development
Getting Baby Used to a Variety of Foods
Do you want your little one to enjoy all the foods the rest of the family likes? Do you worry you'll have a toddler who only wants mac and cheese or hot dogs? Learn how to use developmental windows of opportunity (heightened fascination with colorful objects and the tendency to put everything in her mouth)to encourage a life-long appreciation of the foods of your culture.
Intuitive Intelligence Comes of Age
Children with intuitive intelligence, challenged by cultural systems which do not know how to connect with or teach them, need permission to follow their personal path and optimize their talent. We can give that permission and model it for them by developing our intuitive parenting.
Five Ways to Discover If Your Child Is Intuitive
Every child has the capacity for high intutive intelligence just as each could be a musical maestro or a mathematical genius. Intuition is a natural intelligence that all children possess. Intuitive development depends on the environment, parental support, and education.
Tummy Time is Important
Tummy time is very important for any baby. While many babies don't like this position at first, you can encourage your baby by joining him or her on the floor, for playtime. Read "The Importance of Tummy Time" to learn more.
Building Baby's Brain
Starting from the moment of conception, a child's brain is wired by his or her environment, which includes the thoughts, attitudes, and behavior of his or her parents. Read "Building Baby's Brain: Parenting from Conception through Infancy" to learn more.
High Risk Kids
QUESTION
Hi Dr. Laura,
My husband and I are seriously considering assuming permanent guardianship for 3 young children, and particularly the youngest. Their mother is a foster-sister. Here are details:Children are 16 months, 2½ and 4.
Their mom is a little slow mentally.
She breastfed each to age one or so.
The children have been shifted around once they hit toddler age.
There is obvious developmental delay.
They don't mind going with unfamiliar people, but do panic if you put on your coat. It is as if they're afraid you will leave without them.What Does Your Child Really ''Know'' About ''No''?
Around the age of one, children enter the "me do it" stage. This is when they develop a sense of autonomy vs. doubt and shame. Two through six heralds the development of a sense of initiative vs. guilt. This means it is their developmental job to explore and experiment.
Building Baby's Brain: Parenting from Conception through Infancy
"From the journey down the birth canal to afternoons at the park, a child will register every experience in the circuitry of his or her brain. Whenever a mother strokes her baby, whenever a father plays with his daughter or son...
Wiring a Child's Brain: Key Parenting Points
As we now know, we can no longer separate the mind from the body, or nature from nurture. Even more important, our new knowledge will change the way we parent and teach the young.
Baby Builders' Developmental Milestones
The first year of life is an exciting and challenging time in your baby's life. He will go through many changes physically, emotionally and mentally. Here is a list of developmental milestones for gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and speech/language development that are typically seen during a baby's first year.
Building Baby's Brain: What Parents Can Do
Until recently we believed that there wasn't much we could do to help the brain develop. Most people believed that a child's genes determined a basic level of intelligence, and little could be done to change it after birth. Now we know that the brain does a lot of developing after birth.
Choosing the Right Toy
Research indicates that stimulating age-appropriate toys will help children to more fully develop their physical, cognitive and creative abilities. If you've browsed the aisles of any toy store lately you probably know that selecting the right toy can be a difficult undertaking.
Recognizing Delayed Motor Skills
Recognizing developmental delay early on is extremely important. Can you depend on health care providers to recognize delays or other indications of abnormal development? Actually, they depend on YOU! Since you have the ability to observe your child on a regular basis.
Building Baby's Brain: Ten Myths
Many of our old ideas about the brain are being challenged. We now know that a baby's brain is not completely wired at birth. The basic brain cells exist at birth, but most of the connections among cells are made during infancy and childhood.
Five Ways to Discover If Your Child Is Intuitive
Every child has the capacity for high intutive intelligence just as each could be a musical maestro or a mathematical genius. Intuition is a natural intelligence that all children possess. Intuitive development depends on the environment, parental support, and education.
The Third Month: Older Children
Your baby's permanent eye color begins to form this month. His eyesight is also greatly improved. He has received lots of attention by the third month, and that's good. Do you have older children in the home? How are they doing?
Preemies: Coming Home, A Month-to-Month Guide
Congratulations you have your baby home! You will now be amazed as you watch your baby grow and develop. Your doctor will use the idea of "corrected age". What you have to remember is to also use the baby's "corrected age."
Building Baby's Brain: What Child Care Can Do
Where a child receives care is less important than the quality of care she receives. Lots of research has examined the necessary conditions in children's care arrangements, whether by parents or child-care providers, that help children grow up healthy and happy.
Intuitive Intelligence Comes of Age
Children with intuitive intelligence, challenged by cultural systems which do not know how to connect with or teach them, need permission to follow their personal path and optimize their talent. We can give that permission and model it for them by developing our intuitive parenting.
- Antidepressants and Nursing
- Attachment Parenting: Create Connection
- Baby Builders' Developmental Milestones
- Baby's Development: The First Year
- Baby's Seventh Month: Traveling
- Building Baby's Brain
- Building Baby's Brain: Parenting from Conception through Infancy
- Building Baby's Brain: Ten Myths
- Building Baby's Brain: The Basics
- Building Baby's Brain: What Child Care Can Do
- Building Baby's Brain: What Parents Can Do
- Choosing the Right Toy
- Creative Tips from Baby Minds - Birth to 24 Months
- Five Ways to Discover If Your Child Is Intuitive
- Foster Your Child's Creativity
- Getting Baby Used to a Variety of Foods
- High Risk Kids
- Intuitive Intelligence Comes of Age
- Kid's Activity: Dexterity, Balance, and Fun!
- Overview: Fetal Development


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