Months 22-24
Mental Development
- Start to understand more complicated requests
- Understand major differences, but not minor differences, in size of objects
- Frequently ask “what’s that?”
- Can remember past events and anticipate future happenings
- Name pictures of common objects
- Listen to conversations directed to them
- Use a combination of words
- Describe the characteristics of some items
- Engage in some simple pretend play
- Understand as many as 300 words and simple conversations
- Understand and use the word “no” emphatically
Visual Development
- Be able to match familiar shapes
- Imitate drawing straight line or circle by scribbling with crayon or pencil
- Have a visual acuity level of approximately 20/60
- Be able to name familiar miniature toys at a distance of 3 metres
Growth
22 Months
- Weigh about 11.1 kg if she’s a girl or about 11.8 kg if he’s a boy
- Be about 84.6 cm tall if she’s a girl or about 86 cm tall if he’s a boy
23 Months
- Weigh about 11.3 kg if she’s a girl or about 12.0 kg if he’s a boy
- Be about 85.5 cm tall if she’s a girl or about 86.9 cm tall if he’s a boy
24 Months
- Weigh about 11.5 kg if she’s a girl or about 12.2 kg if he’s a boy
- Be about 85.7 cm tall if she’s a girl or about 87.1 cm tall if he’s a boy
Motor Development
- Be able to combine two or three simple body movements without significant practice
- Build a tower of four blocks
- Put lids on containers and take them off
- Put pegs into holes
- Turn switches on and off
- Remove clothing and shoes, but are not able to dress themselves well
- Manoeuvre around objects skillfully and easily
- Walk well, going heel to toe like grown-ups
- Throw a small ball
- Climb up and down the stairs alone, with both feet to a step
Social and Emotional Development
- Be more resistant to going to bed
- Like to do things for themselves
- Chatter to themselves while daydreaming as a way to process their thoughts
- Explores people through imitating what they do
- Be completely unaware of the chaos and mess they cause by attempting to imitate others
- Will be possessive of their belongings and claim them as “mine”
- Enjoys fetching and delivering things
- Engage in more pretend play
- Demand a lot of their caregiver’s attention
