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Overview
The toddler time, between one and two years old, is an exciting period of self-definition, exploration, and physical and emotional growth for your child. This easy-to-read book, illustrated with more than 200 photos, provides a vivid look at everyday life with a toddler and offers hundreds of creative play activities; expert advice on managing problem situations; and ideas for encouraging creativity, exploration, and language skills. Some of the strategies for daily living included in the book are:- toilet training
- dressing
- helping around the house
- going out in public
- controlling temper tantrums
- gaining physical prowess
- the timid or fussy explorer
- everyday routines
- helping Mom and Dad
- word power
- making friends
- having fun with toys
- pretending
Provides vivid descriptions of how two-year-olds see themselves, learn language, learn to play imaginatively, and make friends. This third volume in the series uses specific situations to describe and advise on routine problems and concerns common to this age.
Synopsis
Established in 1986, now updated and expanded, based on more than 20 years of research and observation, written in jargon-free, parent-friendly language, these books respect cultural differences and recognize the value of different parenting styles. Their focus is to help parents and caregivers turn everyday routines into playful learning opportunities and enhance communication between children and adults. The photos of real children at play are candid and reflect all cultures.
One to Two Years, Exploring, Learning, Making Friends, and Pretending provides a vivid look at everyday life with a toddler and offers hundreds of creative play activities; ideas for encouraging creativity and language skills; strategies for toilet training, dressing, going out in public, controlling temper tantrums, and much more.
Children's Literature
They say that all work and no play can make a person boring, and this book will guarantee that parents will never have a bored child. Author Marilyn Segal, an expert in child development, has put together an easy-to-read and practical guide for playing with your child that enhances imagination and learning. Arranged into sections that focus on broad areas such as Emptying and Filling; the Timid or Fussy Explorer; and Hands On Everything, other sections address everyday living such as Helping Mom and Dad and Going Out in Public. Feelings, social interaction and developing vocabularies are also touched on in several chapters. Each chapter includes ideas for playing with your child along with photographs demonstrating activities. Any parent who has had to spend time with a toddler will appreciate these suprisingly easy ideas for having fun, learning, building intimacy and diffusing potentially difficult situations. One to Two Years is part of the "Your Child at Play" series.