Being two is exciting, scary, interesting, confusing, satisfying and frustrating, all at the same time. Two-year-olds are exploring and establishing their sense of themselves as individuals, with all the experimentation in the laboratory of life that such research entails. Part of the charm and the challenge of working alongside two-year-olds is how different they can be. Diversity, changeability and personality are the watchwords for these people.
As well as a period of consolidation of the huge amount of learning and development that has gone on in a child's first two years, the third year of life involves many, varied and rapid developmental changes.
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