The Mother of All Toddler Books: An All-Canadian Guide to Your Child's Second and Third Years (Paperback)

by Ann Douglas (Author)
Key Phrases: fine motor skills, incredible growing toddler, tips under diarrhea, Canadian Paediatric Society, Health Canada, Statistics Canada (more...)

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Product Description
The Mother of All Toddler Books is the one toddler book no Canadian parent should be without.  Written in the same friendly and non-bossy tone as the previous books in this bestselling series—and based on the best advice of more than 100 Canadian parents—The Mother of All Toddler Books takes you on a guided journey through the toddler years, highlighting they key attractions you and your child can expect to enjoy along the way.  Warm and informative, friendly and reassuring, The Mother of All Toddler Books is the ultimate guide to getting through the toddler years in the Great White North.

The Mother of All Toddlers Books offers

• the inside scoop on what it's really like to raise a toddler—the good, the bad, and the ugly
• proving strategies for coping with whining, biting, dawdling, temper tantrums, and other hazards of toddlerhood
• sensible advice on making toilet-training as stress-free as possible for you and your child
• creative suggestions for arts and crafts projects and other activities that you and your toddler will enjoy doing together
• comprehensive, medically-reviewed answers to all your toddler-related health questions (especially the ones that pop into your head the moment your doctor's office closes for the weekend!)
• a directory of key Canadian parenting and pediatric health organizations
• a list of Internet resources of interest to Canadian parents
• Canadian immunization schedules, toddler growth charts, child safety checklists, and much more.

About the Author
Ann Douglas is the author of 21 books, including the highly popular The Mother of all Pregnancy Books and The Mother of All Baby Books. She and her books have been featured in Parenting, Working Mother, the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times, and she has been invited to serve as a guest expert at such high-profile parenting and health web sites as BabyCenter.com, ParenSoup.com, and WebMD.com.  Her articles and columns regularly appear in such publications as Today's Parent, Canadian Living, Flare Pregnancy, Healthy Woman, and ePregnancy magazine.  Ann lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband and four children, ages five through fourteen.  She can be contacted via her Web site, www.having-a-baby.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (April 11, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1553350162
• ISBN-13: 978-1553350163
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,484,326 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A first-rate Canadian resource, September 7, 2002

By	Marie (mom and doula) (Toronto) - See all my reviews

I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of this book and was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy yesterday. I immediately sat down and read it from cover to cover. My verdict? It's excellent! I already recommend Ann Douglas' earlier books, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books and The Mother of All Baby Books, to my clients. Now I have an excellent toddler book to recommend as well.

Like the earlier books in the "Mother of All" series, The Mother of All Toddler Books is written with humour and yet is packed with all the need-to-know information: how to deal with everything from temper tantrums to food jags to toilet training. The chapter on behaviour management is packed with all kinds of innovative ideas for dealing with everything from biting to whining to screaming -- reason enough to buy the book.

Canadian parents will appreciate the fact that the book is packed with Canadian resources: leads on Canadian parenting and child health web sites, a directory of Canadian health and parenting organizations, health and safety recommendations from Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Canadian Toy Testing Council, and so on. It's simply a first-rate book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Helpful Edition to the Series, May 12, 2004

By A Customer

A great sequel to the previous "Mother of All" Books. I have had the pleasure of hearing the author give a presentation and found her to be very knowledgeable, supportive and funny. I really appreciate the humorous, true anecdotes of many parents with toddlers throughout the book. This is the key comfort factor for me that grounds this book in reality..that I am not alone in sometimes being unsure of what to do and ocassionally regretting what I chose to do. The warm, friendly tone of the author, a mother of 4 kids herself, is carried through her books and adds to the comforting fact that she has "been there, done that" along with us. I also would like to recommend another book that focuses on behavior issues of 2, 3, 4, and 5 year olds that has helped my family. "The Pocket Parent" is written in the same friendly tone by 2 mothers, each with 3 children. It also includes many short annecdotes from the authors' personal lives as well as from other parents relating to the hundreds of bulleted tips called "sanity savers" on every annoying behavior you can think of. Both of these upbeat, quick-read reference books are worth having in your home library.