The Two-Year Review

Where to start

• Do the questionnaire at home, where your child is relaxed; ask for help if unsure.
• Write your questions down beforehand, sleep and behaviour included, and take the red book.
• If you’re worried before the review, contact your health visitor or GP.
• At about two, your child will be offered a health and development review, usually with a health visitor or a nursery nurse.
• In Scotland the health visitor comes to your home when your child is between twenty-seven and thirty months, and in Wales the health visitor sees your child at twenty-seven months.

The rest of the tip, and why it works, is in the library.

Sources

NHS, Your baby’s health and development reviews (reviewed November 2023); Parent Club (Scottish Government), Your health visitor; Welsh Government, Healthy Child Wales Programme: 2021 (2023)

It goes with

• Big Feelings and Co-Regulation. For parents whose child has just had a meltdown, on how to help them through it.
• Neurodiversity, and the Conversation with the School. For parents whose child has been working harder and longer than other children to do things that come more easily to them.

The first chapter you open here is free to read in full.

Free on this subject

• Child development. What to do first, what helps, and who else can help. Free to read and to print.
• Parenting strategy. What to do first, what helps, and who else can help. Free to read and to print.