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2 years old

25 to 26 months

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Your 25- and 26-month-old: Milestones and development
Learn why your 2-year-old is asking so many questions, whether she's a rightie or a leftie, why she's biting, and how to help her deal with her fear of the doctor.
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Your 25-month-old: Scared of the doctor
Teaching your 2-year-old that their doctor isn't someone to fear.
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Your 26-month-old: Language red flags
See red flags that warn of a language delay in toddlers.
boy sitting in the stroller and biting his mother's index finger
Your 26-month-old: Biting strategies
Preschoolers bite when they're mad or feel threatened.
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Your 25-month-old: Brain boosters
Your preschooler's brain is a beehive of activity as it forms countless new neural connections.
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Your 26-month-old: Developmental milestones
How can you tell if your child is on track developmentally?
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Your 26-month-old: Leftie or rightie?
Is your child is a leftie or a rightie?
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Your 25-month-old: Asking questions
Your little one's a budding conversationalist now.
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Your 25-month-old: Potty time
Is it time to potty? Most 2-year-olds can't stay dry all day and all night.

27 to 28 months

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Your 27- and 28-month-old: Milestones and development
Help your 2-year-old develop his motor skills, develop a second language, foster friendships, and grow grammar skills. Learn why it's useful to re-read favorite books.
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Your 27-month-old: Parallel play
It's normal at this age for kids to do play separately even when they're together.
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Your 28-month-old: Gifted kids
Can you know at the age of 2 if your child is gifted?
girl sitting on the floor and playing with lego blocks
Your 28-month-old: Concentration
Your child can play with small objects easily and stack (not just knock over) towers of blocks.
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Your 27-month-old: Becoming bilingual
Is now a good time to expose your child to other languages?
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Your 28-month-old: Making friends
First friendships are very real to your child.
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Your 27-month-old: Mastering motor skills
Doing actions repeatedly helps your child perfect her motor skills.
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Your 28-month-old: Understanding grammar
A preschooler learns many new words and their meanings every single day.
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Your 27-month-old: Read it again
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree again?! Oh yes. Reading the same book over and over provides a measure of comfort.

29 to 30 months

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Your 29- and 30-month-old: Milestones and development
Learn about your 2-year-old's love of repetition, memory skills, and eye for details. Find out why she might be whining or regressing and how her language skills are growing.
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Your 29-month-old: Learning to share
Preschoolers can be fiercely protective of their possessions.
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Your 30-month-old: Creating art
Your little scribbler may soon start to draw recognizable shapes such as primitive stick people.
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Your 29-month-old: Repetition is key
Your little one may want to eat the same things andwear the same clothes day after day.
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Your 30-month-old: Why regression happens
Regression of skills and how it relates to your 2-year-old.
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Your 29-month-old: Beating the whines
How to handle your whiny 2-year-old.
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Your 29-month-old: A game of memory
What can a 2-year-old remember? More and more every day!
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Your 30-month-old: An eye for details
Your preschooler has an incredible eye and ear for details.
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Your 30-month-old: Learning language
Some of the things preschoolers say are quite charming and unintentionally funny.

31 to 32 months

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Your 31- and 32-month-old: Milestones and development
Signs your 2-year-old might be stressed and why she loves pretend play, rhyming, and saying "No!" Learn some strategies for maintaining that afternoon nap.
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Your 31-month-old: The power of "no"
Find out why your child's favorite word is "no."
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Your 32-month-old: It's rhyme time
Rhymes are a wonderful way to enhance your child's language development.
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Your 31-month-old: Preschooler stress
Did you know that very young children can get stressed out too?
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Your 32-month-old: Nap-time strategies
An afternoon nap helps rambunctious preschoolers recharge and stay pleasant till bedtime.
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Your 31-month-old: Sense of time
He can't read a watch yet, but your preschooler does have a rudimentary sense of time.
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Your 32-month-old: Let's pretend
Pretend play is becoming one of your child's favorite things.
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Your 31-month-old: Let's get physical
Physical games can help your 2-year-old burn energy.
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Your 32-month-old: Intro to manners
Your child is definitely old enough to learn — and practice — some of the social graces.

33 to 34 months

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Your 33- and 34-month-old: Milestones and development
Learn how to help a fearful 2-year old and find out what language milestones she should be reaching, what teeth she'll be getting, and why she's so bossy.
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Your 33-month-old: Taming fears
A lively imagination often gives temporary birth to monsters.
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Your 34-month-old: Potty mouth
You're so proud of your angel's growing vocabulary — until words like "poopie head" and worse creep in.
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Your 34-month-old: Preschooler humor
Not only is your tyke saying and doing funnier things every day, but she responds to humor in a big way, too.
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Your 33-month-old: Teething's last gasp
Your child's last baby teeth, four "second molars," usually appear between 20 and 33 months.
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Your 34-month-old: Beating bossiness
Bossiness can be a bid for attention. Learn strategies on how to be patient with your 2-year-old and their demands.
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Your 33-month-old: Language milestones
Look for reassuring signs that your child's language skills are on track by watching his behavior as well as listening to his words.
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Your 33-month-old: Understanding numbers
The best way to set your child up for later math skills is not to coach him in counting and adding but to weave numerical references into his day.
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Your 34-month-old: Tracking growth
How can you tell if your child is the proper weight?

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