Parenting Tips for Your 13-14 Month Old Toddler
You may have seen how your little one likes to copy what you do. She may try to feed you pieces of food the way you feed her. If you accept the food and show you enjoy it, she will laugh. This makes her feel important.
You will enjoy seeing your child try to copy the things you do—eating, washing, cooking, cleaning, and so forth. Your little one will really enjoy having you play games in which you copy her. She likes that because it shows her that what she does is important to you. This helps build her self-confidence.
Try copying her hand movements, her play activities, her body movements, or her language. She’ll laugh, and she’ll be learning how her own movements look to you.
Mirror play is fun for your little one at this age. She likes to watch you in the mirror while you copy her. She’ll also enjoy just watching herself in the mirror. She’ll laugh at her smile in the mirror and may pat or kiss it.
You can use copying to help your little one learn. When she is learning to drink from a cup, you can drink to show her how. When you want her to pick up toys, pick up toys yourself.
You can have your child build with cans, boxes, or other objects. You can have her build things by copying what you do. You can build houses, trains, or bridges.
