Real-world, from-the-trenches child parenting suggestions from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Toilet Training.

Toddlers—commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old—could be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents look at as bad behavior is actually just curious behavior. Toddlerdom is the age of individuation, searching for control, and most importantly, learning how the world works. But this misunderstanding between parents and kid can result in power struggles, tantrums, and about Oh Crap! I have a Young child: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years-No Period Outs Needed even diminished development and creativity.

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

In the frank, funny, and totally authentic Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler, interpersonal employee Jamie Glowacki helps parents sort out what she considers the five important components of raising toddlers:

—Participating the toddler mind

—Dealing with the young child body

—Understanding and coping with the young child behavior

—Creating an excellent toddler environment

—You, the mother or father

Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler is approximately doing more with much less—and bringing real childhood back through the brink of over-scheduled, over-stimulated, helicopter parenting. With her signature down-and-dirty, friend-to-friend suggestions, Jamie is here to assist you experience the pleasure of parenting again and offering your child—and yourself—the freedom to let them grow at their have pace and be who they are.