Stop Second-guessing Yourself: The Toddler Years: A Field-Tested Guide to Confident Parenting - Softcover

When it comes to raising a toddler, forget about 'what to expect.' It's the unexpected that transforms calm, collected women into frazzled, fried moms. Days when you're running on four hours' sleep and your toddler is melting down on the grocery store floor; times when you're wondering how to dislodge a small object from your child's nose; or those minutes when you think it surely must be two o'clock...except it's only ten thirty. So much for the blessed moments that moms admit to. Welcome to reality. In Stop Second-Guessing Yourself -- The Toddler Years, award-winning web site creator and blogger Jen Singer offers the same camaraderie, advice, and encouragement she's become known for as the Internet's favorite Momma. Filled with proven real-world parenting tips, moms' true confessions, and plenty of humor, this validating guide will help you survive the toddler years with more confidence. From bedtime to naps, feeding and potty-training, finding the right playgroup to finding mom-time, it's all here and more. It's the field guide to confident parenting that you'll want to keep in the diaper bag, just in case.

Jen Singer is a stay-at-home mom of two small boys who talk to her through the bathroom door. She is the author of You're a Good Mom and 14 Hours 'Til Bedtime: A Stay-at-Home Mom's Life in 27 Funny Little Stories. She has written articles or been used as a media source for The New York Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Family Circle, Parenting, Parents, Real Simple and more. She is the creator of www.MommaSaid.net, the stay-at-home mom's coffee break(TM) and a Forbes Best of the Web community which boasts subscribers from across the U.S., and in 30 countries. She is the creator of "Please Take My Children to Work Day," a holiday for stay-at-home moms celebrated on the last Monday each June which was officially proclaimed by governors in at least six states.