It’s official! My Munchkin has turned two. So does that mean I need to prepare for the terrible twos everyone talks about? Well, we’ll find out.

Unlike her first birthday, which we spent with a small family get-together, we were travelling on her second birthday. We, however, planned it in a way that we took her to the zoo on her birthday and what a great decision it was!

Time at the Zoo

My Munchkin has been to a local zoo earlier when she was much smaller then. She did enjoy it then as well but this time around was different. She recognized most of the animals and hence could enjoy the experience a lot more. You could actually see the joy when she was seeing the animal in real as compared to just seeing the pictures. In Montessori, we believe in giving real experiences to the child and it is at times like this where I truly understand how effective that is.

It was a long day but we did not feel it as My Munchkin was up and about all the time. We are definitely doing Zoo trips more often once back home.

Flight Experience

Although this wasn’t her first flight but it was a long one compared to the one she has done earlier so we were a little apprehensive. We planned the entire journey and took some travel activities for her to make sure she was busy on flight. It was a fairly good experience though and went by pretty easily. I will put up a detailed blog on the activities I made for the trip.

Terrible Twos

Most people dread this age and it’s always talked about as the terrible twos. There was a lovely post I shared sometime back that explains it really well, you can read it below:

https://www.facebook.com/munchkindiaries/posts/523506878048495

Very simply put, Munchkins this age are going through developmental changes and hence what we call tantrums are often frustration for them not being able to express themselves, for us not letting them try doing things themselves, for a “NO” we tell them for most things and so on..

Personally, we haven’t felt it so far and hoping that we would not in the future as well. Have you experience what they call as the ‘terrible twos’?