Quotes About Toddlers

I have a history with domestic violence myself. I have toddlers in my home, and I'm a gun owner. And, as a veteran, I'm a member of a community that has a very high suicide rate. So all of those things have touched my life.

In the early twentieth century it had been used to remove the hair of children with scalp infections, such as ringworm, so that doctors could see and treat the fungus. But that practice had been abandoned when too many of the toddlers died.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

those toddlers who had experienced the fewest disrupted placements and changes in caregiver during their first year(s) of life tended to adjust to their new families with the least difficulty.

Toddlers who were prepared and gradually transitioned to their adoptive families adjusted much more quickly than those without preparation or transition did.

Not surprisingly, the toddlers who made the transition to their adoptive homes with the least amount of trauma also formed the strongest and quickest attachments to their adoptive parents. They also displayed the fewest long-term problems.

John Bowlby (1973) reported on a landmark study of the adoption of securely attached toddlers that demonstrated that transitional objects had a major impact on reducing placement trauma. In this study, many of the toddlers' belongings, including beds, blankets, and toys, accompanied them to their new homes.

B abysitting toddlers was not for the weak.

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.