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Toddlers can drive you bonkers…so adorable and fun one minute…so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of “nos” and “don’ts” into “yeses” and hugs…if you know how to speak your toddler’s language. In one of the most useful advances in parenting techniques of the past twenty-five years, Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers, with their immature brains and stormy outbursts, should be thought of not as pint-size people but as pintsize…cavemen. Having noticed that the usual techniques often failed to calm crying toddlers, Dr. Karp discovered that the key to effective communication was to speak to them in their own primitive language. When he did, suddenly he was able to soothe their outbursts almost every time! This amazing success led him to the realization that children between the ages of one and four go through four stages of “evolutionary” growth, each linked to the development of the brain, and each echoing a step in prehistoric humankind’s journey to civilization:• The “Charming Chimp-Child” (12 to 18 months): Wobbles around on two legs, grabs everything in reach, plays a nonstop game of “monkey see monkey do.”• The “Knee-High Neanderthal” (18 to 24 months): Strong-willed, fun-loving, messy, with a vocabulary of about thirty words, the favorites being “no” and “mine.”• The “Clever Caveman” (24 to 36 months): Just beginning to learn how to share, make friends, take turns, and use the potty.• The “Versatile Villager” (36 to 48 months): Loves to tell stories, sing songs and dance, while trying hard to behave.To speak to these children, Dr. Karp has developed two extraordinarily effective techniques:1) The “fast food” rule — restating what your child has said to make sure you got it right;2) The four-step rule — using gesture, repetition, simplicity, and tone to help your irate Stone-Ager be happy again.Once you’ve mastered “toddler-ese,” you will be ready to apply behavioral techniques specific to each stage of your child’s development, such as teaching patience and calm, doing time-outs (and time-ins), praise through “gossiping,” and many other strategies. Then all the major challenges of the toddler years — including separation anxiety, sibling rivalry, toilet training, night fears, sleep problems, picky eating, biting and hitting, medicine taking — can be handled in a way that will make your toddler feel understood. The result: fewer tantrums, less yelling, and, best of all, more happy, loving time for you and your child.
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From: Amazon Posted: Feb 15, 2008 Type: User Review

It Works!!

Yes, speaking toddler-ese to our one year old son works to calm tantrums. It worked the first time I tried it and then didn't seem to be working, so I quit because it's kind of embarrassing to do, especially in front of other adults. I started...
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5.00/5

From: Amazon Posted: Feb 13, 2008 Type: User Review

Must have for Toddler Parents

I bought the book and the DVD. You really should have both. Brilliant insights and supports for even the most educated of parents. I would say you can't live with DVD alone.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 02, 2008 Type: User Review

Finally something that works!!!

This book and a DVD that goes with it are one of the best things that happened to our family. The book is very informative, easy to read/understand and what is most important Dr. Karp's techniques WORK. The book explains his techniques and the...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 18, 2007 Type: User Review

Great strategies to use right away

Very useful book. It was a quick read and an amusing one. The author, as a pediatrician, has great experience with toddlers. I particularly liked his extension of the concept of ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: our toddlers develop following the...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 02, 2007 Type: User Review

Awesome!

Very clear and concise--great methods! Easily adapted to the needs of your child and your lifestyle. A must-have for all parents of toddlers!
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 26, 2007 Type: User Review

Read this book all the way through

I started the book because I had a lot of success with the happiest baby dvd and now my little one is 19 months. When I started this book, honestly, it seemed a little ridiculous, but as I read through and really understood what he was saying...
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 25, 2007 Type: User Review

Best Advice for parents of toddlers

Well written, very informative. Dr. Karp not only gives the best advice I have ever recieved for parenting my toddler, he also teaches you why his advice works. Coming from a mom THIS WORKS!
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 13, 2007 Type: User Review

Excellent!

This book really helped both me and my husband with our toddler. He is very child-friendly and you can see that he loves children. It's a soft but firm way for parnets to help their little one find his/her way.
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From: Amazon Posted: Nov 05, 2007 Type: User Review

Kinda So-So

I agree with those who said that Happiest Baby on the Block was so extremely helpful, and this one only mediocre at best. For us, anyway. After stopping a few pages into this book, I have tried to read more of it on several occasions but haven't...
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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 11, 2007 Type: User Review

Love it

I bought this book because Dr. Karp's book The Happest baby on the Block saved my sanity. His advise really works, and helped me feel as if I had some control, and ways to cope with an unpredictable child. Even if only half of his advise works for...
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