Your Child at Play: One to Two Years: Exploring, Learning, Making Friends, and Pretending

The toddler time, between one and two years old, is an exciting period of self-definition, exploration, and physical and emotional growth for your child. This easy-to-read book, illustrated with more than 200 photos, provides a vivid look at everyday life with a toddler and offers hundreds of creative play activities; expert advice on managing problem situations; and ideas for encouraging creativity, exploration, and language skills. Some of the strategies for daily living included in the book are:

• toilet training
• dressing
• helping around the house
• going out in public
• controlling temper tantrums
• gaining physical prowess
• the timid or fussy explorer
• everyday routines
• helping Mom and Dad
• word power
• making friends
• having fun with toys
• pretending

Marilyn Segal, Ph.D., the noted developmental psychologist, educator, and researcher specializing in early childhood, is the founder and dean emeritus of the Family and School Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The mother of five children and grandmother of thirteen, she has written nineteen books, including the Your Child at Play series and In Time and With Love. She also produced a nine-part, public-service TV series, To Reach a Child.