12 Months most children...
- * Pull themselves to stand and may step with support
- * Can nod their head to signal "yes"
- * Give love
- * Pick things up with thumb and one finger
- * Say two or three words
- FLU and Vitamin D3 TIP - Children over the age of 1
year should take 1,000 IU per every 25 pounds of body weight per day, depending on latitude of
residence, skin pigmentation, and sun exposure. On the days they are outside in the summer sun, they do
not need to take any; in the winter they will need to supplement accordingly. Children over the age of
10 years old should follow instructions for adults.
- In 1957 in America, it was typical to start potty training at 12 months with the vast majority of
children fully daytime potty trained within 6-12 months of that and nighttime potty trained by 3 years
old. Today, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the average is to start potty training at
24-25 months, achieving daytime potty trained at 36 months and night time around 5-6 years old.
- Today in many countries in Africa and Asia particularly, the average age a child would be fully daytime
potty trained was typically around 18 months old, instead of about double that today in the Western
world. The change began to happen around the mid-20th century thanks to the introduction of disposable
diapers and heavy marketing campaigns from the manufacturers, which included widely promoted (sponsored)
“scientific” studies that showed that it was bad for the child to potty train earlier (something still
often repeated today despite lack of any evidence supporting such a notion).