Guiding Your Toddler's Development: Eating, Sleeping, Toilet Training and More Guiding Your Toddler's Development:
Eating, Sleeping, Toilet Training and More
By Calvin A. Colarusso, M.D.,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego
Product Description
You knew the terrible twos were coming. You had been warned. But now they’re here, together with questions you never considered to ask. Why won’t he go to sleep? Where should she sleep? Just how long can you be away without causing permanent trauma? Who should care for your tot if you can’t be there? Why is there cereal everywhere in your once clean kitchen but in her mouth? Can you really win an argument using the little guy? When does toilet training start? Why on earth is she having fun with poop? If you do this wrong, will your child be damaged forever?!
toddlerBelieve it or not, there are answers, with a little humor, lots of understanding, and 50 years’ experience, eminent authority in neuro-scientific development, child psychiatrist, and master clinician Cal Colarusso, M.D. will ease your mind, answer your questions and supply step-by-step guides that will not only reassure your frazzled parent mind, but additionally make your most important job - raising your child - a little easier.
Guiding Your Toddler’s Development: Eating, Sleeping, Toilet Training and More gives clear explanations of the toddler’s behavior and practical recommendations, including what to say when the going gets tough.
It includes:
• Developmental concepts
• Examples of how your tyke deals sees the world, and what that means for you as a parent
• Separation anxiety (yours too!)
• Choosing the very best caretaker for your toddler
• How to deal with difficult behaviors
• Toilet training guidelines
• And perhaps most importantly, the word every two year old loves: NO!
child developmentThe way you guide your toddler’s development sets a basis for the rest of his life. Make use of the strategies in this book to become an effective parent of a happy child.
Dr. Colarusso is a board-certified Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego, where he served for 2 decades as Director from the Child Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst in child and adult psychoanalysis in the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute as well as an internationally known lecturer to students, professionals, and the general public on many facets of normal and pathologic development.
His six books have been published in English, Spanish, and Korean. See http://amzn.to/calcolarusso.
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