At my son's 2 year check about a month ago, his health visitor said they usually look for children his age to be able to make short sentences with about 3 words so yes that's right!
While I always agree with everything on here about elleh, the woody not saying enough words always annoys me.
I used to have people go on at me that my 4 boys didn't all talk at 2.
I was lucky I had a wonderful hv for the first 3,who could see they were not behind at all, and simply were learning to talk last. They grew up in a bi lingual household and found talking the last thing they picked up. She didn't judge or make me feel like a bad parent. As I'm not. Kids all learn in different orders.
My 4th baby again wasn't talking at 2 and the hv in the UK made me feel like a lazy
twit for not teaching him to talk.
I'm not lazy, my kids are not behind. My elsest was moved the year above in school because he was so advanced, but couldn't string 2 words together at 2. And my other 3 are all achieving above average in school. So not talking and saying 3 words in a row at 2 really hasn't afdected them. Here in the UK, we expect alot from our children at a young age. In other countires in Europe, these age limits are not as low as here. Children are allowed to grow at their own pace and are not expects to be reaching these milestones until they start school at age 6.
Not every child is the same and we can't expect them all to do exactly the same thing at the same time as the next one. Dosemt have to mean they have problems