Our newest, 4-part Preparation for the Toddler Years, DVD’s and studen workbooks are now available. The presentation is fast moving, informative, and filled with practical advice for parents ready to face off with a walking, talking, curious pre-toddler and all that comes with this growth and transition phase. Introductory offer 4 DVD set and two studen workbooks, $59.95 Read about it below. 

Preparation for the Toddler Years,
(Parenting Your 12 - 18 Month Old)
 

Introduction

Between the ages of twelve and eighteen months, your pretoddler is on a one-way track to the future. This is a growth phase made-up of tiny transitions linking the babyhood days with the up coming toddlerhood months. It is a time when your child is in neither place.

We wish we could title this series “Four Easy Visits.” Unfortunately, that would not be descriptive of the unfolding days ahead. This transitional period will be anything but easy, especially for first-time parents. That is because the staggering speed in which your pretoddler will grow physically and develop mentally can catch any parent off guard. Thus the title Preparation for the Toddler Years is most relevant.

Everything contained within this series is related to helping parents acquire useful knowledge that will prepare them for what lies around the next corner – the reality of toddlerhood. For now there are plenty of new skills to master and new behaviors for parents to understand. Helping you make wise decisions on behalf of your child now and in the future is one of our primary goals for this presentation. The more parents understand the various transitions, the more confident they become in managing their child’s world.

It’s beneficial to the reader to have a general road map of where this journey will take us. For example, in our first visit, we address the challenges that are part of a pretoddler’s unfolding world. We will also look at some trustworthy goals and objectives for this transitional period. We conclude with a challenge to fathers. What does it means to Mom and child when Dad is fully engaged in the parenting process? Everything wonderful.

Food and nutrition are the primary points of discussion in the second visit. We’ll cover the fundamentals of dietary change and discuss some potential food challenges that often accompany this phase of growth. We close our visit with a thorough discussion of naps and nighttime sleep transitions.

We then move to Visit Three and waketime activities. Here, the conversation turns to one of the most important pretoddler and toddler parenting strategies, the funnel factor. While we can not provide a 100% guarantee relating to outcome, we can promise that when applied consistently, this parenting strategy will lead to less frustration for mom, dad and child and many more moments of family harmony. Visit Three is all about how to rightly manage your child’s play environment and the impact that will have on his ability to learn and gain age-appropriate self-control.

From there we move to Visit Four and age-appropriate forms of correction. The preventative side of training, doing those things that help reduce the need for correction, is the primary emphasis of our discussion. But human nature, being what it is, means correction in the life of your pretoddler, will still be necessary. What will that look like in your home? We concluded our series with Appendix A - “The Pretoddler Topic Pool”. There we provide a myriad of topics of common interest that are directly related to your everyday experience as a parent of a pretoddler. Read more about Preparation for the Toddler Years at www.growingkids.org