Reddit reviews How Toddlers Thrive: What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2-5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success
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My two favorites have been:
Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina
How Toddlers Thrive by Tovah P. Klein
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I listened to both via audiobook, narrated by the authors.
Medina is a neuroscientist and totally geeks out about the long term studies and advice that can be pulled based on observable and repeatable outcomes.
Klein runs a research facility that doubles as a daycare/preschool connected with a university that studies early childhood behaviors.
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Both are clearly experts in their field, and their advice is rather similar, but both bring a fun perspective. They're both parents as well, and very clearly love their kids as well as put their money where their mouth is!
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We still haven't sleep trained my son (who is now almost 18 months old) since cosleeping works for us. Some nights are harder than others, and I'm starting to realize I can expect more from him. I'm finally trying saying "it is bedtime, so you can stay awake, but you have to lie in bed." To get to this point, I've reminded myself that the nights when we want to quit are the same nights that would be hard even if he were sleep-trained
To reply to the prompt, the main challenge has been realizing I was RBN after raising my son. Dealing with processing everything, deciding to go NC with my Ndad, trying to set boundaries with my n?mom, all while trying to raise my son and working part time has been a lot. I haven't gotten as much work done on my PhD this year as I wanted as I've found myself having to use daycare time just to process everything.
What I haven't found hard? Actually being a caring responsive mother. It turns out seeing things from my son's point of view isn't really all that hard when you actually want to do so.
Also, I will write a book review once I finish reading it, but "How Toddlers Thrive" is pretty much the best parenting book ever as an ACON. It's full of examples of how to say things to your child (like validating their feelings), which are a bit painful to realize I never heard growing up. I feel like I'm both learning how to be a better mom, and re-parenting myself when I make the time to read it.