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The Terrible Twos?
April 10, 2015
Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.
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-Dalai Lama
The late Jim Greenman, in his article "Great Places to Be a Baby: Infants' and Toddlers' Learning Environments," which is included the Beginnings Workshop curriculum unit, Environments to Engage Children, offers these thoughts:
"... toddlers and young twos are furiously becoming increasingly mobile, autonomous, social creatures armed with new language and insatiable urges to test and experiment. They embody contradictions: anarchists with an instinct to herd and cluster, assertive and independent now, passive and completely dependent moments later. These restless mobile characters have a drive to take apart the existing order and rearrange it, by force if necessary, to suit their own whimsically logical view of the universe. (The label 'terrible twos' speaks to the lack of appreciation for the toddler mode of being.)"
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Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 CommentsNJ, United States
I think these article(let) could also be entitled the "terrible teens"
MA, United States
Two year olds still have a vision of how the world should be, like lots of adult attention for children making them safe to explore, people's needs being met, everyone acting loving towards everyone else and humans getting to cry, rage, laugh, and shake until their feelings are out and their brains working well again after hurts come in. That is why this is the best age.
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