By the time our child is two years old, we are tired of changing diapers! We eagerly look forward to the day our child uses the potty all the time! But mom, it’s a process. It takes time and patience on your part. The good news is, your child WILL learn to use the potty. You won’t be changing diapers when he is school age. Here is some help in choosing the right time and a good method to use.
Tantrums!
Tantrum Tamers – Practical suggestions for ways to stop tantrums
Dr. Leman’s approach to Temper Tantrums
Baby Signing is an method to cut down on tantrums in pre-verbal children
Feeding Toddlers
What’s the difference between a picky eater and a problem eater?
“Picky Eaters” Will Not Starve Themselves, but Problem or Resistant Eaters Might
by ISA MARRS
I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about picky eating. When I say “picky eater” I am referring to a child who has picky behaviors but can learn to eat a broader diet and change the bad habits that are negatively impacting themselves and their families. However, when it comes to feeding disorders there is a continuum of severity. And many of you have children with more severe food aversions.
Approximately two-thirds of children on the autistic spectrum have severe food aversions which can impact their growth and development. While this population of children often has feeding aversions it is in no way limited to them.
Read more at SpeechLanguageFeeding.com
Ten Nutrients Every Child Needs]
Poop or No Poop
Since we have to clean it up, we are very aware of what kind of poop our baby is making. We see different colors, different amounts, different consistencies. Some of them really worry us. The explosive poop of breast fed babies or the days of no poop, what does it mean and what can we do about it? Here are some helpful suggestions:
Baby or toddler constipation
Try Poop Goop– Two different concoctions to whiz up for your baby/toddler’s constipation
Long-term constipation – see When Your Child Just Can’t Go
To get the article in pdf – click here: When Your Child Just Can’t Go.
Breast-fed Baby’s Explosive Poop
Q.
I know breast fed babies have different colored and often softer stools then formula babies. My baby’s stools are very soft with the majority liquid. None of the seedy things the books and peds talk about seeing are present. When he goes, it’s nothing short of explosive. When I say explosive, even if the diaper is new and dry, it comes out with such force (and noise) that very little is caught in the diaper and it gets very little saturated. The poop shoots out the sides and back to the point you can feel it hit you if you’re holding him. Both docs told me I just need to get used to the softer stools of nursing and I felt like they thought I was exaggerating. Its been two weeks of what I would call liquid stools and I’m concerned about him being dehydrated or actually having something wrong. I called the nurse line today and talked to her about it and she said it sounded normal, but she’d be happy to bring in me to talk to another doc. Am I crazy to feel like this is not normal? We have gone through 5 blow out outfits since 5am, not counting spit up changes and its only 5pm.
Reading
This is one of the most important and difficult skills your young child will undertake. You begin the process early with helping him learn to speak and reading out loud to him. Here are some good resources for helping your child learn to read.
Reading Aloud Everyday from Birth Onwards
The American Academy of Pediatricians has issued a policy statement encouraging pediatricians to promote literacy by encouraging parents to read aloud to their children from birth onwards. Read the post: Read Aloud Everyday
Also read the original article by the Huffington Press.
Why reading to your baby is so important, gives lots of reasons and ways to read to your baby and growing child.
Teaching Sight Words
Sight Word Flash Cards from Parents.com are a free download of printable flashcards. These are the 200 most frequent words that cannot be sounded out with phonics. When children learn these words, they can read much more fluently.
Be sure to stop by the Mr. Printable page for many more options. You must sign into the site, but no personal information is required.
Teaching Toddlers to Read
The mom of a 22 month old asked me recently what she should be doing to teach her child to read. Her daughter reads words that she has never been taught. She was saying, “Moot,” while pointing to an apple juice bottle. Her mom had never referred to it as anything other than apple juice, but the brand name was Mott. Is she reading and what should this mom do to teach her daughter?
Recently an infomercial aired in the US for Your Baby Can Read. It sounds like a great idea, but is it worth the money and time?
Researchers are agreed that the neural pathways necessary for decoding letters then mentally combining them to form words are not ready until around 5 years of age?
So, who is right and what is a parent to do?
Read more. . .Teaching Toddlers to Read
The Role of Memory in Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension involves a variety of neuro-developmental functions, including attention, memory, language, and higher order cognition. In this post, we’re going to focus on the role of memory.
Memory:
While reading, we must hold important information and concepts in our minds. We must process words, sentences and paragraphs together in order to gain full meaning of what we’re reading. In addition, we must call up relevant information we already know. Memory is essential in helping us comprehend as we read, make associations between prior knowledge and new information, and remember that same information at a later time, such as during a test.
Here are some possible signs that a student is succeeding with the memory demands of reading:
Read more at: All Kinds of Minds Blog
How to Read with a Beginning Reader
Most beginning readers are inconsistent. Learn more about the characteristics of a beginning reader and simple techniques and tips to nurture your child’s skills and joy in reading.
Sometimes parents of beginning readers wonder if their child is on track with reading. They don’t understand why their child can’t read a word today they were able to read yesterday. They think their child reads too slowly. They grumble that their child only wants to read the same book over and over again.
Most beginning readers are inconsistent. They may know a word one day but not the next. They may read a particular word correctly on one page, but they have to stop and sound it out again on the next page. When you listen to a beginning reader, you hear short, choppy words with little attention to punctuation. Sometimes a new reader can tell you very little about what they just read.
At the beginning stage of reading, all of these reading behaviors are to be expected. Beginning readers are building their fluency. This means they’re working to make several skills, like matching a letter to a sound and decoding, more smooth, accurate and automatic. Without fluency, each word must be decoded, and that takes time and energy. This means that other reading behaviors like reading with expression and comprehension have less of a focus.
Learn more from: Reading Rockets
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