Many parents are disturbed that, their kid how fully grows and develops. As soon as the child is 16 months old, most of fathers and mothers begin to be actively interested in a question what skills the child has to have at this time, setting it to the relatives or acquaintances whose children grew up for a long time.
Physical development
Regardless of a floor, the kid at the age of 16 months has to be able to move independently and even to run. And some children at this age are capable not only to go surely, but also to overcome small obstacles. Holding a support, some children even dance that positively affects strengthening of muscles and development of coordination of movements.
In 16 months children with ease respond on requests, help dad or mom, actively imitate them. At this stage of life the child can cope with simple tasks – a tax or to carry some subject, to take or put something. It should be taken into account that already available stock of skills at the child allows it to distinguish various objects which are required to be taken or transferred, from other things indoors.
Speech, communication and emotions
By 16 months of life of the child his speech takes the intelligent forms. Instead of unclear babble the child can pronounce the short and simple words anyway relating to a situation. For example, having seen a dog, the child in 16 months will pronounce distinctly aloud the word "Abacus" and will point to an animal. As psychologists speak, the lexicon at the kid at this age can strongly vary from 10 to 60 words. There are cases when the child begins to speak much later the specified term. In this case it makes sense to parents to pay attention to it. Expressive recitation will help to stimulate a speech development. Simple lines of the poem are perceived by the child easier, than long and compound sentences. A good incentive to a speech development in the child is joint reading the illustrated children's books. Studying colourful and bright pictures, and at the same time listening to the mother's or father's expressive story, the kid learns to acquire information both aurally, and visually. The simplest useful exercises from a complex of articulation gymnastics will allow to develop organs of articulation of the baby and to teach him correctly, to say sounds. According to logopedists, by two years the kid can already correctly learn to utter the sounds "П" and "B", "M" and "N", "And", "About". During reading books encourage attempts of the child to tell any given word, pointing it to an object to which this word belongs. It is worth remembering that the speed of a speech development in children considerably differs from abilities of memory: happens that children very quickly remember objects and their names, but at the same time experience difficulties with their correct pronunciation. At this stage also the range of emotions extends: for example, feeling discontent or offense, the kid can show them dissatisfied and angry intonation, often accompanying them at the same time with a mimicry which children in 16 months actively use, expressing the emotions at communication.
Household skills
At the age of 16 months most of children learn to eat by means of a spoon tasty food – puree, yogurts or sweet porridges. It is interesting that most often the kid perceives tasteless products with impassioned reaction or refuses food at all, removing from itself a plate. During meal the child, as a rule, keeps a spoon in a cam – experts consider it to retrain it at this stage not expedient. Here manifestation of children's independence when the kid gets used to eat without assistance is considered more important. While the kid eats, sitting in a stool for feeding, he should not disturb, trying to help needlessly.