VishruthaMom of 2 children4 years agoA. The only way is to have patience. Research and practice Gentle Parenting. Keep communicating constantly with your child and help him to express his emotions. Dont be aggressive or commanding as kids cannot control their emotions. Always speak calmly and make everything a fun game. Keep kid active atleast 3 to 5 hours in a day and other times involve them in activities such as play doh clay, building blocks like Lego, magnetic shapes, colouring, read board books loudly and listen and repeat sound books.
Just narrate your day and everything you do, and read read read.
Remember that kids can hear you and are listening even if they're not sitting still or making eye contact with you.
Lots and lots of reading, get some posters with shapes or colours to look at and point out what they are. After a while you can ask “what’s this shape?” Same with toy animals in the bath or just playing in general. With everything they do, you can tell them why it is, what they are doing, eating etc, and ask them to repeat it back to you..
Listening to songs are great and singing. Maybe he's going to get his voice through music. Vocabulary comes through stories, reading, songs, pictures. Use something he likes and tell him ALL about it. You don't have to feel behind. Every child is different and develop at their own pace. ❤️
Some toddlers do take time to say some words.. do make sure that you use the words mum and dad (on your language) in day to day conversation. Address yourself as mum..and your husband as dad. So shall mumma give you water..mumma water; what is papa doing.. papa is reading..papa reading..
As he points to things..ask questions..answer them, prompt the words for him, encourage him name them.
Play peek a boo, make sounds of cars, animals.
Rhymes and story books..try pausing for the last word in the sentence..let him complete it. Toddlers sometimes can choose to not respond if they are engrossed in their activities.
Its good to reduce screen time. Keep meal time as family/circle time.
Start adding an additional word for every one word he says.. Amma bye/eye/bike/hat/horse/come/go/sleepy/tired/hungry/book/food and so on.
Introduce concepts like colors, shapes, textures, numbers.
Instead of numbers and letters at this age, U can start age appropriate activities focussing on fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, gross motor skills, balancing , catching, sorting and identifying colors, shapes, shadow matching, visual discrimination, coloring , painting, different crafts, spatial skills like identifying above below, inside outside, up down, general knowledge things like animals , birds, fruits vegetables flowers body parts, pretend play. Its better to start alphabet teaching phonics rather than A - Z names.
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