Jo Frost's Toddler Rules Quotes

“Your role is not to make your child happy every moment of the day regardless of the personal cost, but to raise her to be a thoughtful, kind, productive citizen of the world. Some people would beg to differ, but it’s not a choice to discipline or not. Your child needs discipline, just like she needs food and water.”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior

“One of my biggest fears is that school-age children end up getting labeled as having ADHD and are given medication when parents could have put in the early training that may have nipped these problems in the bud or at least made them less severe. I wonder how many children diagnosed with ADHD may not have a neurological condition but rather be suffering from a lack of time being put in on education in the early years to help develop those brain circuits and increase the ability to focus and concentrate.”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior

“It’s okay for your child to feel angry. It’s okay for him to be frustrated. Frustration helps him push through adversity, to focus and persevere till he gets it. There’s a maturity that comes from that. A child is not psychologically unhappy if he’s frustrated. He’s just experiencing an emotion in the moment, and if you help him push through, it will lead to more endurance, more stick-to-it-iveness, and the satisfaction of doing it himself.”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior

“Your child needs discipline, just like she needs food and water.”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior

“1 cup milk plus: 1. Small bowl cold cereal + blueberries + yogurt 2. 1 egg, scrambled or boiled + 1 slice toast + strawberries 3. 1 cut-up chicken sausage + toast + ½ banana 4. ½ bagel + cream cheese + raspberries 5. 1 slice ham on toast + ½ orange 6. ½ tortilla rolled up with cheese + melon + yogurt 7. Small bowl oatmeal + cut-up bananas and strawberries Lunch and Dinner 1. 1 salmon cake + carrots + rice 2. Fish pie + broccoli 3. 3 oz salmon + cup of pasta + peas 4. 2 fish sticks + cup couscous + veg 5. ½ breast of chicken + veg + small potato 6. Roast chicken + dumplings + veg 7. 1 meat or peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich + apple + yogurt 8. 1 small homemade pizza + fruit 9. Pasta with tomato sauce and cheese + veg 10. Chicken risotto + veg 11. Ground beef + potato + peas 12. Small tuna pasta bake + veg 13. 4 meatballs + pasta + veg 14. Chicken stir-fry with veg + rice”
― Jo Frost, Jo Frost's Toddler Rules: Your 5-Step Guide to Shaping Proper Behavior