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Here's When Toddlers *Really* Start To Understand & Recognize Colors
Children are constantly awash in a world of brightly colored toys and clothing designed to pique their visual interest from their infancy through childhood.
Learning to differentiate between these shades is a huge developmental milestone, but when do toddlers learn colors? It feels essential that they recognize their bright red overalls as bright red, or that marker they've been sleeping with for three weeks as the perfect shade of yellow, right?
Like almost all of the major developmental milestones, it will happen in its own time, but there is a range that is considered average.
Board-certified developmental and behavioral pediatrician Dr. Eboni Hollier from Houston, Texas tells Romper, "Around 18 months of age, many toddlers begin to recognize colors." That's not to say that they're suddenly going to be strolling through Target with you, demanding that you buy them the turquoise socks instead of the green ones (that comes later).
Hollier says, "It is typically a bit later that toddlers are
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