Clodfobble,
We have been reading Penelope Leach's books on babies, toddlers, and those sort of people.
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Many consider child development specialist Penelope Leach to be Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's British counterpart. Her book, Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five, is a now a childrearing classic; she has also received acclaim for her recent volume, Children First. Readers admire Leach for her elegant writing style and her remarkable ability to make accessible the feelings and perspectives of babies and very young children.
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It is really eye opening (presuming you haven't stabbed them out already) to think about these situations from the perspective of the toddler.
Here is a link to a site with excerpts from her book.
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/general/539903 I'd get it if I were you. It's like a toddler instruction manual/troubleshooting guide combined with a translation dictionary.
She's British, so you do run the risk that your kid will grow up spelling 'color' colour. You can probably pass as Canadian though. Well, maybe not with a Texas accent.
Good luck