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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
kmcnair96
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FTM, 16m old. normal toddler behavior?
kmcnair96
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My daughter just turned 16m old on the 25th. She has said the words “ball, wow, woah, has tried to say meow for cat, and I think has tried to say dog” but can’t completely confirm. When I tell her to throw something in the trash she does, she puts her arms up when she wants to be picked up, if I say where’s the ball, bottle of bubbles, or the dog.. she looks towards them and sometimes gets them. She plays peekaboo, she tries brushing her hair with a brush, she finds me if I go and hide and then runs and laughs when chased, if I say come here or let’s go.. she listens. She likes to bounce her ball and kick it , if I cry she comes and bends down to look at me, she mimicks my burps “tmi lol” , grunts if I lift something heavy and my coughs. And now she’ll say rawwr. If I call her name she looks or comes to me but if she’s in the tv or occupied ..she ignores me or answers delayed. She’s becoming more interested in her stuffed baby dolls and will now pick them up to give a kiss and today I caught her taking out and trying to put back in her baby’s pacifier. She has said the word mama and dada of course but doesn’t call us them. But if my mom “grandma” asks her “where’s mama” she’ll look at me or find me. So she knows that’s me. She loves books and can turn the pages and will and can find a particular book if I ask her too. She will point to things in the book with her index finger “just randomly, I’m not asking her to find anything” and if I say touch something , she’ll rub it. I ask her to do that with her sensory books.
She doesn’t point to things for me to get her but she does index point to things in books she’s looking at. And she has started to hand point to things if I ask her “what she wants?” And I heard that hand pointing comes before index pointing. I can admit that I was never a huge pointer and it’s probably my fault . But once I found out how important it was , I’ve been pointing a lot around her. I now know that pointing is a taught thing so it’s my fault. So the pointing was one of my concerns. The others would be : she has done the wave gesture and has said bye bye but sometimes does it when we asks and sometimes does it randomly. If we ask her to say or do bye bye , most of the time she thinks we’re playing and will smile and turn her head. It’s like she thinks it’s a game haha. It’s something about the gesture bye bye. She also likes to tip her toy tables over sometimes and will sometimes play with the wheels but it isn’t all the time and she doesn’t do it long. She does play with the tables normally too but does like to flip them. She also does this thing with hands. She’ll put the back of her hand on her lips and just press them together. She does it pretty often throughout the day. Normally when she isn’t occupied. At her 15m check up, I’m nuts lol and was concerned about autism but her doctor told me that she didn’t see any concerns. She said that pointing isn’t a big deal and that some never point. Especially since she’s the only child, doesn’t go around other toddlers, and I wait on on her hand and foot .. to where she doesn’t even have to ask me for anything. She also said the back of the hand to lip thing is probably a comfort thing and that she probably just likes the feeling of her lips on the back of her hand.
I basically want to know other mama’s opinions and if your toddlers have done similar things with the hands and if they pointed late and are fine now. Although, my pediatrician isn’t concerned and said she’s perfect and that her motor skills are also advanced. I just wanted to hear other mama’s thoughts and experiences:)
She doesn’t point to things for me to get her but she does index point to things in books she’s looking at. And she has started to hand point to things if I ask her “what she wants?” And I heard that hand pointing comes before index pointing. I can admit that I was never a huge pointer and it’s probably my fault . But once I found out how important it was , I’ve been pointing a lot around her. I now know that pointing is a taught thing so it’s my fault. So the pointing was one of my concerns. The others would be : she has done the wave gesture and has said bye bye but sometimes does it when we asks and sometimes does it randomly. If we ask her to say or do bye bye , most of the time she thinks we’re playing and will smile and turn her head. It’s like she thinks it’s a game haha. It’s something about the gesture bye bye. She also likes to tip her toy tables over sometimes and will sometimes play with the wheels but it isn’t all the time and she doesn’t do it long. She does play with the tables normally too but does like to flip them. She also does this thing with hands. She’ll put the back of her hand on her lips and just press them together. She does it pretty often throughout the day. Normally when she isn’t occupied. At her 15m check up, I’m nuts lol and was concerned about autism but her doctor told me that she didn’t see any concerns. She said that pointing isn’t a big deal and that some never point. Especially since she’s the only child, doesn’t go around other toddlers, and I wait on on her hand and foot .. to where she doesn’t even have to ask me for anything. She also said the back of the hand to lip thing is probably a comfort thing and that she probably just likes the feeling of her lips on the back of her hand.
I basically want to know other mama’s opinions and if your toddlers have done similar things with the hands and if they pointed late and are fine now. Although, my pediatrician isn’t concerned and said she’s perfect and that her motor skills are also advanced. I just wanted to hear other mama’s thoughts and experiences:)
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