Developmentally, what are children at age two suppose to be doing?

lol... from the title i thought you meant a 2 year old had a child

i was like... hmm, and i thought teen pregnancy was bad... :D

Depends, I have a 2 year old cousin that can talk, count to 30 and do the abc's

Originally posted by JYC
lol... from the title i thought you meant a 2 year old had a child

i was like... hmm, and i thought teen pregnancy was bad... :D


Glad I'm not alone.

At age 2, our daughter could play Jingle Bells on a keyboard (one finger), count to 20 and read about 500 words off of flash cards.

Vito

If you ask this question two years ago, I can answer you. :D

I think the psychology abecedarium all mention this.

I have a 2-year old.

He talks (lots! - and it's annoying!) walks, runs, jumps, sleeps, eats, throws things, loves to play with blocks, loves reading, watches television occasionally, brushes his teeth (albeit not that well, I have to go over them after he finishes doing it himself), acts like a meanie (hits, kicks, throws tantrums), can get up and down stairs extremely easy and is very quick at it, never takes naps because he loves to torture me, then when he does take a nap it's really late in the evening (like now, 5:45PM) and then ends up staying up all night to torture me some more. I'm trying to teach him little bits of the alphabet too. He knows, and can point out and say: A, B, E, D, Y, O, and U. We're trying :D He loves going outside and playing, playing with balls and cars and blocks as I already said, listening to music (he dances too hehe).

He knows his body parts and can point to them and say most of them, loves looking at picture books and pointing out and saying things he knows, makes short sentences and understands many things I ask (tell) him to do, and lots of other things.

Oh yeah... he loves undressing himself :rolleyes: He can put his pants and socks on, but not his shirt most of the time or his shoes (shoes are laced and too difficult).

at least FTP a website

Every child is different, some will lack a little, some will advance a little. But if your child is really advancing, great! If your child is really lacking, it may be normal. But I'm not so sure what to expect at age 2 (I honestly don't remember what I could do at that age, lol).

One of my friends, she has a daughter. She was two (though she just turned three), and was like... wow. She could speak to you quite fluenty for her age (better than a lot of kindergarteners I've come across). She can asked you questions. And when talking to you and such, she has a pretty big vocabulary for her age. She count pretty high (never really bothered to see how high; I mean, she isn't my daughter, lol). She knows a decent level of Spanish as well because her babysitter speaks Spanish around her. Overall, very amazing for a 2 year old.

Now on the other hand... I have a cousin. Just recently turned 4. I don't think he can even count to 10. I don't think he knows all the ABCs yet. He can't speak well. And he is already 4 and is this way; obviously he was worse when he was 2.

Overall... the two people I know well that are about that age, are about the exact opposite of each other.

PUBH, about your cousin:

Boys generally develop much slower than girls when it comes to language skills. Boys tend to focus more on physical abilities than speech.

At 4, though, I would think he should be able to do most of the things you have mentioned that he is incapable of.

True.

I mean, he turned 4 in October, and is still on a bottle. They took it away for awhile, but somehow it came back. Probably didn't help his mother has some serious mental problems (not proven medically yet :rolleyes: ), and his dad was (and is) on drugs; probably hasn't helped him (and his mom and dad are in their late 30's, maybe early 40's; and the older you are, the more likely the possibility for genetic "defects" too).

But honestly... no ABCs (I'm sure he must know like A through D or so, lol) or basic counting at over age 4? That's gotta be pretty bad.

I'll give him credit though, his vocabulary does have some other words which few children his age know... I've never seen a young three old tell me "F--- you!" (guess he learns a thing or two from his older brother and sister who are like 14 and 16 respectively).

My cousin's son just turned 3, and we was able to go as far as G in his ABCs, and he got stuck at 11 when counting.

He is also good at repeating you and he knows what words are bad. Cause when me and his dad are playing Unreal, hes always telling us that our people are saying bad words... Its actually kinda funny too, but he really caught us offguard when he repeated a taunt ("Owned your a$$!") and said it pretty loud and I heard him in the other room.

