Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler

Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years - No Time Outs Needed

By: Jamie Glowacki

Narrated by: Jamie Glowacki

Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the best-selling Oh Crap! Potty Training.

Toddlers - commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old - can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as bad behavior is in fact just curious behavior. Toddlerdom is the age of individuation, seeking control, and above all, learning how the world works. But this misunderstanding between parents and child can lead to power struggles, tantrums, and even diminished growth and creativity.

The recent push of early intellectualism coupled with a desire to “make childhood magical” has created a strange paradox - we have three-year-olds with math and Mandarin tutors who don’t know how to dress themselves and are sitting in their own poop. We are pushing the toddler mind beyond its limit but simultaneously keeping them far below their own natural capabilities.

In the frank, funny, and totally authentic Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler, social worker Jamie Glowacki helps parents work through what she considers the five essential components of raising toddlers:

• Engaging the toddler mind
• Working with the toddler body
• Understanding and dealing with the toddler behavior
• Creating a good toddler environment
• You, the parent

Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler is about doing more with less - and bringing real childhood back from the brink of overscheduled, overstimulated helicopter parenting. With her signature down-and-dirty friend-to-friend advice, Jamie is here to help you experience the joy of parenting again and giving your child - and yourself - the freedom to let them grow at their own pace and become who they are.

©2019 Jamie Glowacki (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

One of my favorite toddler books

I have read a few and found this to be the most reasonable and practical.

Required Reading

Don’t wait until they turn two or three. Read this as soon as you can, and then revisit. And read other books too… there is no one and only golden source, but this should certainly be part of your new parent reading list.

You got this!

WOW! This book hit my parenting sweet spot - conscious, funny, actionable, REAL! I loved the organization of the book into two parts - addressing the parent side first before the kid side, adjusting our own "stuff" where we really have the power to change. So validating to have a book acknowledge that parents and kids both need their needs met. Excellent author narration - finishing the book I felt like after having coffee with an awesome friend - inspired and empowered.

very informative

this really helped open up my perspective on child rearing. I can also use this for my teenagers.

great advice

Jamie offers great advice. enjoyed Oh Crap Potty Training and this didn't disappoint. great narration from the author.