How do you explain disability to a two year old?

I think you've explained it as much as you need to explain it to a 2 year old. If you explain it to him when he's a little older then he will understand, but I don't think there's any great need for him to understand it at the moment as he's so young. Children are very accepting, so they won't judge disabled people any differently to able-bodied people.

The others covered this well. Kids are curious and asking questions and getting answers is how they learn. It's important that you, as a parent, don't have any voice tone or body language that might allow your child to pick up that you think there's anything wrong with being disabled. They pick up on that. How you respond to a child's questions depends on the age of the child. I think you did well with your answer. Letting children get to see persons different than them - different abilities, different races, etc. - is an important part of parenting and educating. People are often wary and afraid of things they don't know or understand. By making sure they have the opportunity to learn about people who are different, it helps them NOT develop fears, and hopefully NOT develop prejudices.

Children this age have a natural curiosity, as you've noticed, and don't always understand why others are different from us. At his age, I would simply explain that everyone is made differently, and not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to walk or even have feet, like he does. I would even take him up to these people he is curious about so he can talk to them and see that they are regular people, too. Young children are so much more accepting of people who are disabled than older people are... I remember seeing a man whose legs were wasted, dragging himself by his hands through a store, and my young son actually went up to him and asked him what was wrong with his legs! I was so embarrassed, but the man was not offended at all, just smiled and told my son that he had polio when he was little. I don't think children's natural curiosity offends disabled people as much as igorant comments made by adults who should know better!

[i]Hi little one, I guess you gave the right explanation but still they will wonder what happen? and so on and so forth! I know how hard it is but as long as we will just simplify the explanation to their level, for sure kids will understand but I know inquiries are non-stop so we have to be ready! LOL! I haven't tried that situation but like you I will also tell them about it and maybe in this way, we can integrate to these kids the value of taking care of their bodies like no playing in the stairs, no running in the streets and so on and so forth so that also they will learn how to value their body parts![/i]

I think you did the right thing, it is hard to know what to say and even if you had the most perfect text book answer it doesn't mean the children will respond as you would like them too. It isn't something you can hide and i agree at 2 years old it would be very hard to explain this so simple thing like that will help them to understand as they get older.