On Becoming Baby Wise: Book II Parenting Your Pretoddler Five to Fifteen Months

It's reality-check time! You are at least five months into your tour of parenting duty by now.

The complexity of child-training has begun to come into focus.

You have learned that as your baby matures both constant and variable factors continually influence his or her development.

What behaviors can and should you expect from your pretoddler? Feeding time for your pretoddler, for example, is now more than a response controlled by a sucking reflex.

For the pretoddler, mealtime is part of a very complex, conscious interaction between what the child does and what his parents expect him to do.