Toddlers And Their Love Hate Relationship With Apples
If your toddler seems to love apples but always spits them out after chewing them up, you’re not alone! This is common for children roughly between the ages of 18 months and 3 years of age.
Newborn On Deck! My Quick Preparatory Review Of The Fourth Trimester
The fourth trimester is the period of time from the birth of a baby until they are 3 months old. In this post, we do a quick round up of things to keep in mind during this stage of your child’s development.
Six Resources For Navigating The Latest CDC Developmental Milestones
The CDC has recently updated their developmental checklist. While there are improvements in some areas, other areas are concerning. Here are some resources to help guide you through the updates and their implications.
Wrapping Up a Year of Immersion in Newbery Medal Books
A year ago I started out to read as many Newbery Medal winning books as possible before the 100th anniversary of the award. While I didn’t end up reading as many as I thought, I did have a fabulous deep dive into amazing Children’s Literature.
Is Therapy Required? Past Tense Verb Errors and Your Toddler
Along that path to mature language usage, a child makes many, many, many errors. And has a million learning attempts. And things that make us giggle. For the average toddler, past tense verb errors are one of the most classic forms of “cute errors”. Almost every toddler passes through it at one point or another and it is an expected, predictable and totally normal toddler and preschooler speech error.
Children and Their Love of (Tearing, Ripping, and Destroying) Books
It’s a sad day when your child destroys a beloved book. And it poses a dilemma: put the books on a higher shelf and limit your child’s free access to them OR leave the books lower, within their reach, but risk their destruction? The good news is that there’s another option.
An Aside: Curious Variations in Nursery Rhymes
Over the past few years as I’ve read through nursery rhymes, I’ve noticed that many of the rhymes published in the books differed from the versions I grew up reciting. And many of them also differed from their counterparts in other books. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of some of the differences.
Imagination, Fear, And Nightmares In Young Children During Halloween
Halloween and associated activities can get the adrenaline pumping in any of us but it can be especially scary and real to young children. Kids between the ages of two and four are still learning to distinguish between what is pretend and what is real. They have not yet developed the cognitive capacity to differentiate that on their own. Everything that enters their brains is treated equally at this age. And that can spill over into their dreams.
Teal Pumpkins: More Than Just The Latest Fall Decorating Craze
Teal pumpkins are popular decorations but did you know that they symbolize a lot more for children with food allergies? Read on to find out more!
8 Weird Things Babies Do While Eating That Are Totally Normal
Older babies and younger toddlers are still learning a lot about their world and that includes meal times and food intake. From experience, I know that some of these things can be maddening. It’s frustrating when your child does some of these things. So, I decided to round up of a series of weird but perfectly normal things that babies and young toddlers do while eating.