I have a friend who's son is a few weeks older than my dd (17 months). We get together regularly for playdates. She is alot like I was when my ds (now nearly 6) was that age. She's kind of crunchy, open to new ideas but uneducated in GD and AP. We've skirted the issue a few times but I don't know here that well and don't want to critisize her parenting as all in all she is doing a good job. Her ds is starting to enter that stage where everything is a chalange though and she's not sure how to handle it. I'm confident she would never spank, but I saw her give him a time out today (it lasted about 30 sec.) Now I'm not compleatly against timeouts, I know many hear would disagree but I don't think even the "experts" who recomend time outs recomend them for children that young.
So I'm wondering if anyone can recomend for me a good web page about toddler developmentaly appropriate behaviour that I can direct her to. Or maybe a book, but both our budgets are tight and our library dosn't have a very good selection.
So I'm wondering if anyone can recomend for me a good web page about toddler developmentaly appropriate behaviour that I can direct her to. Or maybe a book, but both our budgets are tight and our library dosn't have a very good selection.
