The Toddler Years: a calm plan for potty, tantrums and bedtime

Somewhere around the second birthday, your baby becomes a person with very strong opinions. The Toddler Years gathers what the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, the NHS and the WHO say about ages 2 to 4, and turns it into plans and charts you can use at 7 am with a toddler on your hip.

Inside the ebook

• Potty training: signs of readiness and a step-by-step plan
• Sleep from two to four, naps and night fears
• Picky eating and family meals
• Tantrums and big feelings: what helps, from official sources
• Language and play, and when to ask for advice

Look inside

Real pages of the PDF. Your email address is printed on the cover of your copy.

How it works

1. You pay on Stripe bank card, in one go, no account to create.
2. Your PDF right away the download opens on the confirmation page and the link is emailed to you.
3. A problem? Problem with your file? Email us at administration@lacangel.fr and we fix it (terms).

What is inside

Twelve chapters, a section for your partner and a full bibliography:

1. Inside the toddler brain. What most children do from 2 to 4 (CDC milestones), and the four truths that explain most toddler behavior.
2. Potty training, step by step. The AAP readiness signs, when to wait, the week before, a seven-step plan, fears, rewards and stickers (with the AAP's two emphases shown side by side), avoiding power struggles, and the NHS signs of constipation that mean it is time to see the doctor.
3. Nights, wet beds and setbacks. Night dryness, the NHS do's and don'ts for bedwetting, and why trained children sometimes have accidents again.
4. Tantrums and big feelings. Why they happen, how to prevent the predictable ones, a calm-down sequence for the moment itself, hitting and biting, time-out and time-in described honestly, and why the AAP advises against spanking (Sege and Siegel, Pediatrics, 2018).
5. The positive parenting toolkit. The AAP's healthy discipline strategies, the CDC's "wanted behaviors" approach, and ten everyday tools.
6. Toddler sleep. How many hours (American Academy of Sleep Medicine and WHO), the bedtime routine, the NHS plan for a child who won't go to bed, night and early waking, and moving from a crib to a bed safely.
7. Picky eating and calm mealtimes. The Satter Division of Responsibility, the NHS basics on what to offer, the CDC on drinks, and a "safe plus new" tracker.
8. Talking from 2 to 4. What most children say at each age, how to help, and exactly who to ask if you are worried, in the US and the UK.
9. A new baby in the family. The AAP's advice before and after the birth, a care plan for the big sibling, and how to handle regression and jealousy.
10. Starting nursery or preschool. Separation anxiety, preparation, and the AAP's goodbye ritual.
11. A safe home. A room-by-room checklist: medicines, button batteries, furniture tip-over, windows, water, burns and cords, from the NHS, the CPSC, CAPT and RoSPA.
12. Printable charts. Potty chart, morning and bedtime routines, calm-down plan, feelings faces, family rules, reward chart, special time log.

Plus a section for the partner, with a "who does what" table, and a "When to talk to your pediatrician or health visitor" page. The bibliography lists 43 sources, each opened and checked.

Who it is for

• Your toddler is 18 months to 4 years and every day brings a new battle, about the potty, the shoes or bedtime.
• You are expecting your second baby and want your first child to feel secure.
• Your child is about to start nursery or preschool.
• You and your partner want to say the same thing, in the same words.
• You live in the US or the UK: both systems, phone numbers and words are in every chapter.

What it is, and what it is not

A calm, sourced, practical guide. It contains no medicine and no diagnosis, and it never shames you: no perfect parents here. When something needs a professional, it tells you who to call and what to say.

Instant PDF, with a personalized cover

Your guide arrives as a PDF as soon as your payment goes through, with a personalized cover. Print the charts for the fridge. $29.

Better together

The Toddler Years is part of the Baby & Toddler Pack (the guides for your child, $59) and of The Complete Mamavela Library (every thematic guide, $99). It follows on naturally from Milestones & Play 0-3.