What are the developmental indicators for a two and a half year old baby?

In life, a newborn baby is the focus of the whole family's attention. In order to understand the baby's development more intuitively, we have an indicator for the baby's development. When the baby is two and a half years old, he also has such developmental indicators. For the sake of our children's health, we need to understand the relevant knowledge. So what are the developmental indicators for babies aged two and a half years? Let's take a look at how authoritative experts answer this question based on years of clinical experience.

1. Physical Development

1. The weight of a baby boy is 13.87 kg and that of a baby girl is 13.41 kg.

2. The height of a baby boy is 94.44 cm, and that of a baby girl is 92.93 cm.

3. The head circumference of a baby boy is 49.31 cm, and that of a baby girl is 48.25 cm.

4. The chest circumference of a baby boy is 50.80 cm, and that of a baby girl is 49.67 cm.

5. 20 teeth have erupted.

2. Neuropsychiatric Development

1. The athletic ability is stable, the movements are coordinated, and the posture is correct. Can jump down from one step, try to hop 1-2 steps on one foot, and can jump long distance. Can walk on a balance beam without help. Can hold a pencil but not make a fist; can copy and draw vertical and horizontal lines. Can throw a large ball about one meter high; can stack eight square logs.

2. The mind begins to know colors and can repeat two numbers. Knows big and small; can name the picture and point out the four scenes in the picture, but cannot explain them. The vocabulary increases rapidly, the modern noun "I" appears, the child can use language to communicate with others, knows his full name, and likes to ask questions such as "What is this?" Able to go to the toilet by himself, and learn to pull down elastic pants to sit on the potty.

3. Personality: Each child’s different personality is more obvious. At this time, the child's emotions are very unstable, easily excited, and changeable, and are often affected by the external environment and people around him.

3. Parenting Tips

1. To prevent children from suffering from iron deficiency anemia, they should eat pig blood, liver and offal at least 1-2 times a week. In addition, soybeans, black beans, black sesame seeds, red dates, black fungus, dark-colored vegetables and fruits all contain iron and can be included in the diet. Iron supplements should only be taken under the guidance of a doctor when anemia is severe.

2. Cultivating habits: Now is the time to start teaching children to follow rules. First, parents should set a good example themselves. Second, the specified rules should be reasonable, clear, and appropriate for the child's age, allowing children to make occasional exceptions and repeat themselves.

3. Games and education: Children of this age like to play “house” and like to obey the instructions of older children, such as helping to get toys, helping to feed dolls, helping to “buy groceries”... and so on. Children learn to live in peace with others through playing and gain some experience in interpersonal relationships. Parents can try their best to provide him with conditions for playing, let him interact more with other children, and enable him to leave his parents and guardians for a short period of time and play games with other children.

Cultivating imagination and creativity in games and life can make children's lives colorful, improve their language and social skills, and cultivate their problem-solving abilities. To this end, parents can let their children read picture books and comic books as much as possible, browse the mountains and scenery of the motherland, and watch some TV programs selectively to accumulate knowledge and develop imagination. At the same time, we should encourage children's innocent imagination and never interfere or ridicule them.

After understanding the above content, we should have a general understanding of what the developmental indicators of a baby at the age of two and a half years are. We all know that good knowledge is helpful in dealing with our baby's illness. Although we cannot prevent diseases from occurring, we can effectively prevent the occurrence of some diseases in life. For this part of baby care, we must adopt a more scientific attitude so that we can protect our baby's health.