Sentences with phrase «control than a toddler»

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A slow nighttime routine is always better than a speedy one, and toddlers tend to respond better when they have some semblance of control over their lives, so slow down in the evenings and give your toddler some control over their bedtime by cutting out colorful pictures of each element of the routine and pasting them on magnets or ping - pong balls, then let your toddler arrange the magnets in the order they want to do bedtime or pick the ping - pong balls out of a jar for a fun element of surprise.

So if you're still in the long, lonely, scratchy tunnel of baby / toddler sleep, store this info away for when you actually have real control over bedtimes and waking times and aren't just trying to get more than 5 uninterrupted hours for survival purposes.

There's more to potty training than just learning to use the toilet; your toddler must also be able to come to a conscious realization that she needs to go potty, and she must also be able to control her muscles enough to «hold it» until she gets to the toilet.

Being active does more than help your toddler improve muscle control, balance, and coordination.

Being relaxed about the process often means that toddlers actually gain confidence - and control - sooner rather than later.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Toddlers want independence and control over their environment — more than they may be capable of handling.

After controlling for other factors, such as parents» educational status and the number of children per household, the analysis revealed that for every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs, toddlers understood an average of six to eight words fewer than those who did not view them.

As your toddler becomes better able to control her body, you may notice that she is more excited than ever to show you what she can do.

By 24 months, intervention mothers reported less harsh discipline and unreasonable expectations with their toddlers than did control mothers.

Research indicates that depressed mothers, especially when their depression is chronic, are less sensitive with their infants and toddlers, play with and talk to their children less, and provide less supportive and age - appropriate limit setting and discipline than non-depressed mothers.4, 8,9 When mothers report more chronic depressive symptoms, their children are more likely to evidence insecure attachment relationships with them, show less advanced language and cognitive development, be less cooperative, and have more difficulty controlling anger and aggression.8, 9 Lower levels of maternal sensitivity and engagement explain some of these findings.

For example, Chinese and Korean toddlers exhibited higher fearful, vigilant and anxious reactions than Australian, Canadian and Italian toddlers in novel stressful situations.7, 8 Chinese children also displayed more committed and internalized control or self - regulation on compliance and delay tasks than North American children in the early years.9, 10,11 Similarly, Cameroonian Nso toddlers displayed more regulated behaviors than Costa Rican toddlers who in turn were more regulated than Greek toddlers, as indicated by their compliance with maternal requests and prohibitions.12

Irwin et al. (2002) found that mothers of «late - talking» toddlers (21 — 31 months) scored significantly higher on the PCDI scale as compared with mothers of control toddlers, supporting the hypothesis that mothers of «late talkers» would experience more parenting stress than mothers of typical toddlers.