Preparing your child for preschool

Your child is now moving from infancy towards toddlerhood. During toddlerhood, your child’s physical growth is slow; however, there are remarkable intellectual, emotional and social changes.

As a parent you can play an active role in every stage of your baby’s development. As she grows, her demands and requirements changes. Here’s a recap of what your baby might be doing at this stage, plus some things you can do to support her healthy development along the way.

A weekly indicative diet chart for you to follow.

Making your child to sit at the table during mealtimes at this stage of life is a difficult task indeed. As toddlers are full of energy, they love to run about and even like to do their eating on the run. Apart from creating a mess all over the house, eating while running also increases your child’s risk to choking.

You toddler is not deliberately making a mess when he/she eats. It is just that his/her fine motor skills, which help to hold a spoon are still developing.

Time-out is a discipline technique used by parents in response to undesired behaviour in a child. This method involves immediately isolating the child in a boring place for a specific time whenever he or she misbehaves. The period will allow the child to calm down and reflect on their bad behaviours.

Your child is achieving reading milestones gradually and showing more interest in various books. Reading to your child is now more interactive with your child’s active involvement.

Making potty training work for you and for the baby requires a thorough understanding of the process. You need to understand the right things to do and also what not to do to successfully potty train your baby. Some of these do’s and don’t’s are discussed below.

As your child grows gradually, he or she achieves developmental milestones. As your child has grown up, you can plan to take him or her to park, shopping, party or a friend’s house.