Toddlers: 1-4 years

5 alternatives to the naughty step

Looking for a more constructive ways of tackling your toddler's bad behaviour? Try these alternatives.

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Toddler behaviour

• Biting bullying and kicking - aggressive toddlers
• How to stop your toddler whining
• Tidying up - help your toddler help you
• Weaning a toddler off TV
• Tantrums - spotting the triggers and avoiding them
• Tantrums - how to respond to them
• Tantrums - breath-holding and throwing up
• Shy toddlers - encouraging them to make friends
• Separation anxiety in toddlers
• Head-banging toddlers
• Security blankets and comfort objects

Toddler parenting skills

• Giving your toddler a sense of security
• Active listening so your toddler will talk
• Praising your toddler and building confidence
• Coping with the Terrible Twos

Toddler sleeping habits

• How much sleep does your child need?
• Toddlers and sleep routines
• Toddlers and nightmares
• Night terrors
• Moving from a cot to a bed

Potty training

• How to tell if your child is ready
• Toilet training tips
• Holding it in
• When your toddler starts wetting themselves again
• Pooing in the bath

Out & about

• Long-haul travel with toddlers
• Car travel tips
• Eating out with toddlers
• Pint-sized Houdini - toddlers that run off

Childcare

• What are your childcare options?
• Choosing a nursery for your toddler
• Nursery - helping your child settle in
• Toddler being picked on in playgroup or nursery?
• Finding a good babysitter

Toddler food & nutrition

• Introducing your toddler to textures
• A healthy diet for your toddler
• Toddler nutrition- vitamins, fats, proteins and minerals
• Overweight toddler?
• Dairy in a toddler's diet
• Dairy-free toddler's diet
• My toddler won't eat vegetables!
• Toddlers and breastfeeding
• Hyperactivity and diet
• Lactose intolerance
• Boosting a weak immune system

Family issues

• The right time to have a second child?
• New baby on the way? Preparing your toddler
• New baby on the way? Toddler jealousy
• New baby: why toddlers regress
• New baby: when toddler turns away from mum

Child development

• 12-18 months: Growing up
• 12-18 months: Hello world!
• 12-18 months: Speech and vocabulary
• 12-18 months: Growing independence
• 12-18 months: Dependently independent
• 18-24 months: Time for toilet training?
• 18-24 months: Running and tumbling
• 18-24 months: Speaking up
• 18-24 months: Learning new stuff
• 18-24 months: The terrible twos
• 2-3 years: Running and jumping
• 2-3 years: Everything under control
• 2-3 years: Why? Why? Why?
• 2-3 years: Speaking and stuttering
• 2-3 years: A sense of self
• 2-3 years: Making friends
• 3-5 years: Leaving babyhood behind
• 3-5 years: Accidents can happen
• 3-5 years: Learning and remembering
• 3-5 years: Emotional changes
• 3-5 years: Sense or right and wrong

Toddler health

• Aspergers and toddlers
• ADHD and toddlers
• Diet and ADHD
• Is my toddler dyspraxic?
• Facial disfigurement and toddlers
• Toddlers and headlice
• Anoxic Seizures
• Weak Reflux Valve
• Foreskin hygiene
• Sport and exercise for pre-schoolers

Starting school

• Choosing a nursery for your toddler
• Nursery: helping your child settle in
• How preschoolers learn
• How to find out about primary schools
• Choosing a primary school for your child
• Ask our experts: September-born children
• Starting school: ready for reception?
• Is your child picked on at playgroup?
• 1-4 year-olds: tackling pre-school bullies
• Ask our experts: shy child starting school
• Ask our experts: first-choice school appeal

Your talk

Talk about toddler issues with other parents in our forums.

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• Ideas for breakfast

• Calling a spade a spade

• I think my 2yr old is trying to wind me up!!

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