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Daily Life with Your Toddler: Fun Routines and Activities
Children are a treasure to parents. They bring joy and laughter to a couple starting to build a family. The experience of child rearing from infancy to childhood, and even into the later years of adolescence can be a challenge for parents. Yet, the main ingredient of...
Helping a Toddler with a Speech Delay
A happy couple sitting on the couch with their one year old baby, taking turns at cuddling and cooing him, is indeed a wonderful picture of expectant parents waiting for their infant's babbling, jargon, and first words. Many months later, this couple has that anxious...
Parenting Tips: How to Improve Toddler Behavior
It is a fact that toddlers at their age and stage in life are very prone to tantrum throwing, stubbornness and frustrations. To help parents improve toddler behavior here are some tips. Encourage your child to communicate. Always remind your child to speak and...
Fathers Play an Important Role with their Children
While almost any man can father a child, there is so much more to being a dad in a child’s life. A father plays an important role in a child’s development from birth through adulthood. A few generations ago, the role of fathers was more insufficiently defined. A...
Children’s Language and Literacy Development are Important
Language acquisition is one of the most remarkable achievements of childhood. Typically by age 5, children acquire a variety of speech and language skills and have an increased expressive and receptive vocabulary repertoire. Children’s language...
Promoting Language Development at Home
Language is the network of using words to communicate. It includes using words and gestures to say what we mean and comprehend by understanding what others say. Language development is the process by which young children come to understand and communicate...
Intervention Ideas for Toddlers and Preschoolers
The term discipline means to teach and impart knowledge and skill. Unfortunately, this term is often associated with punishment and control. A substantial amount of controversy hovers in our society regarding appropriate ways to discipline children and...
Choosing fun books to read with your infant, toddler, and preschooler
Reading to children is a habit that parents should begin early. Reading to babies is an exceptional way to introduce and familiarize them with the sounds and rhythms of speech. When you read to children, it is an effective way of getting their full attention and...
“Red flags” for speech and language development
Communication is an essential tool for growth and development. It is difficult to imagine a world with limited interactions and no means of getting across to one another. While there are many forms of communication, the most common is speech and language. Many...
Your Child’s Timeline: When the Major Milestones Happen
A baby’s ability to communicate develops gradually. Talking and being able to communicate are considered important milestones in a baby’s developmental growth. Infants will begin acquiring language skills during their daily routines from people within their...
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