Children between the ages one and three years are called toddlers 1 Physical Needs 2 Feeding Toddlers graduate from bottle and baby foods to a cup and table foods foods prepared for the entire family ID: 248053
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Providing for the Toddler’s Developmental Needs
Children between the ages one and three years are called toddlers.
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Physical Needs
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Feeding
Toddlers graduate from bottle and baby foods to a cup and table foods (foods prepared for the entire family
.)
Toddlers often join the family for meals instead of eating at other times.
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Toddler Eating Style
Toddlers are very picky eaters.
It is normal for toddlers to have odd eating habits.
They may skip a meal or two and then eat like they are starved a few hours later.
Typically don’t like to sit down to eat.
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Self-Feeding
When toddlers feed themselves, they are working on improving their fine-motor skills. Playing with food-dropping it on the floor, smearing it around, etc is all part of self-feeding.
Parents need to remember they are not doing this to be naughty, but to learn about the color, texture, and qualities of food.
This helps toddlers become independent and boosts their self-esteem.
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Providing for Toddler’s Food Needs
Empty calories should be avoided, feeding primarily nutritious foods.
Food allergy: an abnormal response to a food that is triggered by the body’s immune system.
Milk, eggs, peanuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, soybeans, and tree nuts
Registered dietitians: Specially trained in nutrition and diet
Can help plan toddler’s diet
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Providing the Needs of 1-2 Year Olds
When infants weight about 15 lbs, they begin to need more nutrition than is provided by breast milk and formula.
Solids are called complementary foods because they provide the nutrients needed in addition to milk.
Complementary foods should provide about 50% of the calories consumed by toddlers.
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Needs of 1-2 Year Olds Cont…
From 12-24 months, toddlers should continue to breast feed or start drinking whole cow’s milk.
Reduced fat milk is not recommended until after 2 years of age.
Toddlers should not be given fruit juices or drinks in place of milk.
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Meeting Nutritional Needs of Older Toddlers
2-3 year olds can follow the myplate
food guide to determine what their nutritional needs are.
The USDA recommends offering smaller serving sizes to 2 and 3 year olds.
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Preventing Food Problems
Toddlers should sit or stand still while eating to prevent choking.Parents should avoid feeding toddlers popcorn, grapes, raisins, nuts, spoonfuls of peanut butter, hot dogs, small/hard candies, and chucks of raw carrots.
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Clothing: Choosing Garments
Clothes that are too tight restrict movement.Some
companies
size toddler
clothes
in Small, Medium, and Large, while others use 18 mo. (1T), 24 mo. (2T), 3T, 4T, and 5T.
Clothing should be comfortable, offer growth features, durable, attractive, and easy to launder.
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Clothing: Choosing Garments Cont…
Some clothes make self-dressing and undressing easier for toddlers.
Toddlers are far better at undressing themselves.
This is important in potty training, to avoid accidents.
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Fitting Shoes
Shoes that fit improperly can cause permanent damage to the child’s feet.
Toddlers out-grow a shoe size about every 3-4 months.
Toddlers have flat feet, because the arch doesn’t develop until around 3 years old.
Going barefoot or stocking-footed helps with the development of the arch.
Shoes that fit properly have ½ inch of space between large toe and shoe when toddler is standing.
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Rest and Sleep
Toddlers sleep and nap less than babies.
Toddlers are very likely to resist rest and sleep, even when they are tired.
Have a definite hour for bedtime
Set a bedtime ritual or routine
Take a warm bath, drink of water, story, song, hug
If a toddler doesn’t want to sleep, tell them they just need to rest, they will accept this better.
If a toddler is scared, tell them where you’ll be, and that you’ll check in on them.
If a toddler wakes up with a nightmare, don’t ask them to tell you about it, listen if they want to tell you, but don’t dwell on it.
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Hygiene
Toddlers usually love baths, but never leave one unattended in the bath tub.Toddlers can learn while playing in the tub:
Some toys float/sink
Water can be held in a cupped hand for a bit
Water makes all things wet
The bottom of the tub can be seen through water
Soap makes bubbles
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Dental Care
Dentists recommend a first dental checkup by 2 years of age.
At 18 months, a caregiver should start brushing
toddler’s
teeth.
Around 30 months, toddlers can begin to help brush his/her teeth.
