What to Expect the Toddler Years (4 page)

Nurturing the Scientist in Your Toddler

Signs of the Superchild Syndrome

WHAT IT’S IMPORTANT FOR YOUR TODDLER TO KNOW: The Importance of Being Honest

What About Those Little White Lies?

P
ART TWO
: T
ODDLER
C
ARE
, H
EALTH, AND
S
AFETY

C
HAPTER
S
EVENTEEN
: T
ODDLER
C
ARE
P
RIMER

FROM SKIN CARE TO DRESSING TIPS

Caring for Your Toddler’s Skin

Take a Good Look at Your Toddler’s Skin

At Greater Risk Under the Sun

Decoding SPFs

The Most Common Toddler Skin Problems

Types of Diaper Rash

Caring for Your Toddler’s Hair

Gummy Hair

Most Common Toddler Hair/Scalp Problems

Caring for Your Toddler’s Nails

Caring for Your Toddler’s Eyes

Spotting Vision Problems

Most Common Vision Problems in Toddlers

Checking Your Toddler’s Eyes

If Your Toddler Needs Glasses

Caring for Your Toddler’s Ears and Hearing

What’s Too Loud?

Pierced Ears

Signs of a Hearing Problem

Caring for Your Toddler’s Teeth

Fluorides for Fighting Decay

Most Common Teeth and Mouth Problems

Caring for Your Little Girl’s Genitals

Most Common Genital Problems in Little Girls

Caring for Your Little Boy’s Genitals

Most Common Genital Problems in Little Boys

The In-Again, Out-Again Testicle

Dressing Your Toddler

Tricks of the Dressing Trade

C
HAPTER
E
IGHTEEN
: F
EEDING
Y
OUR
T
ODDLER

THE TODDLER DIET

The Toddler Diet Nine Basic Principles

White Whole Wheat?

The Frosting on the Flakes

Introducing the Toddler Diet Daily Dozen

Variety Is More Than the Spice of Life

Fat Sense

Milk Measures

Juice Facts

WEIGHTY CONCERNS: Your Toddler’s Growth

The Tubby Toddler

Sample Toddler Menu

The Broccoli Connection

The Thin Toddler

Maybe They Really Do Grow Overnight

Slow Growth

How Does Your Toddler Grow?

TACTICS FOR THE TABLE

Finessing the Finicky Eater

Fast Food—Fun or Folly?

Gratifying a Snack Attack

Fun with Food

A Limited Dietary Repertoire

Rejection of a Favorite Food

A Vegetarian Diet

Dairy Protein Choices for Toddlers

Vegetarian Protein Choices for Toddlers

SAFE FOOD, SAFE WATER

Monitoring Food Safety—at Home and Away

Dining Out With a Toddler

The Cutting Board Dilemma

Monitoring Chemical Consumption

Monitoring Cooking, Serving, and Storage Utensils

Choking Risks

Monitoring Water Safety

C
HAPTER
N
INETEEN
: A
LL
A
BOUT
T
OILET
L
EARNING

READY?

GET SET ...

Potty Patience, Please

GO ...

The Do’s of Toddler Toilet Learning

Training Pants

The Don’ts of Toddler Toilet Learning

WHEN ACCIDENTS HAPPEN

Why Accidents Happen

When an Older Child Resists

’
Tis the Season?

WHAT YOU MAY BE WONDERING ABOUT

Switching to Training Pants

Diaper Rejection

Hygiene Hype

Wiping Wrangles

Fear of Flushing

When to Take a Stand

The Movable Potty Chair

A Girl Who Wants to Stand

Fascination with Stool

Switching to the Toilet

A New Diaper Rash at Night

A Diaper for Bowel Movements

Toilet Learning and Preschool

Staying Dry at Night

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
: K
EEPING
Y
OUR
T
ODDLER
H
EALTHY

IMMUNIZATION: Preventing Major Communicable Diseases

Recommended Immunizations

When to Call the Doctor After an Immunization

Don’t Miss an Opportunity

AAP Immunization Recommendations

Immunization Myths—Dispelled

Getting Shots: Your Toddler’s Tears and Fears

When Your Child Is Immunized

THE DOCTOR AND THE TODDLER

The Parent-Physician Partnership

The Role of the Pediatric Nurse-Practitioner

When to Call the Doctor

Looking for Dr. Right

Before You Call the Doctor

Appendicitis Warnings

Parent’s Intuition

ALL ABOUT FEVER

Know Your Toddler

Taking Your Toddler’s Temperature

Reading the Thermometer

Evaluating a Fever

Febrile Convulsions

Treating a Fever

Dosages for Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen

Typical Body Temperatures

CARING FOR A SICK TODDLER

At Home

In the Hospital

WHEN MEDICATION IS NEEDED

What You Should Know

Herbal Remedies

Giving Medicine Safely

Out-of-Date Medications

Helping the Medicine Go Down

Aspirin or Non-Aspirin?

