Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender [Paperback]

Louise Bates Ames (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 1980

From thumb-sucking to toilet training to discipline -- everything you need to know about your two-year-old.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Dell (July 15, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440506387
• ISBN-13: 978-0440506386
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.4 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful reference, May 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender (Paperback)

Yes, this series of books can be a bit out of date in places. But if the reader recognizes and accommodates that, these are still -- by far -- the best books of their kind on the market. Like the others in this series, this book addresses the timeless issues of appropriate developmental milestones, including cognitive abilities, interaction with others, attention span, language recognition, interpersonal relationships, etc.

The text is reasonably neutral and instructive on hot topics such as discipline, sleep habits, and diet.

We have found this series of books to be an outstanding resource. If you look in the back of the popular Doris Herman book about preschool, you will find that she does, too.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dated but Succinct, Relevant & Nonjudgmental, March 3, 2004

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Oak Parker "safmom" (Oak Park, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender (Paperback)

This book is great at describing child behavior for this turbulent year. Its strength is in giving comfort to parents that they are probably doing a pretty good job. Yes, everyone tells you twos are hard, but this book spells out exactly how and why. Really leaves you with a sense of comfort that the spoiled egocentric behavior is not lifelong, but a necessary development.

The book does not claim to offer a solution or be the perfect expert (thank you!), but gives a few suggestions to parents to get through this period of development. I left my reading of it feeling much better about my parenting job.

Some of the language is dated (as are most classics), but I hang onto the statement, "every mother of a 2 1/2 year old needs plenty of breaks." Although one commentator questions the author's suggestion to limit choices at 2 1/2, she seems to limit that to this tough period where the child has a lot of new things happening. Limiting choices really helped in our case.

I recommend this book for any parent with a two year old.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent reference series, May 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender (Paperback)

This series of books (Your "X" Year Old) is a helpful reference for the parent. While in certain places the information seems dated or offbeat, generally the books are very helpful. They are at their best when recounting detailed observations of what "typical" two year olds say and do. Suggestions for "techniques" of getting through daily tasks with the two year old are helpful. A needed reassurance that neither you, nor your child, is abnormal.