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Toilet Learning
Some parents try potty-training before the age of one, others have let the toddlers decide when they want to become potty trained.
Experts know for sure…
The timing varies from toddler to toddler.
Many toddlers don’t complete the process quickly
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Procedure for Toilet Learning
Many toddlers are ready to start toilet training around the age 2.
At
age 3 a regression
in desire to learn how to potty train takes place.
Children should not start while there is family or child stress.
28 months is the average age for complete day control.
Parents can help children by telling them when they are eliminating to make them aware of it.
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When the Toddler is Ready
Caregivers should get toddlers a child-sized potty.
Potty rings are also made to use in regular toilet seats.
These are more sanitary
Step stools may
be
needed to help child get onto large toilet.
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Once Toilet Learning Begins
Adults must remind children to use the toilet.
Take toddlers to the toilet at set times.
Before and after meals and sleep times, before getting in the car, etc.
Diapers should be used during the night, and in long car rides.
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Accidents
Training pants: made of disposable diaper material, pants with a multi-layered cotton fabric crotch, or specially designed ones for wading or swimming pool use
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Indoor and Outdoor Spaces
Toddlers need both indoor and outdoor play areas.
They also need play areas that are away from sleep areas to keep them from getting distracted while trying to rest and sleep.
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Intellectual Needs
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Learning Through Activities
Bathing and dressing provide the means for language, perceptual, health, and motor learning.
Helping with household tasks develops spatial concepts (putting laundry in basket)
Vocabulary increases as toddlers learn the names of common objects found in the home and yard.
Science becomes part of everyday life as toddlers see how the vacuum cleaner picks up dirt, how air dries clothes, and how heat makes dough change into cookies
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Learning Through Play
Playing lets toddlers check and recheck their learnings
.
They may fill a bucket with the same toys many times to see how many can fit each time.
Adults should let toddlers play on their own, stepping in only when toddler needs help or they show desire in having the adult join in play.
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Sensory Stimulation Activities
Senses help toddlers learn about qualities of objects.
Using senses helps toddlers form concepts about objects.
They learn that when peeled, oranges are round, orange colored, sweet smelling, sweet tasting, and juicy (wet).
Adults can enrich what toddlers learning by when they hear a sound say, “Do you hear that? I hear a bird. Do you hear it too?”
Or when cooking, ask, “What smells so good?”
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Problem-Solving Activities
Toddlers can solve many problems by testing their ideas.Problem solving games involve motor actions
Finding hidden objects, watching how objects move, etc.
Simple puzzles are good problem-solving activities as well.
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Motor Activities
Toys that can be pushed with the feet or pedaled also help develop gross-motor skills.
Interlocking blocks helps develop fine-motor skills while sparking creativity.
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Language Activities: Toddlers Need to Hear Language
Adults should talk during games to improve toddlers’ skills.
As adults do things, they should say what they are doing and what the toddler is doing.
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Adults can begin talking in a conversational manner even before the child can respond verbally:
Adult: “Aren’t you hungry?”
Pause about half a second.
Imagined response from toddler “yes.”
Pause about half a second.
Adult: “Surely you are. Lunch smells good, doesn’t it?”
Pause about half a second.
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Language Activities: Toddlers Need to Hear Language
Adults should talk to toddlers using statements, questions, and exclamations that help toddlers hear the rise and fall of voices.
Adults should also teach different sounds to toddlers.
Like
rrrr
for the sound of a siren.
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Language Activities: Clear and Simple Speech
Adults need to make sure they do not talk beneath the child’s level, or this will hinder their development of language skills.
Examples of ways to model language:
Toddler: “My wed (red)
sooes
(shoes).”
Adult: “Yes, these are your pretty red shoes.”
Toddler: “I singed a song.”
Adult: “You sang a song about a rainy day.”
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Language Activities: Clear and Simple Speech
Toddlers will repeat everything they hear.
If a toddler uses an inappropriate word, simply say, “These are not words we use here.”
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Choosing Books for Toddlers
Reading books and saying poems and rhymes help toddlers develop language.When choosing books:
Pictures must be colorful and simple
Subjects should be simple
Books should be durable
Pages should be easy for the toddler to turn and keep open
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How Toddlers Read
Toddlers usually don’t want to sit still to look at a book, but they may glance at it every now and then.
