what is normal for a 2 year old boy? What to expect from him?

[gabido]

I am the father of a almost 2 year old boy (23 months). I feel a need to check couple of things I observe with other 2 year old boy parents (this is out first child) or 3 year old ones who used have 2 year old boy about a year ago or so. I am not sure what is typical what is not. Here we go:

- My son watches cartoons very engaged. He concentrates on TV/cartoon too much. DO all 2 year olds do that? How is yours TV watching habit? Very engaged as well?
- He is very energetic. He jumps, runs, mess things around and he is usually stubborn when asked not to do something.
- He is quite vocal. If you try to stop him doing something, he usually gets angry but it does not take long time to give up.
- He makes a lot of gibberish when showing something to me. He likes to share things and asks for something by pointing it and telling something gibberish. He knows some words but does not talk yet. Is this also typical? Some friends told me that their sons suddenly putting out sentences at about 2 1/2 years old.

These are things I can think of now. Please share your experiences and suggestions. If I find some more, I'll put it here later.

[ElliottCarasDad]

My daughter will be 2 in May and this sounds like her exactly.

The only word we found that will break her concentration off the tv is "cookie".

[xox.ilu.xox]

hahaha! cookie....

my daughter is two as well, but shes ahead of her developmental chart thingy. shes putting sentances together and we can understand most things she says. every kid is different. just judging by what you said, it seems quite normal. my daughter is always enthralled with cartoons lol. either food or milk will break her of her bond with cartoons. they keep her busy and the ones she watches are educational, so it doesnt bug me too bad. but when the tvs off she doesnt get mad.

[bssage]

Originally Posted by gabido

I am the father of a almost 2 year old boy (23 months). I feel a need to check couple of things I observe with other 2 year old boy parents (this is out first child) or 3 year old ones who used have 2 year old boy about a year ago or so. I am not sure what is typical what is not. Here we go:

wow

My head almost exploded.

To answer your question. Yes I think it's normal for a 2 yr old.

[Xero]

I have a two year old boy as well, although he's a little different since he's actually 29 months right now. But I think everything you described is totally normal. The only thing I would say is maybe the speach thing could be worked on, but its not something that I would say you should be concerned about. Every kid developes differently and I've seen a lot of kids not say a single thing until they're 2-2 1/2 and then bam they say full sentences. My son said a lot of 2-3 word phrases at that age, and he was always very understandable for the most part. He did still however use babbling when he didn't know how to address something. Totally normal, and super cute. At this point he pretty much has conversations with us haha. If anything, I would just talk to him as much as possible even if you don't think he understands everything you say, and always ask him questions and point at things and name them. Either way, he's still going to develop at his own pace.

Most kids are very attentive to the TV, and I don't see any problem with that. As a matter of fact, I'm jealous!! My son didn't start paying attention to the TV for more than five minutes until he was more like 26 months old. Now he will watch about half a movie, maybe a whole one if he's tired. I wish at that age that he would have stared at the TV a little longer! lol All that other stuff sounds perfectly normal too, my son still runs around like a nut and screams at me when I tell him no haha.

[gabido]

I think "seem to be enthralled by cartoons" is a good description for my 2 yr old. When he is watching a cartoon, he doesn't serm to pay much sttention to surrounding. It is not that difficult to stop him. But I am not sure what exactly to do about his attachement to cartoons. Should I try to detach them or just leave him alone while he is enjoying it. Which one is good for him?my concern is what if TV delays his speech. Could that happen?

[Jeremy+3]

Our children that young don't watch tv, so I can't answer that one, the others seem normal though.

[16th ave.]

sounds normal to me. i'd keep an eye on how much time he acutally spends watching tv and limit it to only an hour or two a day with some off breaks in there somewhere and get him busy with other things. the speech depends on how much you can understand him. its something you might want to bring up at his next well child check up.

[gabido]

Originally Posted by 16th ave.

sounds normal to me. i'd keep an eye on how much time he acutally spends watching tv and limit it to only an hour or two a day with some off breaks in there somewhere and get him busy with other things. the speech depends on how much you can understand him. its something you might want to bring up at his next well child check up.

when it comes to speech, he seems to be okay compared to other children at his age around us (there are a few of them). Pretty much they all are bable a lot. But when you look at internet, you see that they should be able to say so many words and put them together etc. BTW, what is exactly counted as a word? If he calls vacuum cleaner as "vu vu", is it a word, or two or not at all?

[xox.ilu.xox]

i think vu vu would be considered a word..lol. I limit hayleigh's cartoons to an hour or so a day, she has her favorite show she watches after nap time, and really i watch my fav shows during the day and she plays...LOTS....i dont think you have anything to worry about