Nurturing Toddler Development

Chapter 15: Nurturing Toddlers
Development and Care

No longer an infant, a child in the toddler
stage is eager to absorb all the information
she can as she gains independence.
toddler
A child between the ages of ___ and ____ months.
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Physical Development
• Balance improves by
__months.
• Appetites decrease.
• Teeth come in rapidly
between __ and ___
months.
• Body proportions
change.

Physical Development
?
Skills that allow children to help take care of
their personal needs.

?
Toddlers:
• learn by doing and by using their senses.

• continue to grow intellectually through
sensorimotor development.
• need freedom and time to explore a safe
environment to satisfy their curiosity.
• use trial and error, repetition, and imitation.

Intellectual Development
?
The time spent focused on one activity.

?
Understanding that one thing can stand for
something else.

?
• Children learn to use images, art, and language as
symbols to represent objects, events, and concepts.
• Between ages two and seven years, children start to
think symbolically and imaginatively.
• Imagination and creativity are natural products of
symbolic thought.

Language Development
• Vocabulary and language skills advance from ages one
to three.
• 18-month-olds can respond “__” or “__” to questions,
identify body parts, and follow simple commands.
• 2- to 3-year-olds know 50–__ words and can follow more
complex directions.

?
A general idea formed from other information.

?
• The ability to understand concepts increases rapidly
with emerging language skills.
• Children use broad generalities when first labeling
concepts.
• Children absorb and make sense of information through
assimilation and accommodation.

?
• Toddlers are still beginning to develop emotional
control and are prone to impulsiveness and mood
swings.
• Frustrations arise because toddlers’ abilities do not
yet match their desire to learn and do more.
• Language advances help children gain greater
control over their behavior.

Emotional Development
?
Independence.

?
•.
• Toddlers are most at ease sharing time with a
caregiver or two or three children.
• Children develop stronger friendships after the age of
three.

Social Development
?
Playing alone rather than with other children.

Social Development
Two toddlers who are investigating a toy at
the same time are engaging in ___.

Nurturing Intellectual Development

Having means that toddlers understand
much more language than they can speak.
?
The ability to understand spoken words.

Nurturing Intellectual Development
?
The ability to use words to express oneself.

Nurturing Emotional Development
?
A child’s fear of separation from familiar people.


?
• is a sign of positive emotional development.
• It shows development of a strong emotional bond to
parents or early educators.
• Caregivers need to be patient and to help children cope.


?
• is a tendency to refuse to do something or to do the
opposite of what is asked.
• Negativism is a healthy sign of independence.
• To reduce negativism, toddlers need chances to make
choices and to practice self-help skills.

?
An episode in which a child shows anger or frustration
in an aggressive or destructive way.


Temper Tantrums
If a tantrum occurs,
•react ____.
•keep an eye on the child at all times.
•provide a place to rest.
•communicate with parents.

Nurturing Social Development

• Children begin cooperative play around age three.
• Toddlers can understand simple rules for behavior.
• Toddlers are just beginning to learn to share.
• Disputes and conflicts occur among toddlers.
• Caregivers encourage cooperation, set examples,
take steps to minimize conflict, and maintain careful
observation of the children.

Managing Toddler Programs

• Successful toddler programs work with parents to ensure
that toddlers have the spaces and routines needed for
development in all areas.
• The leadership of the child care professional and
collaborative teamwork by all care providers are essential to
a program’s success.

Classroom Spaces
Toddler spaces require
• age-appropriate furniture
and toys.
• a secure and comfortable
environment.
• learning centers appropriate
for the age, size, and
development of toddlers.

Daily Routines
Toddlers feel more secure when their
routines, whether at home or in a child care
setting, are consistent from day to day.
consistent
Continually the same.

Daily Routines
Routines provide structure and a consistent schedule.
A typical routine includes
• arrival.
• playtime in learning centers and outdoors.
• diapering, toileting, and hand washing.
• meals and snacks.
• napping.
• story time and music.
• departure.

Review Key Concepts
Summarize the signs of physical, intellectual,

emotional, and social development in toddlers.
• Physical: learning to walk, decreased appetite, teeth come in,

large- and small-motor skills improve, toileting begins.
• Intellectual: learn by doing and using senses, attention span
increases, memory improves, symbolic thinking occurs,
language skills increase, concepts develop.
• Emotional: mood shifts, autonomy increases, fears emerge.
• Social: slow progress, solitary play followed by parallel play,
independence and responsibility increase.

Review Key Concepts
Identify the information toddler programs need

from parents to develop individualized care and
activities.
• extent of vocabulary and the primary language spoken at
home
• small-motor, large-motor, and toileting skills
• napping habits
• typical behavior and recent experiences that might affect
behavior
• experiences with other children

Review Key Concepts
Describe the key features of successful toddler

programs.
• Successful toddler programs work with parents to ensure that

toddlers have the spaces and routines needed for
development in all areas.
• Toddler spaces need age-appropriate furniture and toys; a
secure and comfortable environment; learning centers
appropriate for the age, size, and development of toddlers; and
a consistent daily routine.

End of
Chapter 15
Nurturing Toddlers
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Chapter 15: Nurturing Toddlers

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Nurturing Intellectual Development

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Nurturing Emotional Development

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Nurturing Social Development

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Managing Toddler Programs

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Review Key Concepts

Summarize the signs of physical, intellectual,

• Physical: learning to walk, decreased appetite, teeth come in,

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Review Key Concepts

Identify the information toddler programs need

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Review Key Concepts

Describe the key features of successful toddler

• Successful toddler programs work with parents to ensure that

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