They tend to enjoy stories that only have a short sentence on each page with pictures.
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Reading to Toddlers
Many enjoy the same story read repeatedly.This helps child feel secure because they begin to know what will happen next in the story.
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Singing with Toddlers
Songs that act out meanings of words are helpful to toddlers.Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush lets toddlers sing and act out lines such as, “This is the way we eat our soup,” and “this is the way we wash our hands.”
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Social-Emotional Needs
Toddlers are in the transitional stage: passing from one stage to another. They go back and forth between wanting to be totally independent and wanting to be totally dependent.
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Discipline
Toddlers do not have self-restraintThey cannot always control themselves
They do not know all the rules of acceptable behavior.
Parents need to set limit for their toddlers to keep them safe and show them how to become more socially acceptable.
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Balancing Self-Assertion and Obedience
Self-assertion: doing as one chooses
Obedience: acting within the limits set by others
Adults must help toddlers balance these two
Best way to do this is to meet the toddlers’ needs.
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Toddlers Need to Feel Loved
Toddlers sense love that is shown to them physically and directly.They respond to cuddling, loving words, etc.
They do not respond to indirect ways, such has having cooked meals or clean clothes.
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Toddlers Want to Feel Lovable
When toddlers are always made to feel they are “bad,” they may grow to dislike themselves.
Adults should not call children bad, selfish, naughty, or mean.
Harsh punishment may cause toddlers to feel they are bad, too.
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Toddlers Need Respect
Respecting toddlers helps them like themselves.
It also
helps children build relationships with others.
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Toddlers need Understanding and Patient Guidance
Toddlers need some freedom.
Adults can let toddlers choose between two green vegetables for lunch.
A toddler may also choose between self-control and adult-control
The adult may say, “You may color on the paper, or I’ll have to put the crayons away.”
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Toddlers Need Consistency in Discipline
Consistency helps people feel secure.
Toddlers may need flexible rules when they are ill or when other problems occur.
Discipline changes as children grow.
Toddlers have both good and bad days. When limits are set and discipline is firm, yet kind, toddlers will begin to have more good days than bad.
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Guidance: Helping Toddlers Control Their Emotions
Understanding toddlers’ emotions is the first step in helping toddlers control them.
Problems with toddlers often include contrariness, temper tantrums, and fears and anxieties.
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Contrariness
Contrariness: opposing adults and toddlers.
They replace yes with no, even when yes is what they really mean
By 18 months, many toddlers begin to do this
The simplest way to reduce this is to let the toddler make some choices (as long as the result will not be harmful)
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Telling toddler about upcoming events in advance.
“Lunch will be in a few minutes”Saying no is a way for toddlers to deal with sudden change.
Playing pretend games
If a toddler doesn’t want to eat lunch, turn it into a game of “I’m going to wash my hands before you do” or if a toddler is resisting a nap, “I’ll race you to your bedroom”
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Temper Tantrums
Toddlers who are lively, under stress, hungry, and/or cannot talk are prone to temper tantrums.
Ways to avoid:
Make requests in a pleasant tone of voice
Have enough toys or ideas to prevent boredom
Tantrums are a form of release for the child, so allow it to happen.
Tantrums are also a way for the toddler to get attention-they may follow adult around house having tantrums in every room.
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Temper Tantrums: Comforting the Child
Adults should acknowledge toddler’s feelings and offer comfort.
Do not use spanking to punish tantrums because it is modeling that behavior for the toddler.
Adult calmness serves as a model for children of ways to deal with anger.
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Fears and Anxiety
Adults should show differences between real and pretend things.Explain that dreams aren’t real.
Giving toddlers security also reduces fear:
Night-lights, toys in bed, and familiar caregivers add to security.
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Overcoming Fear and Anxiety
To overcome their fears and anxieties, toddlers need to talk about their fear in a safe way.
If a toddler is scared of dogs, the adult might talk about dogs, then later read the child a book about dogs. Then after more time, the child might stand close to a friendly dog.
Toddlers should be praised for small steps toward overcoming their fears.
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Planning Self-Awareness Activities
Ways to enhance toddler’s self-awareness could be placing pictures of the toddler on the refrigerator, keeping a photo album of the child’s early years, measuring the child’s height periodically, etc.
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Developmental Delays
Both gross and fine motor skills, along with language are used to judge any developmental delays.
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