Two-year-olds are learning how to move out into the world with confidence in their own abilities and a confident expectation that they can look to others for help when necessary.
Most two-year-olds approach life as if it were a major research project.
They are continually investigating how things work, moving them around, taking them apart and undertaking close observations. They are fascinated by the effect of their actions on other people, objects and substances and need to repeat their experiments again and again.
Much of their exploration involves movement, of themselves or objects, and if it grabs their interest they can be absorbed for long periods of time.
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