The Terrible Twos?

The late Jim Greenman, in his article "Great Places to Be a Baby: Infants' and Toddlers' Learning Environments," which is included the Beginnings Workshop curriculum unit, Environments to Engage Children, offers these thoughts:

"... toddlers and young twos are furiously becoming increasingly mobile, autonomous, social creatures armed with new language and insatiable urges to test and experiment. They embody contradictions: anarchists with an instinct to herd and cluster, assertive and independent now, passive and completely dependent moments later. These restless mobile characters have a drive to take apart the existing order and rearrange it, by force if necessary, to suit their own whimsically logical view of the universe. (The label 'terrible twos' speaks to the lack of appreciation for the toddler mode of being.)"

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