determine who your child is - a left-hander or a right-hander - by the time he turns 5.

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How to develop the child's motor skills in 2 years?

First of all, you need to give him the opportunity to do something all the time with his hands. For the development of fine motor skills, the child will be happy to draw or make something from cubes. The fact is that between the small movements of the hand and the development of speech there is a close relationship.

According to scientists, in the cerebral cortex of children there are zones that control the fine motor skills of the hands. These zones are the neighbors of those responsible for the development of speech. Both those and other zones interact with each other, therefore, developing skills of manual labor, it is possible to develop and skills of correct, rich speech.

Intellectual development of a child in 2 years

Intellectual development of the child in 2 years assumes active cognitive processes. The child at this age is studying very much, learns, so it develops very quickly. Speech, attention, thinking, perception, memory develop at this age by leaps and bounds compared to the same processes in an adult. What kind of intellectual skills does a child have in 2 years?

  • The child can dance to the music, well distinguishing her melody and rhythm
  • The child understands simple requests and commands of adults according to which it is necessary to execute up to three simple actions
  • The child already remembers children's poems and songs and even quotes them to adults
  • The child tries to disassemble the toy to see what is inside it
  • A child of 2 years old is already available up to 200 words (girls say earlier and more)
  • A child of 2 years old can already speak with short sentences

At this age, it is very important to develop the child's speech skills, because speech is one of the most important indicators of intelligence. Therefore, the age period from 2 to 3 years in psychology is considered sensitive. During this period, the child's speech skills are actively developing.

The child's brain most quickly learns the words of the native language at this age. If you teach a child at this age and other languages, then their study will go very quickly, just super-fast.

The child at the age of two digests several components of speech at once: the rules for constructing sentences, the correct pronunciation of sounds and syllables, coherent speech, understanding speech, and distinguishing individual words in the flow of sentences. If the child does not speak at the age of 2, you need to see a doctor: maybe the baby has a slow development or there was a stressful situation that affected his speech skills not in the best way.

We need to read more fairy tales for children, sing songs, communicate with them - and his speech will develop much faster.

Social skills of the child in 2 years

The social development of a child in 2 years is his communication skills and skills. That is - how much the child is ready to communicate with people, animals, their little peers. From this in the future depends on his success in his personal life, career, friendship. Self-service skills for a child in 2 years is becoming more. What should a child be able to do in 2 years from the field of social skills?

  • Independently go to the pot or ask if necessary
  • Try to dress yourself or help mom and dad when dressing him, for example, for a walk or kindergarten
  • Independently remove socks
  • Wash the handles and wipe them with a towel
  • Itself is from a spoon and drink from a cup
  • Be able to hold a toothbrush in your hand and try to brush your teeth with your mom or dad
  • Talk on the phone, imitating the behavior of an adult
  • Answer simple questions

A child of 2 years old is already a very smart kid. His behavior may seem funny, but it is the behavior of a person who comprehends very much in a very short period. Parents should respect this work.

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