In fifteen pages this paper discusses behavioral issues pertaining to infants and toddler and also examines how these issues can be addressed through a pilot program development. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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them. Children from birth until three or four years old are cute and charming. Its difficult not to be attracted to tiny, bald babies with sweet faces, or cherubic toddlers
as they attempt to take their first steps into the world. There is an appeal that small children have that is difficult to explain, but that impacts people of all
ages and all walks of life. Yet the reality of the situation is that infants and toddlers can be frustrating beings as
well, particularly to their parents. This is especially true of younger parents - just having been in childhood themselves, younger parents still have yet to become patient adults, meaning that
they get impatient with their children. But one problem that besets all parents of toddlers and infants is that of communications. Communications
skills in small children have yet to be developed - the are unable to articulate loneliness, frustration or fear. Its true that the way a baby cries determines hunger or
sleepiness, yet until children develop the vocabulary and the way to connect words with feelings, communications with infants and toddlers can be frustrating. When communication is sporadic or unable to
be understood by a parent or caregiver, behavioral and emotional problems could result in the infant or toddler. For example, its one thing for a toddler to throw a temper
tantrum because he or she cant have an ice cream cone. But if a calm parent or caregiver distracts that toddler, the chances are good that the tantrum will end.
However, the long-term tantrum, despite best results to stop it, can create anxiety in parents minds that there is something wrong with their children (and therefore with them). The more