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Toddlerhood (age 12–36 months), the transition between infancy and the preschool years, is a period of multiple developmental changes. During toddlerhood, children consolidate many of the skills that begin to emerge during infancy. Walking with a wide-based gait becomes steady walking, running, and jumping. Single words become multiword sentences. Being fed by a caregiver becomes self-feeding along with food preferences. These advances represent toddlers’ increasing neurocognitive, motor, and language skills along with their desire for autonomy and their emerging ability to regulate their behavior and emotions. This chapter begins with a review of the development changes that occur during toddlerhood and then addresses toddler eating behavior, focusing on how toddlers’ advancing developmental skills impact their eating behavior, dietary preferences, and mealtime habits.