Parenting on a Rollercoaster
Toddlers can be tricky to feed. They’ve got short attention spans and ever changing taste buds. It might seem like they barely eat a thing. But! We’re here to tell you that they can eat surprisingly little and still be well within their nutritional and caloric needs. Read on for more info!
“My two-year-old isn’t able to show me how old he is with his fingers. When asked how old he is, he’ll consistently hold up five fingers. Is this normal?”
If you’ve ever spent much time around newborns, infants, and toddlers, you might have noticed that their fingernails and toenails often look misshapen and potentially concerning. Many of these strange looking nails aren’t a concern and are generally simply a result of babies being born with thinner and weaker nails than what adults are used to encountering.
It’s hard to know what sources to trust online, especially when you’re a sleep deprived new parent! Here are vetted Instagram favorites of mine to get you started on the right foot!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What about our young kids makes them programmed to love repetition? Why is this a universal characteristic? Should we be redirecting them to other, more novel, tasks and entertainment? Or should we cater to their preferences for sameness? Let’s take a look at some of the science behind this and perhaps we can take the edge off at the same time.