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At 18 months she can understand that it is not alright to throw things, but only if you're consistent. If throwing is not allowed in the house then it is not allowed in the house, no exceptions. If it is allowed in the house then you'll have to accept that you've given approval for broad categories of objects to be thrown since her categorization skills ...
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Patience will be learned by experience. If you're patient with him when he incessantly asks about things, he will eventually 'grok'. At 2.5, he's not about to calm that stuff down, but I would expect 'predictable patience' within the next year or so.
The real reason for my post is secondary:
I'm no medical professional, but if this is a predictable pattern ...
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My immediate thought is that she is still very young - she is only just discovering her abilities, and being able to change one's surroundings gives great satisfaction. At 18 months, I would not expect her to be mentally able to understand the difference between things that are meant to be thrown and things that are not meant to be thrown. For now, you can ...
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We're in India but from a very remote and very small state of the North-East. Hence our language Manipuri is not spoken in our current city (Bangalore). It is very rare to hear our language in any other part of India.
My daughter is now 4½ years. During her early days, we did discussed how do we go about talking/teaching English but not let her totally skip ...
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I would suggest let the child grow up a little. when I read some of the achievements of kids who are 17 months (that is how old my kid is); I say to my self but my baby can't even figure our he should not bend down near the bed or he will hit him self. then i just stop reading, kids learn at their own pace!
Do play with him. Put up a colorful poster or ...
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Whatever the language, repetition is the key. If you want to have him understand Russian and English equally well, then you need to speak them with approximately equal frequency. Rather than just focusing on one word ("cat", "dog", "hello") at a time, use full sentences ("Come over here", "Sit down", "Let's eat a snack"). You can try telling him something ...
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