This is how your child develops in the 22nd to 24th month

Running and motor skills: Little movement artists need a lot of sleep

With the great urge to move and the many new ways to play, your child’s sleeping habits will also change. Your child is now ready to sleep through the night and is no longer dependent on eating and drinking at night. In addition, by this time it is already sleeping alone in a bed. However, that does not mean that your child likes to go to bed voluntarily. On the contrary: Many toddlers are extremely inventive when it comes to not having to sleep. Here, however, you should make sure that your child finds a rhythm and that you stick to it. Because restful sleep is extremely important for the little bullies.

Speaking and Understanding: Huge increase in vocabulary

After your child has a vocabulary of around 50 words at around one and a half years old, a veritable language explosion will take place over the next few months. New words are now learned much faster, until your child has mastered around 200 words towards the end of the second year of life.

Nutrition: Discover new flavors

From birth, your child can distinguish between tastes such as sour, bitter and sweet, and of course it likes sweet things best – after all, it is also familiar with this taste from amniotic fluid and breast milk. Sour and bitter, on the other hand, are tastes that make your child grimace. But over time, these taste preferences change and become more diverse. The changes in the digestive system and the metabolism of the child are responsible for this. During the second year of life, most children also like salty foods and they like slightly sour fruit juice.

However, this development varies from child to child: one child wants to try everything you offer, other children refuse to try anything new. No wonder, since children have a much finer sense of taste than adults and react much more sensitively to spicy foods than mum or dad. Nevertheless, it is advisable to support the child’s variety of tastes with a large selection of different foods and dishes. You will see: Your sweetheart will hardly be able to resist a varied offer on the menu.

It is also particularly important for your child to always drink enough liquid. Some children do not always tell you when they are thirsty, hardly ever feel thirsty or completely forget to drink while playing. It is therefore very important that you offer enough to drink regularly and that your child’s fluid requirements are always covered.

Mental Skills and Play: Improving fine motor skills

At 22 months, your child likes to grab pen and paper and develop their creativity in pictures. However, it is not important to him to depict something familiar or that one can recognize what has been depicted. It’s all about living out the imagination and experiencing painting as a creative experience. At the same time, fine motor skills are trained and your child will find it easier and easier to control and refine their movements.