Intellectual development in children 1 year 9 months

Unlike adults, children do not feel a sense of time. You may have noticed that expressions such as "hurry up" and "a second" mean "right now" for parents and older children, but for kids its have a slightly different meaning. Your toddler focus on the present, for it all happens here and now (he now wants to eat, he now wants to leave the store, he now wants to go for a walk).

For two years he gradually begins to understand what it means to "soon" and "later", especially if you give him enough specific examples. ("We'll have dinner soon, as soon as we come out of the store" or "Grandpa would come later, when we have lunch.")

By three years your child will begin to realize that there are events in the past, present and future, although many preschool children using "yesterday" for everything that happened in the past and "tomorrow" for any upcoming events. Already, more or less complete picture of the times is formed in children to six years. Then you can tell your child "Hurry up, and you'll be late" and he will understand what you mean.