Nail-biting is a common behavior among children, with around 50% doing it. While most children stop on their own, some may continue to bite their nails, which can lead to bacterial infections and permanent nail damage. Here are ten tips to help stop your toddler’s nail-biting habit: Trimming your child’s nails regularly can help prevent … Read more about Nail-Biting Toddlers: 10 Tips to Help Break the Habit
My boys were 7, 5, and 3 when my daughter was born a micro preemie in 2012. Joy weighed just 1 pound, 4 ounces and was not even the length of a ruler. While I knew that her birth would change our lives forever, I couldn’t have predicted all the ways she would teach my … Read more about 5 Reasons My Sons Are Better for Having a Preemie Sister
“Go” Before You Go If you have a recently potty trained child, you can probably relate to the following scenario: You have your three-year-old use the potty twice before you leave the house. You get to the grocery store. Your cart is loaded. Suddenly your daughter looks at you, grabbing at her pants uncomfortably before … Read more about 5 Public Potty Pointers: How to help kids overcome public toilet phobias
Any mother who has ever heard her own words parroted back to her by a young child knows all too well what good listeners children can be. Often, it seems, they’re listening when we don’t even know it! Infants appear to focus on the human voice shortly after birth, and some research indicates they can … Read more about Helping Kids Find Their Learning Styles: Learn By Hearing
Remember the feeling of exhilaration you had the day your baby was born? You gazed at his tiny face, amazed by that absolute perfection and innocence. Did you suspect that he was already hard at work, examining his world, collecting information and beginning to construct the foundations of his future self? As babies, children begin … Read more about Helping Kids Find Their Learning Styles: Learn By Seeing
When she was a preschooler, my daughter Erin spent most of her day in motion. From the time her feet hit the floor until the moment her eyes closed she was dancing. Her days were spent organizing costumes, creating props and planning shows, all for the sole purpose of dance. Our house was filled not … Read more about Helping Kids Find Their Learning Styles: Learn By Doing
Bunny My Honey How Bunny loves his mommy in this adorable book! And Mommy adores her little one. But one day Bunny runs too far on his own and gets lost in the deep woods. A sweet, reassuring book by the illustrator of Guess How Much I Love You. Baby Faces Full of crisp, color photographs, Baby Faces captures … Read more about 14 Great Classic Books Must-Have for Every Child’s Library
The Basics Just as all people must learn to crawl before they can walk, children must attain certain milestones before they can become part of the world of words. Parents can do much to help unlock the magical realm of reading. When your baby is even just days old, there are steps you an take … Read more about Tips for Developing Pre-Reading Skills in Young Children
Children are very different from one another. Some thrive in environments filled with people. They talk to anyone the meet. They tell stories, and they may even sing their latest song for a delighted group of onlookers. Other children, though, are overwhelmed by a room full of new people, let alone one new person who … Read more about 12 Solutions for Your Shy Child
Reading Time As I read to my son over the first two years of his life, I often wondered how he interpreted the words, the pictures, and my tone of voice. When he lay on my lap at eight weeks, gazing at a bathrobe and a sandbox in Lucy Cousins’ Maisy’s Colors, how did he process these … Read more about Read Your Children a Story—and Boost Their Brainpower