Before rushing your offspring into Tongan for Toddlers, though, there are a few caveats.
Seriously though, why do toddlers only repeat the bad words?
Dr. Spock found them useful, recommending "a coloring book or two, to keep the children occupied until the food is served," while the authors of "What to Expect: The Toddler Years" wrote that "Coloring books are not recommended … though some toddlers enjoy 'coloring,' others are exasperated by their inability to stay within the lines".
With the introduction of solid food, the diet becomes more varied, with new sources of PBDE exposures, even though some toddlers choose to eat a limited number of food items.
When Hazel Clark was not much more than a toddler, though, she decided two things: that she idolized her older and then-distant half sister, Joetta, and that she would never follow Joetta onto the track.
She still holds my hand as she did when she was a toddler, though not as often now (she reminds me that she is technically a tween).
In one corner is Mr. Wilzig, somewhat poorer and somewhat chastened, who now bills his $1 million racetrack as a trifling "recreational sporting course" that will be used both for his 60-plus motorcycles and for his kids' bicycling and skateboarding — though, since both are toddlers, that might have to wait.
Though her toddler patience has never gotten us far beyond the front entrance, she considers that grassy hill her personal playground.
So, I wouldn't mind a Woohoo for getting everyone where they need to go on time even though my toddler thinks it's an excellent time to throw a tantrum and my older two manage to move slower than actual sloths.
A study of toddler twins, though, found high levels of salivary cortisol in response to laboratory stressors (Ouellet-Morin et al. 2008).
