Knack Raising Your Toddler: A Complete Illustrated Guide From First Steps To Preschool

by Marsha Greenberg, Sue Barr (Photographer)

Overview

Books on toddler development are typically heavy on words, and what photographs they do contain tend to show cute kids, but ones that don’t truly relate to the information in the text. Knack Raising Your Toddler is different. Packed with 375 full-color photographs of care essentials, emotions, and stages of growth (12–36 months), it gives busy parents a visually-driven reference filled with general advice, parenting tips, toddler behaviors, and resources in easy-to-understand format. 

•      375 full-color photos

•      25 illustrations

•      Coauthored by a parenting expert who is an M.S.W.

•      Organized by age and stage

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599216201
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/06/2010
Series:	Knack: Make It Easy
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Marsha Greenberg, M.S., M.S. W., has a  masters degrees in Child and Family Development and Social Work from the University of Michigan. As the Director of the Health Systems Child Care Program for over 14 years, she was responsible for over 250 children between the ages of 6 weeks and 6 years of age. She wrote the training manual for the program, designed the physical spaces and trained over 200 teachers specializing in infant toddler care including the training of Head Start staff in southeast Michigan.

Marhsa is also a certified childbirth educator. She has taught childbirth, postpartum, and newborn care classes for over 30 years in Michigan, New York and Atlanta.

Marhsa has lived in New York City since 2003, and she currently runs groups for new mothers, for mothers of toddlers, for mothers with special needs children and for working mothers. In She speaks regularly for Babybytes, a mother's luncheon group that meets monthly all over NYC, and Swellbeing, a support program for parents. She has discussed the struggles of working parents on-air in a Martha Stewart radio program. 

Marsha teaches in the Early Childhood Special Education department at NYU and has a private psychotherapy practice in NYC.

Marsha is a mother of three grown sons and two grandsons, 3 and 7 months old.

 
 
Sue Barr is an award-winning editorial and advertising photographer whose work has appeared in Parents, Working Mother, Wondertime, Parents, and Family Fun magazines among many others. Visit the photographer at www.suebarr.com

 

Table of Contents

Knack Raising Your Toddler

Contents

Chapter 1: Who is Your Toddler

Chapter 2: 12 to 18 Months: Milestones

Chapter 3: 12 to 18 Months: Caring for Young Toddler

Chapter 4: 12 to 18 Months: Approaching Meal Times

Chapter 5: 12 to 18 Months:  Play is Learning

Chapter 6: 12 to 18 Months: Social Connections

Chapter 7: 18 to 24 Months: Milestones  

Chapter 8: 18 to 24 Months: Caring for a Mid-Age Toddler

Chapter 9: 18 to 24 Months: Approaching Meal Times

Chapter 10: 18 to 24 Months:  Play is Learning

Chapter 11: 18 to 24 Months: Social Connections

Chapter 12: 24 to 36 Months: Milestones

Chapter 13: 24 to 36 Months: Caring for an Older Toddler

Chapter 14: 24 to 36 Months: Approaching Meal Times

Chapter 15: 24 to 36 Months: Play is Learning

Chapter 16: 24 to 36 Months: Social Connections

Chapter 17: Potty Training

Chapter 18: Behavior and Discipline

Chapter 19: Everyday Family Life

Chapter 20: Resource