The Social Toddler

Toddlers! Don’t we just love them. The toddler years are such a special time and alongside the joy they bring us, they can and often do, drive us nuts. There are many books out there claiming to have all the answers to toddlers and their sometimes odd behaviour. This book is different.

The Social Toddler has no magic wand, it simply explains why toddlers behave the way they do. Imagine how much they have accomplished from birth (a couple of years previously) to where they are now. Toddler brains are growing rapidly. They respond to what they see, hear, feel and touch. Everything is new - yet we expect them to understand our rules as clearly as we do. And very few of us have the same rules. The other thing is toddler brains are not yet developed to understand much of what we expect of them. This is why it is so easy to get into conflict.

The Social Toddler explains carefully and simply with hundreds of step by step photos how toddler brains develop and what this is like for them. So far as we know, this is the first time a book has shown this outside of the academic world. None of the book is crackpot theory, or current tricks to get your toddler to ‘behave’. In fact, the book makes no recommendations - how can any book cover all the different cultures, likes and preferences we all have? What the book does do brilliantly well is explain in everyday language how toddlers view their ever expanding world and how they respond to it. Toddlers are not naughty, or wilful they are fascinated by everything around them and trying to make sense of it all. How we respond to this has a big impact on how they develop into children and adults, how they perform at school, make friends and cope with life's ups and downs.