Your child probably experiments constantly with new sounds and words, including bad words... Children listen and learn, sucking in new things like a sponge. If you want to help their language development even more, read and sing a lot to your baby!

At this age, your child needs to move about a lot. They investigate their surroundings with great interest, their motor skills develop and coordination is refined.

For children, potty training is about training both the nervous system and the muscles around the bladder and intestines when it's time to learn how to stay dry. For you as a parent, it's about learning to read your child's signals and allowing your child to take as long as they need to learn.

The key to learning to read is often closely linked to being curious about reading. Many parents want to teach their children to read quickly, because they know how much fun it is, and that reading opens the door to an enormous world of knowledge and imagination.

Most young children have “ants in their pants” and find it hard to sit still. Some are quiet and introverted. This may be part of their personality or simply a phase in their development. When do you start worrying that abnormal behaviour is a sign of ADHD or autism?

It's hard to tell if your child has a speech disorder. Speech and language development varies greatly between children when they are little. Just trust your instinct and contact your paediatric clinic if you're worried about anything at all.