Term
| Ages 12 to 18 months(behavior) |
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Definition
| Prepare parents for expected behavioral changes of toddlers, espeically negativism and ritualism |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (feeding) |
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Definition
| Assess present feeding habits and encourage gradual weaning from bottle and increased intake of solid food. |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months(feeding changes) |
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Definition
| Stress expected feeding changes of physiologic anorexia, food fads, and strong taste preferences, need for scheduled routine at mealtimes, inability to sit through an entire meal, and lack of table manners. |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (sleep) |
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Definition
| Assess sleep patterns at night, particularly habit of bedtime bottle, which is a major cause of early childhood caries, and procrastination behavors that delay hour of sleep. |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (home/vehicle) |
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Definition
| Prepare parents for potential dangers of the home and motor vehicle enviroment, particularly motot vehicle injuries, drowning, accidental poisoning, and falling injuries; give appropriate suggestions for safeproofing the home |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (discipline) |
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Definition
| Discuss need for firm but gentle disciple and ways to deal with negativism and temper tantrums; stress positive benefits of appropriate discipline. |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (separations) |
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Definition
| Emphasize importance for both child and parents of brief, periodic separations. |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (toys) |
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Definition
| Discuss the toys that use developing gross and fine motor, language, cognitive, and social skills. |
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| Ages 12 to 18 months (dental) |
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Definition
| Emphasize need for dental supervision, types of basic dental hygience at home, and food habits that predispose to caries; stress importance of supplemental fluoride. |
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Term
| Ages 18 to 24 months (play) |
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Definition
| Stres importance of peer companionship in play |
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| Ages 18 to 24 months (sibling) |
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Definition
| Explore need for preparation for additional sibling; stress importance of preparing child for new experiences |
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| Ages 18 to 24 months (behavior) |
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Definition
| Discuss present discipline methods, their effectiveness, and parent's feelings about child's negativism; stress that negativism is important aspect of developing self-assertion and independence and is not a sign of spoiling. |
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| Ages 18 to 24 months (potty training) |
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Definition
| Discuss signs of readiness for toilet training; emphasize importance of waiting for physical and psychologic readiness. |
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| Ages 18 to 24 months (fear) |
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Definition
| Discuss development of fears, such as darkness or load noises, and of habits, such as security blanket or thumb sucking; stress normalcy of these transient behaviors. |
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| Ages 18 to 24 months (stress) |
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Definition
| Prepare parents for signs of regession in times of stress. |
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| Ages 18 to 24 months (separation) |
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Definition
| Prepare parents for signs of regression in time of stress. |
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Term
| Ages 18 to 24 months (parents express) |
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Definition
| Allow parents to express their feelings of weariness, frustration, and exasperation; be aware that it is often difficult to love toddlers at times when they are not asleep. |
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Term
| Ages 18 to 24 months (look forward to next year) |
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Definition
| Point out some of the expected changes of the next year, such as longer attention span, somewhat less negativism, and increase concern for pleasing others. |
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| Ages 24 to 36 months(play) |
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Definition
| Discuss importance ofimitation and domestic mimicry and need to include child in activites. |
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| Ages 24 to 36 months (toilet) |
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Definition
| Discess approaches toward toilet training, particularly realistic expections and attitude toward accidents. |
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| Ages 24 to 36 months (social) |
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Definition
| Stress uniqueness of toddler's thought processes, especially through their use of language, poor understanding of time, causal relationships in terms of proximity of events, and inability to see events from another's perspective. |
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| Ages 24 to 36 months (discipline) |
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Definition
| Stress that discipline still must be structured and concrete and that relying solely on verbal reasoning and explanation leads to injuries, confusion, and misunderstanding. |
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| Ages 24 to 36 months (school) |
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Definition
| Discuss investigation of preschool or daycare center toward conpletion of second year. |
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