The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful, and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old: Revised Edition

If you are only going to read one parenting series let it be this one. My daughter now 2, and having loved Happiest Baby on the Block, I was delighted to run into this new title. It arrived on Monday and by Wednesday I was done reading it. The pages flowed quickly and were a nice evening break and naptime read. Having been a teacher and school principal I find much of the literature about working with toddlers a bit on the frustrating side. Many authors really miss the mark. Dr. Karp hits the mark right on the head. The book is well organized and gives great, easy to follow advice and practical examples. The strategies are well thought out and the advice focuses on helping parents achieve the results they want while protecting the natural curiosity of the child. Parents who follow his strategies will find that not only are their toddlers happier, they as parents will in turn be happier too! Dr.Karp's books are the only ones I recommend/buy for my expecting parent friends. They are a goldmine of great advice.

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This book was a fairly quick and easy read, also very entertaining with funny quotes and cartoons. Why not have fun while making your toddler more co-operative and well-behaved? That's probably the central message of the book. Even with all the jokes and illustrations, the book remains grounded in theory and you will definitely find your mind being stretched and your intellect tested. This combination of fun and learning is partially why I am giving this book five stars. But the entertaining read is not all. I am currently in the process of applying the methods presented in the book and have found them to be working like a charm! By no means it is easy, no it requires practise, and going back to re-read parts of the book time and time again. recently my babysitter has commented on how much calmer and more content my 15month toddler is. I have found it not at all an exaggeration when Dr Karp states a 50-90% reduction in the occurrence of tantrums immediately! The book proposes a different way of looking at your toddlers, along with different methods of interacting with them than you are used to. I have recently been to a local parenting course and have found much of the information similar to that in this book. The problem is that the course missed fine details and was too general. For example I have learned from this book that if you don't apply the methods in the right way with the right level of empathy, like 'Time Out' for example, the results can be damaging. The book gave me a neat way to make sense of all the different ideas presented in the course and to put them all together into a coherent frame-work. Note that this is not a manual with specific solutions to specific problems. It gives you a bigger picture view of how to interact with your toddler in day to day life, with a few specific examples. Accompanying all the theoretical ideas in the book are easy to remember metaphors and stories which you can use as memory guides to help you to put the ideas into practise. e.g. think of your toddler as a little cave-man! In summary of the contents: There are a couple of chapters teaching you how to react to all tantrums (FFR and Toddlerese. ) Then there is a chapter on green light behaviour which teaches you ways to give your toddler encouragement and positive attention when he is happy. (playing the boob, gossip...) Following is a chapter on yellow light behaviours which teaches ways to tame annoying behaviours. (kind ignoring) Then a chapter on red-light behaviours which are behaviours that you want to stop immediately. (time out and consequences. ) Watch this brilliant 3minute video on YouTube to see Dr Karp himself in action! "Happiest Toddler Parents TV - For Mom" [...] I think this book contains invaluable wisdom of how to bring up children that has been lost in our modern isolated and nuclear family cultures. I believe all the advice comes from a place of love and kindness and that's why it works so well. "There are times when parenthood seems like nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you." quote from book

Excelente lectura para nuevos padres.

So far very useful and accurate. I like his approach with children that minimizes the tears and confrontations. It’s not about bending the baby to your will, it’s about growing together. We also have the book Happpiest baby on the block, we might have a special baby but we really have never had any problems with her crying too much and I credit that book for it. We expect to have similar success with this one.