- 21. A Vitamin a Day
- (Nutrition & Fitness)
- Do you ever glance despairingly at what goes untouched on your toddler’s plate or consider what never makes it there in the first place and wish you could buy yourself a nutritional safety net to go along ...
- 22. Using Their Words: Helping Preschoolers Get a Good Start in Reading and Learning
- (Preschool)
- ... and toddlers. Parents need to be reminded of the power their voice has, and how their own babies will prefer to attend to their parent’s voice, given the opportunity, over other noises — such as a television.” ...
- 23. Social Development in Preschoolers
- (Preschool)
- ... advertisements, gifts from well-meaning relatives, and the approving comments of adults and other children. Boys, meanwhile, are generally guided away from dolls (although most enjoy them during the toddler ...
- 24. Nightmares and Night Terrors
- (Preschool)
- ... Screaming, crying, thrashing during sleep; may appear partially aroused, anxious and agitated. What age does it start? Frequently first occurs in toddlers and older. May ...
- 25. Why Accidents Happen
- (Toilet Training)
- ... four, our toddlers or preschoolers have come so far in terms of verbal skills and general comprehension that it’s easy to overestimate their ability to focus, prioritize, and remember. Research has shown, ...
- 26. What Toilet Training Teaches You
- (Toilet Training)
- ... techniques lead her to feel better or worse. Enjoying Your Self-Sufficient Child When it comes time for your toilet-trained child to say goodbye to toddlerhood and move on, you can congratulate yourself ...
- 27. Using the Potty on Their Own
- (Toilet Training)
- ... on the potty, for example—a technique that works well for many younger toddlers—but respond to a verbal reminder (“Lunch is over. Now, what’s next?”) that offers her a chance to respond successfully (“Potty ...
- 28. Using a Public Bathroom
- (Toilet Training)
- ... during the toddler years. As children grow and become more aware of gender differences—and more aware of their surroundings in general—public bathrooms can become an increasingly uncomfortable place for ...
- 29. Toilet Training Children with Special Needs
- (Toilet Training)
- ... she needs to succeed. Behavioral Disorders Your experience toilet-training a toddler who is behaviorally, intellectually, or developmentally challenged will depend a great deal on your particular child’s ...
- 30. Toilet Training and the Older Child
- (Toilet Training)
- ... routine. Or your toddler or preschooler may have experienced physical or developmental challenges that interfered with bladder or bowel control. If your child has recently tried and failed to master ...
- 31. The Right Age to Toilet Train
- (Toilet Training)
- ... their siblings’ or playmates’ bathroom use increases steadily through the toddler years and into preschool. Each of these aspects of development occurs at different times for different children, and ...
- 32. The Power of Association During Toilet Training
- (Toilet Training)
- ... Encourage other members of the family to demonstrate bathroom use as well—particularly older siblings, whom toddlers and preschoolers love to imitate. If you have twins, invite both to observe your or ...
- 33. Stages of Toilet Training: Different Skills, Different Schedules
- (Toilet Training)
- ... more months to start having bowel movements there. Daytime training may have been a breeze for your toddler, but he continues to wet the bed frequently through age five. Since the order and speed with ...
- 34. Regression
- (Toilet Training)
- ... on track. Identify the problem. Verbal as your toddler or preschooler may be, it is nearly impossible for most children this age to express the intense emotions they sometimes experience, often for ...
- 35. Putting Your Toilet Training Expectations Aside
- (Toilet Training)
- ... and civilized behavior—often calls up intense emotions that we may not have realized we had. This is why so many parents feel bewildered by bathroom mistakes that are actually quite common among toddlers ...
- 36. Problematic Toilet Behaviors
- (Toilet Training)
- ... cognitive development. The younger toddler’s ability to comprehend and respond to the body’s signals was noted as a necessary development before toilet training should be attempted. Further developments ...
- 37. Overcoming Obstacles While Toilet Training an Older Child
- (Toilet Training)
- ... anxieties that often accompany their stage of development. Contrariness springs from the same urge toward independence as the toddler’s frequent “No!” As your child develops and her thinking grows more ...
- 38. Learning from Observation
- (Toilet Training)
- ... answer a lot of your toddler’s unvoiced questions about elimination, but soon the desire to mimic your behavior may spur her to actually ask to use the toilet and to switch from diapers to underwear. Continue ...
- 39. It's Potty Time!
- (Toilet Training)
- “Mommy, I have to pee!” Aside from “I love you, Mommy and Daddy,” these may be the sweetest words your toddler can utter. Potty training is a monumental milestone that is on the wish list of every parent ...
- 40. How to Tell When Your Child is Ready
- (Toilet Training)
- ... potty to look at picture books still may not be able to comprehend the potty’s real purpose, while a two-year-old who knows what potties are for may refuse to use his out of a toddler’s natural desire ...