What should a two-year-old baby learn?

As babies grow up, they generally need to be taught different things at different stages. Careful parents find that as children grow older, playing can no longer satisfy their interests at different stages. At this time, babies often like to explore new things. In fact, parents can guide their children to learn new things at this time. So what should a two-year-old baby learn?

What should a two-year-old learn?

1. The most basic learning: training on the developmental characteristics of this age group

What kind of training in gross motor skills, fine motor skills, language skills, cognitive skills, and discrimination abilities that children around 2 years old need depends on the characteristics of each baby. Generally speaking, when a baby shows great interest in something or something, it means that he is in the sensitive period of this matter. Parents should seize the opportunity to train him in this aspect, which will help improve the baby's intellectual development.

2. The most important thing to learn: preparation before entering kindergarten

Most two-year-old children are ready to go to kindergarten. At this time, the most important thing to learn is life skills: eating, dressing, defecation, etc. For children who are preparing to go to kindergarten next year, it is best to train them in advance. In the United States, many classes will not accept 3-year-old children if they have not completed potty training. It is more important for children to learn to take care of themselves as early as possible than to learn any other skills.

In addition, you should give your children more social education, especially for shy children, take them out more often to interact with people. Let him take the initiative to make friends. Lay a solid foundation for his group life in kindergarten.

3. The most age-appropriate learning method: reciting

Two-year-old children have very good mechanical memory for rhythmic materials such as Tang poetry. It can be said that this is the most obvious feature of this age group. When they are younger, they cannot speak, and this ability will gradually weaken as they grow older.

At this time, you can teach your children to recite some poems. It is not required that they can understand them, as long as they can speak them. Of course, these should be based on the child’s own interests. If the child doesn’t like it, don’t force it. But most children like to play this "game". On the one hand, they like something catchy, and on the other hand, they will discover the fun of language by themselves. Moreover, this teaching and learning process is a great time for parent-child bonding.

The child’s father is very funny. He said that since Ruichen has an excellent memory, he would teach him to memorize the multiplication table and physics formulas. I said, what's the point of memorizing it now when I don't understand it. His answer seemed to make sense: if you remember it now, it will be much easier to use it in the future.

4. It’s never too early to learn: a foreign language

Early childhood is the best age for oral language development. By the age of 4, children can master all the sounds of their mother tongue. After the age of 5, once the mother tongue habits are formed, there will be language interference when learning a foreign language, which will be much more difficult. Therefore, learning a foreign language should be familiar to you from an early age. For a two-year-old child, you can show him some English cartoons, let him listen to English songs, and teach him some simple English words and dialogues. In the usual games, you can also play some English games, such as playing English word cards, playing English letter puzzles together and so on. When a 2-year-old child learns a foreign language, the main purpose is to develop his sense of language, and there is no need to worry about interfering with his mother tongue.

5. You can start learning at any time: swimming

Swimming is suitable for all ages. You can tell by looking at the classes offered by various swimming training institutions. There are swimming classes for babies aged 0-2 years old, swimming classes for toddlers, classes for schoolchildren, advanced classes, athlete training, etc. No matter how much you have missed before, it will never be too late to make up for it later. Therefore, when the mother wants to "let the child learn to swim" or the child "wants to learn to swim himself", it is the appropriate age to start swimming. A 2-year-old child can already learn to swim very well.

6. You can start preparing for the study: drawing

Children of this age begin to recognize colors, hold pens more skillfully, and show great enthusiasm for notebooks and pens. Give your baby a notebook and let him doodle freely. Don't teach him what shape he can draw, just let him get started with writing and drawing. Moreover, painting can open up a colorful world for children.

7. The most heartwarming and enjoyable way to learn: reading storybooks

Two-year-old babies are no longer satisfied with simple picture books. They start to read books with storylines, and sometimes they will retell simple stories. Now is the time to replace the books at home. Buy some simple storybooks for your baby, preferably ones with a large picture on one page and one or two sentences. There should not be too many words and the story should not be too long.