Physical development • Start walking, up and down stairs, up furniture, etc. - Balance is initially quite unstable as the leg muscles are not yet well strengthened. However, by the age of 16 months, the baby is able to walk and stand safely with much more controlled movements; • Improved fine motor skills due to practice - ability to hold an object, manipulate it, move from one hand to the other, and drop it deliberately. By age 20 months, you will be able to carry objects in your hand while walking; Intellectual Development • Increased memory development through repetition of activities - allows you to anticipate events and resume a momentarily interrupted activity to which you spend more time concentrating. Similarly, through your daily routine, the baby develops an understanding of the sequences of events that constitute his and his parents' days; • Shows greater curiosity: likes to explore its surroundings; • Includes simple orders, initially accompanied by gestures and, from 15 months, without the need to resort to gestures; • Although it may still be limited to one word at a time, the baby's language begins to acquire different voice tones to convey different meanings. Progressively, you will be able to combine loose words into 2-word sentences; • Can track simple orders such as. "give me the mug"; • The physical experiences you are doing help develop cognitive skills. For example, around 20 months; • You know that a toy hammer is a hit and you should use it now; • Can establish the relationship between a toy car and the family car; • From 20 to 24 months is also able to play pretend (eg pretends to pour tea from a teapot into a cup, put sugar and drink) - recalls a sequence of events and pretends that perform them as part of a game). The ability to play such games indicates that you are beginning to understand the difference between what is real and what is not;
Social development • Enjoys interaction with familiar adults, imitating and copying the behaviors you observe; • Greater autonomy: is pleased to be independent of parents when in a group of children, only needing to occasionally confirm their presence and availability - this need increases in new situations, with increased dependence arising when further adaptation is needed; • Your interactions with other children are still limited: your play takes place in parallel rather than in interaction with them; • From 20-24 months, and as you become more aware of yourself, physically and psychologically, you begin to widen your feelings about yourself and others - developing empathy (you are able to think). what others feel); Emotional Development • Great responsiveness to the emotional environment in which you live: even if you do not understand it, you realize the emotional states of those around you, especially parents; • You are learning to trust so you need to know that someone cares for her and meets her needs; • Develops a sense of ownership of your things and makes it difficult to share them; • Although normally well disposed, sometimes exhibits mood swings ("tantrums"); • Very sensitive to adult approval / disapproval;
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