Product Description

Geared to the special needs of teenage parents, this book helps young moms and dads face the challenges of raising a toddler, such as understanding and dealing with developmental stages, illness, and constant activity. More than 100 young parents talk not only about parenting, but about meeting their own needs such as developing a close relationship with another person while parenting a toddler, handling the complications of extended family living, dealing with day-to-day crises, and planning for their futures. Toddlerhood is divided into six-month intervals, covering subjects such as language development, emotions, weaning, reading, mealtime, the father-child relationship, sleep, potty training, health, and safety. Related discussions pertaining to the personal life of teen parents include dating, marriage, divorce, family planning, and financial responsibility.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #594027 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .51" h x 5.52" w x 8.46" l, .59 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-- Lindsay continues her child-rearing series that features personal narratives and informal advice. First-person accounts printed in italics, with the citation of names and ages of both parents and children, alternate with the low-key commentary. The format reads a bit like an advice column with each person presenting a particular problem. Dividing toddlerhood into six-month intervals, Lindsay covers language development, emotions, weaning, reading, mealtime, the importance of father/child relationship, sleep, the extended family, potty training, health, and safety. Related discussion directed at the personal life of teen parents includes dating, marriage, divorce, family planning, and financial responsibility. While this is a helpful approach, it will not replace a good comprehensive child-care manual that gives guidance about what to expect at various stages of children's lives. Also, almost half of the books in the bibliography are published by Morning Glory. This volume does succeed in offering a challenge to young parents to refrain from accepting a limited view of life's possibilities because of early childbearing. --Lois McCulley, Wichita Falls High School, TX
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
An entry in the ``Teens Parenting'' series, focusing on children ages one through three, with family profiles setting the stage for developmentally appropriate activities. Presenting the period from eight months to two years as a time of high risk, Lindsay (Discipline from Birth to Three, p. 1090) emphasizes that lots of learning must take place then. Her enchantment with toddlers' new mobility comes out in wonderfully expressive nouns and verbs: the toddler is a ``whirlwind little person who scoots everywhere.'' Subjects include bedtime rituals, health concerns, temper tantrums, the purpose of play and the place of the imagination, involvement and noninvolvement of fathers, and mealtime pleasures and difficulties. Throughout, Lindsay delineates what's possible and what's not: e.g., toddlers can't color ``in the lines'' (and shouldn't have stifling coloring books anyway). Surprisingly, there's no section on day care, but the information that is here is covered with an evenhanded, multicultural set of perspectives. Sensible advice in a solidly useful handbook. Illustrated with candid b&w photos. Bibliography; index. (Nonfiction. 14+) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.