Babies Build Toddlers eBook

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Babies Build Toddlers is a unique parenting book with an innovation illustrative approach that makes child development information both accessible and actionable for everyday readers. Author, Mariana Bissonnette tells the powerful story of the child during their most essential stage of development: infancy.

The first 18 months of life lay a critical foundation for a child's future emotional, cognitive, physical, and social well-being. But this early time is often the most difficult for parents! Many find themselves in “survival mode” until toddlerhood, something that overlooks the incredible potential of this early time. Moreover, toddlers are remarkably determined to be independent - a feat that is either emboldened or limited by their own abilities and skills that grow over time. The infant, therefore, is the one who builds their own capacity to be independent in toddlerhood. In short, babies build toddlers.

Babies Build Toddlers offers readers a window into this intersection of development, education and parenting through . . .

• Clear developmental timelines for the first 18 months of life, including movement, language, eating, sleeping, hygiene, and bonding

• Practical suggestions for how to use child development information to come up with solutions to common parenting problems, as well as day-to-day, scientifically-grounded suggestions and recommendations

• Illustrations from a team of illustrators who celebrate the fullness of each parent's joinery and provide an authentically diverse representation of children and their development

Mariana Bissonnette (she/her) is an early childhood educator with AMI Montessori teaching credentials for ages 0-6 and has extensive work with children and parents as a parenting coach and classroom teacher. After seeing a gap between parents and early childhood educators in the first years of life, Mariana founded a community program, PEACE (Parent Education and Child Empowerment) to connect with parents through life’s earlier and most critical stage of development. Mariana was born, raised and is currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband (also a Montessori educator), two children and two dogs.