12–18 months

Somewhere around the first birthday everything reorganizes: your child pulls up, lets go, takes those first wobbly steps — and suddenly her hands are free to work. This stretch is about walking with purpose, posting things into things, stacking, and collecting first words. Most of these materials will hold her deeply for eight to twelve weeks before she's through them, so think rotation, not collection — two or three out on a low shelf, the rest resting in a closet.

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