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    Toddler Owner's Manual: Father's Edition
    Toddler Owner's Manual: Father's Edition
    Toddler Owner's Manual: Father's Edition
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    Toddler Owner's Manual: Father's Edition

    By Steve Bedwell

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    A humorous operating guide for fathers, this is sure to bring a smile to any dad's face   Written by a man for men, this book likens a toddler to the other love in a man's life, not his wife—his car—and is packaged in the form of a retro car manual. An essential handbook (or gift) for fathers and fathers-to-be, it covers the difficult ownership period of your Mother Nature Heavy Industry child from 18 months to three years. This out-of-warranty period can be difficult, and the manual will help fathers navigate such vexing stages as solid food consumption, child self waste disposal training, tentative first steps, as well as long term servicing and immunization issues and maximizing the usefulness of your toddler. This is a must have book for any father facing the challenges of a rapidly developing little human.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781925017694
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      Toddler Owner's Manual - Steve Bedwell

      For my darling Zara and Eloise, one of you has finished toddling and the other is about to start. Thank you for the love and laughter and constant inspiration, and more than anything, thank you to my beautiful wife Elana, whose constant support and encouragement gets me off my behind and writing. I love you all.

      A Rockpool book

      PO Box 252

      Summer Hill

      NSW 2130

      www.rockpoolpublishing.com.au

      www.facebook.com/RockpoolPublishing

      First published in 2014

      Copyright © Steve Bedwell 2014

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

      Bedwell, Steve, author.

      Toddler owner’s manual / Steve Bedwell.

      Father’s edition

      9781925017199 (paperback)

      Infants--Care.

      Fatherhood.

      649.122

      Edited by Glenda Downing

      Cover and internal design by Debaser

      Picture research by Emelie Ousback

      Typeset by TypeSkill

      All images sourced from Shutterstock

      This eBook was developed by IntegralDMS

      Contents

      A word of introduction from Mother Nature Heavy Industries Pty Ltd

      Section A: The Road to Toddling

      Section B: The Terrible Twos

      Section C: Eating, Sleeping and Toilet Training

      Section D: Correcting Bad Habits and Unwanted Behaviour

      Section E: Entertainment and Beyond the Home

      Further reading and resources

      Appendix: Service history

      A word of introduction from Mother Nature Heavy Industries Pty Ltd

      Congratulations, your Mother Nature Heavy Industries (MNHI) baby is no longer a baby, he has entered the second stage of his development and, as a result, the second stage of your ownership. Your baby is now officially a toddler. MNHI officially describes a toddler as being in that stage after infancy and before childhood, predominantly between the ages of 12 to 36 months when the child begins to walk unsteadily or ‘toddle’.

      MNHI wishes to remind you that your child is no longer covered by the MNHI 12-month unlimited kilometre crawling warranty and, as such, the father is liable for any servicing or extra attention the toddler may need during this precarious period. Additional warranty protection can be purchased from your local MNHI dealer, the cost of which may vary depending upon the intended usage of the toddler and where the toddler will be housed. Additional warranty protection is advised particularly in the case of more rambunctious and accident-prone boy model toddlers.

      This is also a stage of great development in other areas of your child’s life, as he grows into a period known as ‘the terrible twos’. Your toddler will at various times be unpredictable, destructive and above all, demanding. MNHI has designed this manual as a survival guide for fathers as they steer a course through this most testing of times in their child’s growth.

      This MNHI manual will cover all aspects of toddler ownership. It is important to note that although your toddler may be out of the official MNHI warranty period, full servicing and maintenance enquiries can be handled at additional cost by any one of the 211 MNHI service centres nation wide. It is strongly recommended that any repairs or maintenance required by your toddler be carried out at one of these authorised service centres to maintain the integrity of your toddler’s operating systems.

      As with the Baby Owner’s Manual, the Toddler Owner’s Manual is designed to enable fathers to navigate this most challenging of periods by empowering them with the prerequisite skills and knowledge to match their child’s developmental stage. Toddlers grow and develop at different rates and, accordingly, this manual is purely a guide as to what a father can expect during the 24-month toddler period. Fathers should not be alarmed if their child does not begin walking until 24 months, as every child MNHI produces is individually programmed to meet different performance goals.

      The problems faced by the owner of a toddler are many and varied, from tantrums and the eruption of teeth to confronting the use of the toilet for the first time, from eating to sleeping and every developmental stage in between. MNHI trained professionals are here to help at every step of the way.

      The toddler stage is full of joy and changes, and although at times these challenges may seem insurmountable, this manual and the advice contained within will steer any father through the turbulent times that lie ahead. As such, MNHI suggests that you take time to fully absorb this manual and follow the recommendations contained within.

      MNHI has taken great care and consideration in compiling this manual to ensure your every query is met in a way that will not only provide peace of mind but also simplicity and clarity of purpose for the efficient and trouble-free ownership and operation of your toddler. As a result of years of research and development, this manual has been divided into the following five easy-to-read, understand and implement sections:

      Section A: The Road to Toddling This section will deal with the period of ownership up until your toddler’s first steps, including the celebration of the completion of the first year of ownership and suggestions for how to commemorate this event. This event

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