Book Review = Practical Guide to Toddler Parenting: Trusted Strategies for Busy Parents to Raise Kind and Confident Kids by Zoe Chiel

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This book provides expert-tested guidance on how to raise and care for toddlers without needing to resort to screaming or shouting that is exhausting to both kids and parents.  

Toddlers can be difficult to handle. As someone that has done daycare for years, I can attest that toddler years can be frustrating to both kids and adults. Toddlers are testing boundaries and parents are surprised by the willpower exhibited by these little humans

Parenting expert Zoe Chiel, a licensed psychologist and mother of three, addresses in this book the changes happening that often lead to meltdowns and power struggles. The author draws on both clinical expertise and real-life experience and in this book offers compassionate, practical tools to help busy parents experiencing joy with their toddler rather than despair.

The resulting book teaches parents how to balance pair warmth and connection with clear, consistent boundaries.The main lessons of this book are:

• advice on how to set realistic, developmentally appropriate expectations
• provide useful strategies and scripts that allow clear communication leading to positive behavior change
• guide to parenting approaches for common issues such as toddlers testing boundaries or throw tantrums
• list sample solutions for everyday challenges like picky eating and bedtime battles

Overall, a very useful and very practical book by an experienced expert in toddler education. The book is an easy to apply guide and allows the parent to go back and easily reread specific sections and find quick solutions to try for the most common toddler issues.  

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This book was provided free of charge to me in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed in this post are my own and have not influenced by any third party.