There are will be remarkable development in your baby in the second year too. Let us take a look at the developmental milestones that your baby is expected to achieve during the second year.
The second year is also characterised by important developmental milestones which babies are expected to achieve. Below mentioned are some of the important milestones that babies achieve during the second year of their growth and development.
Learning to Classify
Your child is now going to learn to classify objects in groups. She may not be able to make complex, fine differentiations, often using the same word to describe objects sharing one or more common feature. For instance, she may use the word "ball" to describe balls, apples and stones as they are all round.
The child's ability to articulate is much less than her comprehension. Thus, while she may call two different objects by the same name, she will know the difference between them. For instance, she may use the word "guck" to identify a duck and a truck. However, she will be able to pick out a truck on demand when shown pictures of both objects.
On the other hand, children can narrow the scope of a concept. Your child may think that the word "animal" only includes those that she sees on a daily basis like a cat or a dog. She may not understand that birds and fish are a part of this category.
Expanding Vocabulary
Your child will first learn those words that are most relevant in order to control and relate to her environment, e.g. names of people, toys, food, and words like no, up, more, out, and open. The rate at which she should learn new words should be between one and three words a month. By the time she is two, her vocabulary should extend to about 200 words.
Your Baby's First Sentence
This much-awaited milestone will occur sometime just before your baby's second birthday. While grammar and tenses may be beyond her, the sentences will follow certain logic, establishing the fact that she understands the relationship between objects. Her sentences will be descriptive ("me sit"), possessive ("my doggy"), repetitive ("more milk"), etc.
Learning to Walk
This is a very important and most awaited milestone that babies achieve during the second year. Although, some children may learn to walk by 9 months of age, the average age for babies to learn walking is 14 months. Some babies may even take longer, which is about 17 months. This is the year when your toddler will master her walking skills. As the months pass, by the mid of the second year, your toddler will not only walk confidently but also learn to run around and to kick a ball.
Learning to Climb
This is the time when you need to be extra careful and re-check that your house is properly childproofed. You need to be very alert as your child will start climbing stairs, furniture and also will climb out of her crib. You need to watch her carefully.
How to Aid Child’s Developing during the Second Year?
Parents can do a plenty of things to enhance the development of the child during the second year. During this time you can allow your child to scribble by giving her a scribbling pad and crayons. In this way you can aid the control that she is developing over the small muscles in her fingers and hands. You must also encourage self-feeding and teach her to eat with spoon. Such activities will aid the development of her fine motor-skills. Provide her with toys like shape sorters, board books, toy phone etc; that can aid her development. Encourage her to mingle with children of her age and make friends.
This year will be full of adventure, so make sure that you are fully prepared for the fun. Provide your child a safe environment to grow. All children grow at their own pace so do not worry if your child is taking her own time. If you are concerned, you must surely consult your child’s paediatrician.
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Second year is an important milestone for a baby, he is able to learn many new things. this article is great to know what the baby is able to learn in his second year.
Kids start learning from a very young age even babies learn from their surroundings so learning is an everyday process. After 2 years kids learn very fast.
