What to Expect the Second Year: From 12 to 24 Months

Heidi Murkoff's What to Expect has delivered again. Announcing the arrival of a brand-new member of the What to Expect family: <i>What to Expect the Second Year</i>. The essential sequel to <i>What to Expect the First Year,</i> with 9.7 million copies in print, <i>What to Expect the Second Year</i> picks up the action at baby's first birthday, and takes parents through what can only be called &quot;the wonder year&quot; - 12 jam-packed (and jam-smeared) months of memorable milestones (from first steps to first words, first scribbles to first friends) , lightning-speed learning, endless explorations driven by insatiable curiosity. Not to mention a year of challenges, both for toddlers and the parents who love them, but don't always love their behaviors (picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime battles, biting, and tantrums) .<br>Comprehensive, reassuring, empathetic, realistic, and practical, <i>What to Expect the Second Year</i> is filled with solutions, strategies, and plenty of parental pep talks. It helps parents decode the fascinating, complicated, sometimes maddening, always adorable little person last year's baby has become. <br><br>From the first birthday to the second, this must-have book covers everything parents need to know in an easy-to-access, topic-by-topic format, with chapters on growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors of every conceivable kind, discipline (including teaching right from wrong) , and keeping a toddler healthy and safe as he or she takes on the world. There's a developmental time line of the second year plus special &quot;milestone&quot; boxes throughout that help parents keep track of their toddler's development. Thinking of traveling with tot in tow? There's a chapter for that, too.