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Your 20-month-old whacks another child on the head with a plastic shovel and grabs the pail out of his hands. Or your 2-year-old watches as you deposit two scoopfuls of ice cream into his small plastic bowl, then two equal-size scoops into a larger bowl for his sister. He wails, “I didn’t get as much!” What do you do and why did this happen?
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Stop the Health Food Madness Before We Harm the Children
Talking less about food helps children eat better & avoid obesity
Published by Tovah Klein Ph.D., Jun 05, 2014 in Our Thriving Children
Excerpt from article.
When does too much focus on a good thing backfire? When we are trying to instill healthy eating habits in children. Our national obsession with good (healthy) and bad (junk) food translates into an unnatural obsession with food. With skyrocketing obesity rates, even amongst children, could there ever be too much talk of healthy eating? Research shows that for growing children the answer is a resounding yes. Back off, say less, eat well yourself and children are more likely to develop healthy eating habits.
From healthy eating, organic, sustainable farming, balanced diets and food pyramids to banning bake sales at school all the way to the realistic concerns about fast food, junk food, sugar and processed food, discussion of food fills the air that children breathe. Rather than creating good eating, this food over-focus has potentially serious negative consequences over a lifetime. Here’s why, and what parents (and other adults involved with children) can do instead to ensure healthy diets and eating habits. >>Read more
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Top Mistakes Parents Make With Their Kids
Tovah P. Klein, “The Toddler Whisperer”, on Good Morning America offering advice on how to best raise your children.
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Toddlers and Tantrums
What’s Going on Inside the Toddler Brain
From The Leonard Lopate Show
Why are toddlers so prone to tantrums? Tovah say, “They have a lot of new emotions – so anger, frustration, disappointment, fear really come into play as they start to separate. But they don’t – literally – have the brain mechanisms to control those. So they get upset, they get upset in the moment.”
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Bad Habits to Watch for in Toddlers
From mom.me
If your toddler is hitting his siblings, overeating or constantly throwing tantrums, he could be exhibiting early symptoms of behavioral problems—or he could be completely normal. Distinguishing between regular childhood misbehavior and acts that could be cause for greater concern is best left to the experts, but parents can help by avoiding any alarmism and keeping a close eye on their children for any unusual or excessive acting out, says Tovah Klein, director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development.
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Why Time-Outs Are Hurting Your Kid
From The Stir at cafemom.com
Got a “time-out” chair in your home? You might want to put it back in the playroom. While time-outs were the discipline method du jour for parents in the ’90s, they’ve fallen out of favor with today’s more progressive child behavior experts. “Time-outs were originally a way for kids to take a break, think about what they did, maybe even have remorse for it, and settle down and return,” says Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D.
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3 Tips for Your Toddler Parenting Toolbook
Advice from Tovah P. Klein
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The effects of living in a digital world on young children
A conversation with Dr. Tovah P. Klein from edu blog at scholastic.com
We don’t know, but we have lots of anecdotal evidence to guide us. The biggest concerns that developmental psychologists like me have are centered around interaction and the ability to read social cues. One of the things we know that young children get from the back-and-forth with adults, and then with other children, is how to read social cues.
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