1. Keep your food sources in metal or glass containers with secure lids. Mice can eat through cardboard, certain plastics, and other forms of containers to get at food. In order to cut down the mice's food supply, make sure that you don't leave any food out, or if you do, to put it in something that mice cannot get at.
At 18 months, children typically use around 50 (but we don't worry too much unless they have fewer than 10-20). At 24 months, children usually have an expressive vocabulary of 200-300 words (but we don't worry too much unless they have fewer than 50). At 3 years, children can have anywhere from 500-1,100 words in their vocabulary. By 5-7 years, children have an expressive vocabulary of 3000-5000 words.
The 25 âmust haveâ words are part of a much larger list of 310 words that should be in a toddlerâs vocabulary and designed to be ticked off in 10 minutes by parents. The average child will know 150 of the words in the Language Development Survey but scores of 75 to 225 are normal.