Oh Crap! I have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years-No Time Outs Needed Audiobook (Free)

Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting assistance from the writer of the bestselling Oh Crap! Toilet Training.

Toddlers—commonly thought as children aged between two and five years outdated—can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as poor behavior is in fact just curious behavior. Toddlerdom may be the age group of individuation, searching for control, and above all, learning the way the world functions. But this misunderstanding between parents and child can result in power challenges, tantrums, and about Oh Crap! I’ve a Child: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years-No Time Outs Needed also diminished growth and creativity.

The recent push of early intellectualism coupled with a wish to “make childhood magical” has created a strange paradox—we’ve three-year-olds with math and Mandarin tutors who don’t learn how to dress themselves and so are sitting within their own poop. We are pushing the toddler brain beyond its limit but concurrently keeping them significantly below their own natural capabilities.

In the frank, funny, and totally authentic Oh Crap! I’VE a Toddler, social worker Jamie Glowacki assists parents work through what she considers the five essential components of raising toddlers:

—Participating the toddler brain

—Dealing with the toddler body

—Understanding and coping with the child behavior

—Creating a good toddler environment

—You, the mother or father

Oh Crap! I’VE a Toddler is about doing even more with much less—and bringing real childhood back from your brink of over-scheduled, over-stimulated, helicopter parenting. With her signature down-and-dirty, friend-to-friend guidance, Jamie is here to help you experience the joy of parenting again and offering your kid—and yourself—the freedom to let them develop at their own pace and become who they are.