List of Baby Needs for the First Year
Important Milestones: Your Child By Two Years
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child's development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of 2 years by completing a checklist with CDC's free Milestone Tracker mobile app, for iOSexternal icon and Androidexternal icon devices, or by printing the checklist pdf icon [303 KB, 2 Pages, Print Only] below. Take the checklist with you and talk with your child's doctor at every visit about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most children do by this age:
Social and Emotional
- Copies others, especially adults and older children
- Gets excited when with other children
- Shows more and more independence
- Shows defiant behavior (doing what he has been told not to)
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- Plays mainly beside other children, but is beginning to include other children, such as in chase games
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Language/Communication
- Points to things or pictures when they are named
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- Knows names of familiar people and body parts
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- Says sentences with 2 to 4 words
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- Follows simple instructions
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- Repeats words overheard in conversation
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- Points to things in a book
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
- Finds things even when hidden under two or three covers
- Begins to sort shapes and colors
- Completes sentences and rhymes in familiar books
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- Plays simple make-believe games
- Builds towers of 4 or more blocks
- Might use one hand more than the other
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- Follows two-step instructions such as "Pick up your shoes and put them in the closet."
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- Names items in a picture book such as a cat, bird, or dog
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Movement/Physical Development
- Stands on tiptoe
- Kicks a ball
- Begins to run
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- Climbs onto and down from furniture without help
- Walks up and down stairs holding on
- Throws ball overhand
- Makes or copies straight lines and circles
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- Doesn't use 2-word phrases (for example, "drink milk")
- Doesn't know what to do with common things, like a brush, phone, fork, spoon
- Doesn't copy actions and words
- Doesn't follow simple instructions
- Doesn't walk steadily
- Loses skills she once had
Tell your child's doctor or nurse if you notice any of these signs of possible developmental delay for this age and ask for a developmental screening. Talk with someone in your community who is familiar with services for young children in your area, such as your state's public early intervention program. For more information, visit our "If You're Concerned" web page or call 1-800-CDC-INFO.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children be screened for general development using standardized, validated tools at 9, 18, and 30 months and for autism at 18 and 24 months or whenever a parent or provider has a concern. Ask your child's doctor about your child's developmental screening.
"Learn the Signs. Act Early." materials are not a substitute for standardized, validated developmental screening tools [918 KB, 115 Pages, Print Only]external icon.
Adapted from CARING FOR YOUR BABY AND YOUNG CHILD: BIRTH TO AGE 5, Fifth Edition, edited by Steven Shelov and Tanya Remer Altmann © 1991, 1993, 1998, 2004, 2009 by the American Academy of Pediatrics and BRIGHT FUTURES: GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH SUPERVISION OF INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS, Third Edition, edited by Joseph Hagan, Jr., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, 2008, Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.
List of Baby Needs for the First Year
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/milestones-2yr.html
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