Parenting Your Toddler: The Expert's Guide to the Tough and Tender Years

By Kate Ballen and Patricia Henderson Shimm

Book Overview

The essential hand-holding guide to navigating the difficult toddler years--by one of the country's leading experts

Here is direct and wise guidance from a professional with over twenty years' experience at the highly regarded Barnard College Center for Toddler Development. In Parenting Your Toddler, Ballen and toddler expert Shimm offer help to parents on major issues like limit-setting; first-child syndrome; toilet training; taking a vacation without guilt; what to say when your two-year-old doesn't want you to leave for work; how to break up fights between children over toys; and how to know if your caregiver is good for your toddler. With an easy-to-use format that features useful anecdotes, checklists, and questions and answers, this authoritative guide will help you navigate the toddler years with solid, practical, and loving advice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020162298X
• ISBN13: 9780201622980
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Balance
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Worth it!

This book is not bulky, yet covers a variety of important toddler topics. It has greatly influenced many of my parenting choices. It is an easy read that proves to be an essential for any parents wishing to be informed and assured.

The best book ever written on toddlers

This is the best book ever written on toddlers, with the most practical advice and information. Best of all, it is easy to refer to when you don't have time to read. Pat Shimm and Kate Ballen are geniuses!

You will refer to it again and again

A must have for parents of toddlers. You will refer to it again and again. Contains very helpful advice and really helps one understand their child.