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Preparing Your Toddler for a New Sibling

A new baby means lots of changes. For adults, these changes can be understood intellectually and rationally. That’s not necessarily true for toddlers, however, who can have a hard time Read More

Preparing Teens for the Transition to College

The end of high school and the beginning of college can be an incredibly stressful time for parents and teens alike. For many teens, college may represent their first foray Read More

The Role of Art and Creativity in Childhood Development

Children are naturally creative. And, it turns out, that creativity can be critical in this overall development. To be sure, growth and development for children is a complex process and Read More

The Impact of Parental Stress on Infant Well-Being: Coping Strategies

Stress is contagious. This isn’t true in a germ-theory sense. You can’t “catch” stress from someone the same way you can pick up a cold or a flu. But being Read More

Recognizing Developmental Milestones

Not all children grow at the same pace. Each individual will grow emotionally, mentally, and physically at their own rate. However, there are some broad developmental milestones and benchmarks that Read More

Addressing Childhood Anxiety: Tools for Parents and Educators

It may surprise some to learn that children can experience incredibly potent anxiety, and this anxiety can significantly impact their daily lives and their overall health. Periodic amounts of anxiety Read More

Managing Homework Stress

There’s one word that is almost universally known to stress out kids and teenagers: homework. As your child grows up, they will likely encounter more and more homework throughout their Read More

Creating a Stimulating Home Environment for Cognitive Growth

For young children, everything is new. It’s one of the reasons that kids are such natural learners: they’re always absorbing new information. And left to their own devices, children will Read More

How to Encourage Independent Play in Toddlers

New parents especially are often caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, there’s immense pressure (both from peers and from children) to be actively engaged Read More

Helping Kids Cope with Failure

Success is never guaranteed. That’s a lesson most adults are fairly familiar with, and it’s an unavoidable truth of daily life. But for parents, there’s a desire to protect kids Read More

Encouraging Outdoor Play

Most parents and caretakers understand that getting your children to spend time outdoors carries specific benefits. After all, it makes a certain amount of intuitive sense: smelling the grass and Read More

Early Signs of Speech and Language Delays

Human speech and communication is complex. As a result, the language and speech skills we all use to talk to each other every day tend to develop slowly. In most Read More

Strategies for Supporting Children with Learning Differences

Not everyone’s brains work the same. Every child is going to take a unique approach to engaging with academic content and, as a result, will learn differently. The term “learning Read More

Helping Toddlers Transition from Bottles to Cups: Best Practices

Babies and toddlers do an incredible amount of growing and learning during the first years of their lives. But that doesn’t always mean it’s easy. Transitioning from bottles to cups, Read More

How to Encourage Healthy Sleep Associations in Infants and Toddlers

For many parents, getting your infant and toddler to sleep through the night can be an exceptional challenge. For children of this age, sleep can be an anxious and emotional Read More

How Nutrition Affects Learning and Behavior in Kids

There’s the old saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What might be more accurate, however, is to say that good nutrition is critical to helping Read More

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