• Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
  • Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
Guide to Childcraft, The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years

The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years

At about 3, youngsters enter the pre­school years--- truly formative years, marked by intellectual growth, rapidly developing motor skills, much greater social maturity, and emotional richness. Most...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

You and your toddler

Parents of toddlers must act as the grand marshals of a parade. Noisy exhibitions of exuberant fury must somehow be channeled and controlled. Toddlers need rules to fol­low, just as marching bands in...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Common concerns

Toilet training Successful potty training is probably the most significant and potentially stressful task facing a toddler. Knowing exactly what your toddler must learn will increase your...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Health and safety

Accidents One function of parents is to prevent their children from hurting themselves in a dan­gerous world. A toddler's all-embracing habit of getting into everything needs its rightful outlets,...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

The toddler’s education

Toddlers at play are really at work coping with their environment. They think they have complete control, but they learn that many things are immovable (walks, trees, cement). They also learn that...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Typical day

Most toddlers seem to be early risers. It may be because of wet diapers, a full blad­ der, hunger, or just because they want to get on with the joyful business of living. Most children are very...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Parent vs. toddler

Toddlers constantly play games in which they test the physical properties of their environment. They confirm the law of grav­ity, the stickiness of juice, the wetness of water, and the heat of flame....

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Growth

A toddler grows more slowly than a new baby. Most girls at 18 months have acquired about half of their adult height. Boys at age 2 are about halfway there. Body length in­creases in the second year...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Motor abilities and development

Keep in mind that no child can perform a task until the part of the nervous system responsible for its performance is sufficiently developed. Pushing children beyond their physical and mental...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Guide to Childcraft, The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years

Portrait of the toddler

Toddlers "toddle" for only a few weeks. By the time they are 18 months old, they are running, dashing, plummeting headlong into their environment---testing, tasting, claw­ing, groping, eyeballing,...

Manuel
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
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