By Diana Hembree, San Francisco Bay View, November 11, 2019
“My 2-year-old keeps falling down when he tries to walk.”
“My son is almost 24 months old, but all he can say is ‘mama’ and dada.’”
“She just turned 2, and she still can’t follow the simplest instructions.”
When your toddler misses a developmental milestone, like taking her first steps by age 2, it’s natural to fret. After all, in very rare cases, such delays may be a sign of an underlying condition.
But a recent study suggests that some delays may have a more surprising explanation. Children are more likely to miss developmental milestones by age 2 if their parents suffered traumatic events during their own childhood, according to researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.
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