Toddler care from 13 to 24 months
Your records can change as your child grows. You may want fewer routine entries and more notes about a new skill, a meal question or a change at bedtime. These guides bring together common toddler topics without a checklist of daily targets.
Keep the useful parts and leave room for memories
Revisit why you started a particular log. If it no longer answers a question, you can simplify it unless your clinician has asked you to keep recording. For a memory, add a date and a few words about what happened; you do not need to compare it with another child’s timeline.
Choose the question you have today
Toddler sleep from 18 months to 3: bedtime battles and night waking
How much sleep toddlers need, an example day, and calm ways to handle bedtime stalling, night waking, nightmares, night terrors and climbing out of the cot.
Toddler tantrums: why they happen, what to do and when to worry
Why tantrums happen, what to do during one, how to prevent them, biting and hitting, breath-holding spells, and when to get help.
Fussy eating in toddlers: why it happens and what helps
Why toddlers become picky eaters, calm strategies that help, what to avoid, an example day of meals and snacks, and when fussy eating needs a doctor.
Toddler milestones 12–24 months: walking, words and play
The CDC's 15-month, 18-month and 2-year checklists, the toddler word spurt, play ideas, safety for new walkers and the signs worth checking early.
Screen time for babies and toddlers: guidelines by age
What the WHO, AAP and Australian guidance say about screens from birth to 5, plus video calls, co-viewing, background TV, sleep and a simple family plan.
Separation anxiety in babies and toddlers: ages, drop-off and sleep
When separation anxiety starts and peaks, what it looks like, how to handle goodbyes, bedtime and childcare, and when it's more than a normal stage.
Put it into practice
Try a worked recording example or use the free printable feeding and sleep log. Neither needs an account. The guide library links to its health sources and states the guidance region.
See the private family journal
Age is a way to organise reading, not a timetable for feeding, sleep or development. These collections have not been independently clinically reviewed. Use your child’s individual care plan and read our editorial standards.