See How They Run: An Energizing Guide to Keeping Up with Your Turbo-Toddler

by Lorilee Craker

Equal Parts Saintly Cherub and Demanding Emperor– Who Is This Child Formerly Known As Your Baby?

Faster than a speeding bullet…Is it Superman? Nope, just your high-energy toddler, keeping life interesting–and mom on the run! Once, you dreamed of the day your precious baby would walk and talk. Now, you are constantly dragging your child out of the dog’s dish, making up answers to unanswerable questions (“Why, Mom, why?”), and engaging in power struggles with the world’s most adorable 25-pound dictator.

Do other mothers of toddlers have days like this? You bet your sweet potty chair they do! Here are veteran moms’ stories and from-the-trenches advice on what works when dealing with the often challenging, always entertaining one- and two-year-old crowd,

• What to do when your tot glues himself to your leg for no apparent reason (other than to yell)
• Toys to boost your toddler’s brilliance–including freebies she’ll love most of all
• Taking the “toil” out of toilet training (it is rocket science, no matter what your mother-in-law says)
• Tantrum-tamers you can use from the mall to your mother’s house
• Getting your toddler to eat more orange and green (gummy worms don’t count)
• Ping pong prayers and other ways to connect Junior to God

Here at last is the help you’ve been longing a hilarious but practical bimonthly guide to surviving, enjoying–and laughing your way through–the exhausting, crazy-busy, glorious toddler years.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2004

About the author

Lorilee Craker is a writer in Michigan, United States. She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She has three children. She advocates participation in community-supported agriculture and shopping at farmers' markets. She is an entertainment writer for MLive. Craker co-authored Lynne Spears' memoir Through the Storm. Craker and Spears appeared together at the 20th annual MOPS International convention in Grapevine, Texas in 2008. Craker co-authored My Journey to Heaven: What I Saw and How It Changed My Life with Marv Besteman, who died before the book was published. In a 2011 Time article, Zac Bissonnette writes that Craker "might be the most versatile journalist in America".

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it was a decent overview of the toddler months, for a first-timer. I didn't find it energizing though and I saw no great advice for "keeping up with your turbo-toddler." I can see why you would pick it up as a quick review of each 3 month block, but I'm glad I got it at the library.

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think my mom bought this one for me...I like books that give you ideas for toddler-rearing....this one had some good ideas...