Active discussions

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Behaviour/development

Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.

Original poster

What does your 22 to 24m old do/ like (no boasters pls!)

38 replies

boo64 · 08/05/2007 15:31

I don't have many friends with kids a very similar age to ds (22 months) as most of my mates' children are a bit older, and just wondered out of curiousity what yours do/ like doing etc. All the articles I've seen on development milestones all seem to say different things anyway so who knows.

No overly proud boasters please e.g. yours is already reading Shakespeare!! Just curious. And how much do you let them get away with?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
mumto3girls · 08/05/2007 15:37

my dd was 2 last week. She loves 'reading' her books, painting, play doh, watering the flowers ( in fact watering anything including herself with her oversized watering can), she is VERY talkative, not a baost just a fact and loves telling us all about her day, she sings nursery rhymes to her teddies in her cot at night.

Last night she was telling the story of the hungry caterpillar to her Pingu toy!

AnnieOleTing · 08/05/2007 15:44

DS was 2 three weeks ago. He loves to listen to stories, and often tells you the next line before you say it. He also finishes off the last line of a song for you.
Has just started stringing sentences together, 'here's comes the choo choo mama, here comes the choo choo' (very exciting!)
Has started to copy everything we say now.
Knows his colours mostly, and can sort of count to five or six, but I think it's just reciting, rather than actually knowing how many.
Knows all the animal sounds...

It's exhausting!

mcnoodle · 08/05/2007 15:45

Mine lines up his cars. Moves them around in his plastic shopping trolley. Lines them up again.

All day, every day. For weeks.

Oh he likes books, going to the park, playing chase, watering garden, playdough, teddies and chattering - but nothing (and I do mean nothing) comes close to those cars.

Helluva cute though - even if completely barmy

McDreamy · 08/05/2007 15:48

DS is 21 months, he has a few words but is not anywhere near about to deliver a sentence!

Doesn't stop talking but half the time I have no idea what he's talking about. Doesn't know any colours but can see an dot of an aircraft in the sky and can identify his dads car in a car park full of cars!!

He loves his books esp ones about cars, train, planes etc. Fav book - DH's what car mag

He knows his eyes and his teeth but no other part of his body. Is a fantastic footballer, can dribble the ball around the garden better than DH! Also much better at catching a ball than my 4 year old DD. I guess I just have a very physical little biy!!

AnnieOleTing · 08/05/2007 15:49

mcnoodle I know what you mean!
DS drives ALL his vehicles (cars, trains, huge big airplane) over the couch over and over, even when we're still sitting on it.

Yep, books, park, swings, slides, hide and seek, water, water...

don't we just love them!

Tigana · 08/05/2007 15:51

ds is 21 months, so a little younger than you were after, but he likes playing with sand and water (watering the bin/his feet/the dog), feeding his teddies his dinner, chattering, singing (currently ' ee eye eee eye oohh' and nonsense words to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star), jumping off things, squashing small balls I have made with playdough (??), going on slides, spotting animals and making their noises, choosing a book for bedtime and doing the actions we have made up to go with the story ( spotting hairy mclairy on each page etc), tucking teddies into bed...

Tigana · 08/05/2007 15:53

oh yes...can point out eyes, mouth, nooooose, hair etc on himself, other people, pictures, TV etc.
No where near saying a comprehensible sentence. Doesn't know colours. Knows the 'rhythm' of counting.

AnnieOleTing · 08/05/2007 15:53

Mcdreamy, same with the airplane in the sky, or TWO airplanes sometimes. When out for a walk, Mama, car coming, names all the colours of every car (yawn), taxi, bus, train, bike, etc etc.

Also knows the bits of his face and body. We had his hair cut the other week, and he still says, 'hair gone'... oops!

of your ds's football skills! Dh is desperately trying to get him good at it!!

Twiglett · 08/05/2007 15:55

do you mean 2 year old

time to stop counting in months methinks

mcnoodle · 08/05/2007 15:58

So Boo64, what does yours do?

i actually think that it is now that I can see the differences in development between my son and his chums. Prior about 18 months they were all one rampaging mass of toddling shrieking babyishness. But now their language is developing and their personalities seem to come through so clearly they are fascinating in their differences.

Ds is physically very confident but his best mate is leaps and bounds ahead verbally.

What's the point in boasting - mine's best

McDreamy · 08/05/2007 16:00

nope - he's not 2 until he gets to 24 months and then I go in years!

