Toddler Vocabulary

6. Features and traits passed from parents to offspring.
7. Using large muscles in arms and legs.
9. The body and mind's automatic reaction to any demand, change, or pressure children face.
11. How much you value, respect, and feel confident in yourself.
13. The ability to recognize and understand your own thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and values, as well as how you impact the people around you.
14. Ability to put thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs into words, gestures, signs, or symbols.
15. Using small muscles in hands.

1. The process of teaching a young child how to use toilet.
2. Unwritten rules and expectations that society created for how boys and girls are supposed to act, dress, and behave.
3. Quick, natural body and brain signals that tell you how you feel about what is happening around you.
4. The cornerstone for healthy child development.
5. Evolving mental picture children form of who they are.
8. The big question of whether our inborn biology or our life experiences shape who we grow up to be.
10. Strong, uncomfortable feeling you get when you think something or someone might hurt you or be dangerous.
12. Everything around us.