THE MOST COMMON TODDLER HEALTH PROBLEMS

Common Cold (Upper Respiratory Infection, or URI)

Constipation

Nose Blowing

Croup (Laryngotracheobronchitis, or LTB)

Diarrhea, with or without Vomiting

Toddler Tummy

Ear Infection

Influenza (Flu)

Signs of Dehydration

Otitis Media (Middle-Ear Inflammation)

Preventing the Spread of Illness

Tubes for Toddlers

Otitis Media with Effusion, or Serous Otitis Media

Sinusitis

Sore Throat

Tonsils and Adenoids: Taking Them Out Is No Longer In

One Picture is Worth ...

Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

Treating Your Toddler’s Symptoms

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-O
NE
: K
EEPING
Y
OUR
T
ODDLER
S
AFE

Change Your Ways

Change Your Toddler

Dressing for Safety

Change Your Toddler’s Surroundings

Lead Can Lead to Trouble

Food for Thought

Safe Heights

No Gun Is a Safe Gun

Indoor Pest Control: Sorry for Pests, Still Safe for Toddlers

Putting Worry in Perspective

Poison Control

JPMA Certified Safe for Kids

Designed for Safety

No Swinging

A Safe Place to Play

Dress for It

Don’t Let the Bugs Bite

Let It Snow

The Latch System

Safe Art

Red Light Greenery

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-T
WO
: T
REATING
T
ODDLER
I
NJURIES

FIRST AID FOR THE TODDLER

Abdominal Injuries

Bites

Bleeding

Bleeding, Internal

Broken Bones or Fractures

Bruises, Skin

Burns and Scalds

Cat Bites/Scratches

Chemical Burns

Choking

Cold Injuries

Convulsions

Cuts

Dislocations

Dog Bites

Drowning

Ear Injuries

Electric Shock

Eye Injuries

Fainting

Finger and Toe Injuries

Foreign Objects

Fractures

Frostbite

Head Injuries

Heat Illness

Hyperthermia

Hypothermia

Insect Bites

Lip, Split or Cut

Mouth Injuries

Nose Injuries

Poisoning

Poison Guidelines You Shold Know

Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac

Puncture Wounds

Scalds

Scrapes

Seizures

Stocking the Medicine Chest

Severed Limb or Digit

Shock

Skin Wounds

Making a Boo-Boo Better

Bandaging a Boo-Boo

Tender Loving Care

Snake Bites

Sprains

Sunburn

Swallowed Foreign Bodies

Teeth Injuries

Toe Injuries

Tongue Injuries

FIRST AID FOR TODDLERS: CHOKING AND BREATHING EMERGENCIES

Check, Call, Care, and A-B-C

Rescue Breathing for Toddlers

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): Children Over One Year

FIRST AID FOR A CHOKING TODDLER

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-T
HREE
: Y
OUR
S
PECIAL
-N
EEDS
C
HILD

Helping Your Special-Needs Child

Free Testing

Who Can Help?

Living With and Loving Your Special Child

It’s the Law

Residential Care

Home Care

SOME CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) and HIV Infection

Allergy

Helping the Healthy Sibling

Life-Threatening Allergies

When the Food-Allergic Toddler Steps Out

Asthma

Autism

Cancer

Celiac Disease

Cerebral Palsy (CP)

Cystic Fibrosis (CF)

Diabetes Mellitus

Down Syndrome

Epilepsy

Fragile X Syndrome

Hearing Impairment

Hearing Tests

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA)

Mental Retardation

Muscular Dystrophy (Duchenne Type)

Phenylketonuria (PKU)

Sickle-Cell Disease

Thalassemias

The Very-Low-Birth-Weight Baby as a Toddler

Visual Impairment—Legal Blindness

P
ART THREE
: T
HE
T
ODDLER IN THE
F
AMILY

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-Four: T
HE
T
ODDLER AS
S
IBLING

WHAT YOU MAY BE WONDERING ABOUT

Sibling Rivalry

Even-Steven

Adoring Toddler, Intolerant Sibling

Adoring Sib, Intolerant Toddler

Siblings 101

Sibling Slugfests

Stepping into a Stepfamily

Two Children—Two Bedtimes?

Toy Safety Among Siblings

Shortchanging Number Two

Sharing a Room

A Too-Good-to-Be-True Sib

A Backsliding Sib

The Eager Little Helper

Differences in Siblings

Play It Safe

Attention-Seeking Behavior

Decorating Dilemma

C
HAPTER
T
WENTY
-F
IVE
: P
ARENTING THE
T
ODDLER

WHAT YOU MAY BE WONDERING ABOUT

Your Anger

Out-of-Control Hitting

Your Depression

Walk a Yard in Your Toddler’s Shoes

Keeping Your Cool

Crying in Front of Your Toddler

One-on-One for Fun

Parental Disagreement

Sharing the Load

Getting Sick

Differing Views on Parenting

Back Relief

Surviving with Two Under Two

Time for Yourself

Guilt About Working

Homesickness

Misgivings About Staying Home

The Full-Time Father