Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behaviour

Fantastic book, we have a very strong willed, independent, opinionated but beautiful, amazing 3 year old little girl and we breathed a huge sigh of relief when we realised she is not being difficult she's being a toddler. Fabulous tips and advice some of which we have implemented with great success!! If you have a toddler you need this book in your life! Thanks Jo xx

My husband and I both bought this book so we were on the same page (no pun intended) It was an eye opener as we could see it was our inconsistency, lack of awareness and discipline That had created a little terror. Thank you Jo you saved us from insanity and we are using your techniques with confidence and determination.

Brilliant advice for anyone with a head strong toddler! advice is simple and easy to follow and if persistent, it works. Really like the writing style and the fact that you delve in and out of chapters that apply to your circumstances, with ease.

I bought this book to try and get some insight into my three year olds recent change in behaviour. My daughter has always been a contented child but became much more challenging and full of tantrums. From the feedback I expected to learn some techniques to deal with these, however, I was left somewhat disappointed that there was not more in this area and what was discussed heavily hinged upon the naughty step. Overall it was an interesting read for parents but I did feel it lacking in practical techniques.

Helpful and honest. I certainly have taken aboard the idea of stepping back and determining what I should do rather than immediately telling my child off. There were lots of scenarios discussed relevant to me dealing with both myself and a 2 1/2 year old.

I chose his book to help me with my 2 year old's changes in sleep pattern i.e. Not wanting to sleep in her own bed and this book has helped me consider options to address this in addition to other typical toddler behaviours such as tantrums....and I have a very strong willed little girl! This book is brilliant, easy to read and I can see I will be picking it up and re-reading sections of it for the next 2-3 years! Highly recommended.

Bought this after another fraught evening with my 3yo. I like Jo Frost’s approach but this book didn’t advise me to do anything I’m not already doing. Could do with Jo Frost herself!

Love Super nanny Jo and as a nanny myself, I’ve seen myself in a lot of these situation with families so nothing better than reading about others nannies work, can give new perspective and also can be useful for families. I would highly recommend to any parent with questions.

Good tips for parents of toddlers. Parts of the book seemed repetitive and some topics could have been expanded upon.

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I love this book ❤️ The book teach me very well. Thank you !

The book has been great for me figuring out how to parent. I bought used and regretted it though, cause the copy I got had severe water damage and black spots in it. I would rate lower, but Jo Frost’s book is so good I couldn’t!

My saving grace! I am so grateful!!!! I bought this book when my son was about 18 months because he was starting to have tantrums and run away from us and it was dangerous. I read the part about the tantrums and was like, pfft. Then I tried out the tips for getting him to eat but they didn't work very well. I think he was too young honestly. This book has been collecting dust for a while. But my son turned 2 a month ago and started climbing out of his crib AND opening his door!!! so we had to transition to a toddler bed. My son is an explorer, he's impulsive, fearless, stubborn, hardheaded, and did i mention stubborn? I was having the worst time getting him to stay in his bed. I made the mistake of rocking him to sleep the first 2 yrs. And thats the only way he can get back to sleep. So he would wake up in the middle of the night, walk into our room and i had to go and rock him to sleep. And everytime i put him down he would wake up instantly and cry. As you can imagine I wasn't getting any sleep and was starting to get resentful. I tried putting him back in his bed repeatedly but my method was ALL wrong and it just got me ANGRY and him upset. One night neither of us got any sleep. It was horrendous. it was getting to the point where even if i put him to bed at 1am super tired he would still be awake and walking around at 7am. which was fine with me. until he started to get up at night. He just couldn't put himself back to sleep. I tried various solutions to this problem and none worked. Like i said, the kid is stubborn as hell. I was at my wit's end!! Then I picked up this book again. I said, let me try the sleep thing and see what she says. Her method was better than mine, same principle, different method. So i tried it yesterday for nap time. I noticed when I stopped picking him up and putting him in his bed, everything changed. he wanted that interaction. he wanted me to keep picking him up. once i just ignored him and stared stone faced at the wall and didn't react and let him stand there i noticed he just jumped up and down yelling but stayed next to his bed. he never even went towards the open door. and maybe 5 min in he got quiet. and stood there. i moved the chair further out and continued to sit still. he stood quietly and defiantly. at one point he even put his head down on a little table, but he refused to get in bed. eventually i was sitting outside of his door and then closed it (with lock). he came to the door pulling at the knob and crying. that lasted about 3 min at the most (it lasted hours the night before using my crappy method). then he got into his bed and slept for 2 hours! Thats a big deal. His naps had been reduced to like an hour at most. He wasn't getting enough sleep and it was unhealthy. When he woke up he went for the door and when he couldn't open it he got back into bed. Huge deal. Last night i tried this method again. This time he stood and cried for a few min and then got himself into bed and stayed there quietly staring at me. i moved my chair back progressively. all the while he laid quietly in his bed looking at me. finally i was sitting outside and closed the door with lock and he came to the door and tried to open it and cried. This lasted 30 seconds at most, then he went into his bed and went to sleep!!! WHAT?!!! OMG!!! he stayed there all night long! and whats more, this morning, instead of getting up at 7am when the sun comes up (like he has been for over a week) he stayed sleeping till 9am!!!!! AMAZING!! i am soooo grateful!! I can sleep and my son is well adjusted!!! I will keep locking the door for a few days then i will stop. i like him to be able to walk out and walk around in the mornings. i just want to make sure he knows to stay in his room at night and honestly its working like a charm. Just wanted to share this with you guys because nothing else was working and i was so desperate. Thank God for this book!! Next I'm going to tackle eating! I always watched Super Nanny trying to get tips before i had kids. Its a diff thing once you have them. But I highly recommend this book. i mean, this stuff works! its kind of crazy how well it works.