Responsibility

Birth to 2

Infants have no responsibility except to survive, expressed instinctively in crying to be fed and to have their physical needs met.

As children approach age two, they can begin to be asked to take responsibility for their own behavior -- to sit quietly at a restaurant, for example, and to hold back from running into the street. But their natural impulsiveness and their urge to experiment work against this, so they need constant adult supervision.

What Can Parents Do?