The funny thing is Annie DH doesn't even like football so don't know where it's come from!!!

lucykate · 08/05/2007 16:10

ds is 2 in 3 weeks, he likes play doh, playing with water and sand, lego, but mainly cars. he loves toy cars, and fire engines. he's lightning mcqueens biggest fan.

Original poster
boo64 · 08/05/2007 22:01

I guess some of the time mine is an angel and sometimes a little devil!

Angel behaviour - actually quite likes vegetables and picked them off a pizza recently to eat them first, chose a pear over a piece of choc cake!!

Devil behaviour - insists on standing on the sofa with a cheeky grin, no matter how many times I tell him to sit down

In terms of likes - he is quirky for sure. He only likes one TV programme and that's a quiz show ??? Very weird. Sure he'll get interested in Cbeebies stuff soon but he's not yet.
He complains loudly if we play the radio in the car and only likes the sort of music his dad plays and does his sign for the instrument his dad plays if it's anything else - we have a mini dictator on our hands and need to let him know he can't have his own way.

Speech wise - he can string words together - up to 3 at a time and has been able to for a while - but doesn't have a very big vocab for his age (22 months) - maybe 30 words if you include 5 or 6 animal noises. He has made up some signs for words and uses them quite a lot and seems to like or be able to best say words beginning with b! He knows plenty of b-words and only a few others??! Knows lots of parts of the body but not sure he knows colours. He does understand big and small.

Fave phrase is 'where's daddy' and 'geh daddy' (meaning get) -obsessed by daddy.

Another thing I'd like to hear about is how far your dc's will walk. Ds was an early walker BUT if he can get carried or pushed in a pram he will and he won't walk very far. Completely behavioural imho not physical but how much do yours all walk?

OP posts:
Original poster
boo64 · 08/05/2007 22:02

p.s. I agree - will use months til age 2 then half years after that and then I guess at some stage just years, otherwise will sound like Adrian Mole age 13 3/4!

OP posts:
KathyMCMLXXII · 08/05/2007 22:08

Hmmm.
Ours drinks a lot of milk, eats vegetables and can throw a mean tantrum. She is a little telly addict and demands a certain dvd or video and then the moment you put it on demands a different one. She is obsessed by my childless unsociable uncle for reasons no-one can figure out. She can dribble a ball and climb up a slide by herself. If you take your eye off her in the garden she will have half the compost out of my herb pots in a split second. Her version of Baa baa black sheep goes:

Baa baa black sheep
Any wool?
Yes sir yes sir.
One master
One little boy down lane.

Genidef · 08/05/2007 22:18

Please. I met a woman in the playground this weekend who told me her 3 year old was spelling 100 words and MSN-ing her friends when he got access to her computer.

DD is now 2.6 - around your daughter's age songs sounded quite a lot like Kathy described her daughters', also a telly addict, liked puzzles (the kind where you put the shape in the whole, the other kind she spent of the time saying: Mummy do it! and getting me to finish them - still does). Very energetic!!

Genidef · 08/05/2007 22:19

Sorry that sounded pretty incoherent. HOpe everyone got the idea.

misdee · 08/05/2007 22:19

mine likes to streak.

Genidef · 08/05/2007 22:21

fantastic.

KathyMCMLXXII · 08/05/2007 22:21

"Please. I met a woman in the playground this weekend who told me her 3 year old was spelling 100 words and MSN-ing her friends when he got access to her computer. "

Oh, well obviously mine does that too Genidef, I just assumed that was so normal that it wasn't worth mentioning

kamikayzed · 08/05/2007 22:21

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Original poster
boo64 · 08/05/2007 22:46

yes I know it's a cliched thing to say but it is so incredible how all these little boys love their cars and totally fit with gender stereotypes!

Mine has an obsession with a particular yellow van which is often parked near our house and waves madly at it when he sees it.

OP posts:
mollymawk · 08/05/2007 22:53

My ds2 is 22 mths and likes: running about like a nutter; laughing; playing with vehicles of all kinds. He can say quite a few words, although I can't always guess what they are. He has just started doing phrases rather than single words. First one was "more cake".
He likes being picked up but can walk a fair way, very slowly.
LOL at kamikayzed and the wheeled portraits!

hatrick · 08/05/2007 22:55

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

GillL · 09/05/2007 11:43

My dd is 2 years and 2 months and loves doing puzzles and 'reading' stories - she either remembers the basic story from when I have read it or she describes the pictures.