The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers

The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers
by Vicki Iovine

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Author: Vicki Iovine
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-02-01
ISBN: 039952438X
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Perigee Trade

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Book Review: Great book for laughs and another's experience...something all of us mothers could use
Summary: 5 Stars

This is my first Girlfriend's Guides book and I absolutely loved it! It is a fun read, made me literally laugh out loud a few times, and now I am hounding my husband to read it just so he can have a heads up on what to expect over the next couple of years all while gaining a little perspective on what it is like for us mothers. I'm sure that is wishful thinking but one can hope! I had tons of pregnancy books and a few for the first year. While these provided more hands on and specific information, I found this book was still also useful but in a more anecdotal fashion (which made it much easier to read...I actually read this book cover to cover and had a hard time putting it down even when I had some time to catch up on my own sleep during the baby's nap time!). I definitely recommend this book for mothers of new toddlers.

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Summary of The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers

With a combined total of over 300,000 Girlfriends' Guides in print, Vicki Iovine offers the kind of tongue-in-cheek humor and straight-from-the-hip advice that has made her one of today's most popular authorities on child rearing. Now she takes the next step in the Girlfriends series by helping mothers deal with that mysterious, baffling, often adorable and frequently alarming being their baby has become--a toddler.

Beyond child development theory and experts, beyond the "shoulds" and the "don'ts" that guilt-ridden parents constantly hear echoing in their ears, there's Vicki Iovine, America's favorite "girlfriend" and mother-in-the-trenches. In The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers, Iovine's third addition to her parenting panoply (The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy and The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood) Iovine focuses, for the first time, more on the child than on the mother. (Toddlers always get all the attention, don't they?) Iovine is wise, and not just because she's read all the current parenting literature (she has) or heard it from her famous mythical "girlfriends." Iovine knows what she's talking about because she has four young children and she's been through it all. In her ongoing vision of parenting, humor and a network of friends play an important role, bribery has its place, discipline is sensible and loving, and advice is grounded in the practical rather than the theoretical. From "Eating (or Not)" to "Discipline" to "The Comfort Zone" (Binkies, Bankies, Loveys and Thumbs) to Potty Training ("What's the Big Rush?") to "Sleepy Time" to "Fashion" (yes, it's an issue for toddlers), Iovine continues her mission to inform the contemporary parent, to tell the truth, to boldly go where many child development experts have gone before, and to keep her readers laughing while she does it. --Ericka Lutz

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