Welcome to the Preview Site for
The Toddlerhood Transition
(Parenting Your 18 to 36 Month Old)
There are nine visits in The Toddlerhood Transition series, each visit averages approximately 22 minutes. The target audience are parents with children between 18 and 36 months of age, (although many of the principles extend to preschool and school age children). Below are the visit summaries and video preview. DVD release is scheduled for October 12, 2009. (Student workbooks available after December 25, 2009.)
Visit One: The Principle of WHY
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Opinions on how to raise a toddler are easy to come by and the ease with which parents can find a ready-made solution might be part of a bigger problem within our society. This lesson shows parents how to find answers consistent with their beliefs by discovering the Why of their parenting. Whatever question a parent may have, whatever need is present, whatever problem arises, finding the right solution is not far way.
Visit Two: The Journey of Fatherhood
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During the toddler years, a father’s influence grows exponentially. He inscribes on his child’s heart impressions that can last a lifetime. The journey of fatherhood is not just about impacting our children but another means by which God nudges men from their old ways of self-centered attitudes to becoming more and more other-centered. While the journey will not always be easy or the pathway clearly marked, there are some timeless guiding principles discussed within this visit that can help make every Dad a great Dad. The Journey of Fatherhood – what will it look like in your home?
Visit Three: The Journey of Motherhood
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A loving, caring Mom is a great influence affecting the life of a child. She is a heavenly appointed guardian influencing the life-formation of her child. The home environment that has a mother preoccupied with heaven as much as earth, is one destined to shape kingdoms. This visit speaks to the importance of finding the right advice, understanding gender differences, balancing a career with family life, and knowing how to parent the whole child, not just the child’s emotions. The Journey of Motherhood can satisfy your soul and bless your children. So much of this outcome is the result of a resourceful mother who is totally dependent on an ever resourceful God.
Visit Four: Structuring Your Child’s Day
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Parenting takes us down a one-way track—and fast. That’s because children grow and develop at tremendous rates. This visit provides the practical tools and information needed to implement structure and routine into your life and into the life of your toddler. Ordering your child’s world with structure and routine will not only keep your child on the right track, but it will take both of you in a direction of satisfaction and accomplishment.
Visit Five: The Nature of Toddler Conflict
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The period between 18 and 36 months is the greatest period of conflict in the life of every human being, because so much of what a toddler is learning runs contrary to his nature, which is all about “Me”. Toddlerhood training then, is a process of moving a child from his own world of me-ism to an understanding and acceptance of the greater community of we-ism and the skill of social reciprocity. This visit brings clarity to the unique challenge of toddler conflict.
Visit Six: The Why of Obedience
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When it comes to toddler parenting, what role will rules and boundaries play in the life of your child? Where will you draw the line when it comes to acceptable and unacceptable behavior? We can promise you this; there will be plenty of times when your toddler will not want to obey you. But more significantly, there will be plenty of times when your child absolutely must obey you. This is why obedience training with your toddler is so important. Obedience training helps parents manage their children until their children acquire age-appropriate self-control to manage their own lives. This visit shows parents just how to accomplish that.
Visit Seven: Sending Right and Wrong Messages
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The way in which we talk to our children is often as important as what we say. There are subtle, secondary messages attached to our voice tones, body language, facial expressions and general lifestyle. Impressionable toddlers are very quick to pick up on these secondary signals and respond. What kind of messages are you sending to your children and how meaningful do you want them to be? This visit shows parents how they can reduce conflict with their toddler while encouraging obedience.
Visit Eight: Instruction, Encouragement and Correction
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As a mom or dad, you probably have come to realize there are times when your developing toddler will reject or strongly oppose your reasonable instructions. Usually, this is because he doesn’t know your instructions are reasonable. Keeping a toddler on track is the goal of discipline and bringing him back to where he should be is the role of correction. What will you do when your toddler’s little hands, legs and mind take him to places he should not be? What can you do to keep him on track and moving forward? In visit eight we discuss how you can guide with instruction, motivate with encouragement and establish necessary boundaries through correction.
Visit Nine: Topic Pool
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The toddler “topic pool” is where we place those items of conversation that were not fully addressed in the previous visits or not at all. But they are topics in need of a parent’s attention. This visit focuses on a variety of secondary and independent toddler issues in need of comment or clarification.