Hmm Timmy just turned 3 so let's see

could recite the alphabet and he recognized all the capital and most of the lower case letters on site, and could spell some common words he sees a lot (his name, my name, Lowes(don't ask), Wal-Mart, and some more), counted to about 22, knows just about any color or shape you throw at him. No more pacifier, he quit the bottle long ago, potty training was complete early in the 2's but he still wears pull ups to sleep but rarely has an accident in them (he never poops while asleep but #1 is somewhat common). He puts his own DVD's into his dvd player and hits play and turns on the TV. He changes games on his gamecube and turns it on and starts up the game and plays Mario Sunshine and Pacman world more than I'd like (he also knows how to turn off the sound in the settings on the gamecube so I can't hear it playing...). He plays Thomas and other games on the computer too, and types his name in when it starts and asks for his name. Feeds himself and can dress himself mostly, but is really lazy about it and usually quits after his underwear and socks whining he can't do it. Uhm, can't think of much else.

Sorry, it's been 13 years since my son was two, so I can't help much.

BTW, when I first read the title of this topic, I thought it said "chicken at age two", lol.

You spend the first couple years teaching them to walk and talk and then the next 10 years telling them to shut up and sit down. :D

Originally posted by Hiccups
You spend the first couple years teaching them to walk and talk and then the next 10 years telling them to shut up and sit down. :D

That is so true, lol.

My Son's only 13 month's old, but he can now walk, and talk ( a little). He also likes to take the toy tools we bought him, and beat me with them whilst I'm asleep :laugh:

The strangest thing is that at 11 month's he first came out with "what's that", we thought it was a "fluke" but he constantly points at everything and shouts "what's that" about 743 times :laugh:

Originally posted by Hiccups
You spend the first couple years teaching them to walk and talk and then the next 10 years telling them to shut up and sit down. :D
Yes and for the first two or three years we talk "baby talk" to them .... ta, potty, yum yum, bot bot etc then we spend the next 15 years trying to teach them how to talk properly .. why we can use proper words from the start is beyond me..

I make a point of NOT talking "baby talk" to my two year old daughter... she can understand everything I say, in fact she is often way ahead of me ..she doesn't have the ability to repeat everything yet, but she definately understands. I only have to cup my fist and raise it to my mouth .. as though I was drinking from a can, and she runs to the fridge and returns with a cold beer, .. this is fine at 8 or 9 pm however its a bit awkward at 10 Am.

As for energy ... My Daughter wakes around 10Am ... never ever sleeps during the day, unless I drive to the supermarket late afternoon, she falls asleep before we get there which usually means I have to go back home without doing the shopping, then when she wakes she demands to go because she missed out in the first place, It is impossible to get her to bed before 10.30 or 11 PM of a night. she does sleep straight through till 10am as I meantioned unless of course some ignorant person rings before that..

Doc

Originally posted by TheDoctor

As for energy ... My Daughter wakes around 10Am
Sounds like a dream world :bawling: My girls all woke at first light, but they slept during the day and were asleep by 7.30 at night. I never used baby talk with them so they were rambling on with good speech early. They were all "potty trained" well and truly by the age of two (day and night), extremely active and adventurous.

I have two nearly two year old grandudes, a boy and a girl. The girl is very active and talks well and the boy is less active, plods along when he feels the urge, doesn't say much (typical bloke :P) But as said above, all kids have different levels of achievement, you can get an "average" estimation on some online Child Development sites :)

Multivariable Calculus -- but only if hes a slow learner.

he or she*

Mine fetched, chewed a lot, slept about 18 hours a day, played with toys for the other 6 hours and ate like a horse. Oh you meant humans. :) Dogs are our only kids and they react a little differnt thant kids I guess. :)

I agree on the "baby talk" ban, I NEVER talked to my kid in baby talk, and always talked in regular tones using regular words, I got really pissed at his grandmother for teaching him some words that were nonsensical (one example that really burned my butt was when he started calling watches "titos" wtf is the reason for that just call it a damn watch sheesh). It's hard enough to get kids to talk right without stacking the deck by teaching them stupid words that they'll have to unlearn later anyway. If you never teach it you won't have to unlearn the bad habit later.

One word: Annoy!

Originally posted by ArcticKid
One word: Annoy!

but most of them are sooo cute :stickout:

Originally posted by JYC
but most of them are sooo cute :stickout:

God made them cute so you won't kill them. :D

They're cute when they're sleeping.

Originally posted by JYC
lol... from the title i thought you meant a 2 year old had a childMe too.. heh

scream, ask for money, cry all night, walk and run around, stick every possible object to their mouth, torture your nerves and house pets, destroy electronic equipment, pee and poo in their pants, make a 100 db noise, stick variable objects to their mouth and nose, especially color crayons and peas and everything that is poisonous. keep you wake all night.

sorry, i meant 110 db noise. :D