Ellen Bowers - The Everything Guide to Raising a Toddler: All You Need to Raise a Happy, Healthy, and Confident Toddler

Dear Reader,

Raising a small child is one of the most creative adventures you can have. Through the amazing growth of your toddler you will discover everything about life once again for yourself. Whatever you took for granted is suddenly not true from the perspective of this wondrous small person. Your toddler has unusual names for things, quirky categories, and strange and mysterious ways of accomplishing ordinary tasks. Guiding your toddler through this stage of childhood will require more energy than you would ever think is humanly possible, but the result is worth ita three-year-old who is more conversational, more sociable, more self-disciplined, and in general, quite a pleasant member of your family.

This unique, rewarding responsibility gives you a role in forming the character of the next generation! Have some fun, and realize that at the same time you are creating incredible memories for your family. Take lots of photos and note the details in a baby book or blog, as these short months are irreplaceable.

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THE
EVERYTHING
GUIDE TO
RAISING
A TODDLER

All you need to raise a happy,
healthy, and confident toddler

Ellen Bowers PhD

This book is dedicated to Janet, who taught me most of what I know about children and everything I know about being a mother.

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Contains material adapted and abridged from The EverythingCooking for Baby and Toddler Book by Shana Priwer and Cynthia Phillips, copyright 2006 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-59337-691-X; ISBN 13: 978-1-59337-691-8, and The Everything Toddler Activities Book by Joni Levine, MEd, copyright 2006 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-59337-588-3; ISBN 13: 978-1-59337-588-1.

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