Development and Discipline Children at this age should be learning many new words. You can help your child's vocabulary grow by showing and naming lots of things. Children have many different feelings and behaviors such as pleasure, anger, joy, curiosity, warmth, and assertiveness. It is important at this age to praise your child for doing things that you like. Make an effort to catch your children being good.
Toddlers often seem out of control, or overly stubborn or demanding.
Go through every room in your house and remove anything that is either valuable, dangerous, or messy. Preventive child-proofing will stop many possible discipline problems. Don't expect a child not to get into things just because you say no. Divert and substitute. If a child is playing with something you don't want him to have, replace it with another object or toy that he enjoys.