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  • Baby's Development: The First Year

    This year is an exciting period of "firsts" -- first smile, first laugh, first successful grasp, first word, first step...

  • Buying Baby Toys for Dummies

    When shopping for toys for your little one, things can get a little crazy. The “products” that companies are calling toys these days can be baffling to even the most progressive mommies and daddies.

  • Top Ten Tummy Time Tips

    Tummy time strengthens baby's core muscle, but it may not be all sunshine and smiles. Is your baby offended? Are your nerves frazzled? Here are a few tricks that may make tummy time more enjoyable for you both.

  • Why Kids Misbehave

    When children misbehave, our gut reaction is to do whatever we can to stop it and stop it fast! There are big problems with this approach. Instead of reacting, have your response focus on the core issue and teach the child how to resolve that core issue through positive behavior.

  • Playing with Your Eight-Month-Old Baby

    Your eight-month-old baby is rapidly learning about her world. How can you help? With games! Read on for ideas your little one will enjoy.

  • Your Two-Month-Old

    Your two-month-old has adjusted to life outside the womb and is ready to take on the world! Cause and effect...he hits a mobile and it moves. He calls and you look. He smiles and you smile back. This month is all about empowerment. Your baby is discovering that he can make things happen!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Baby's Development: The First Year

    This year is an exciting period of "firsts" -- first smile, first laugh, first successful grasp, first word, first step...

  • The Play's the Thing (Playing With Baby)

    Your toddler hasn't shown any interest in playing with other children. In fact, you've noticed that he'd rather play quietly with his blocks in the corner than join in any group activities. Should you be concerned? Read on for the answer and a list of important milestones to watch for on the play front.

  • Antidepressants and Nursing

    For a nursing mother, making the decision to take medicine to treat this depression is tricky. We know some medicines are not safe to take when nursing; others are okay. For most medicines, there is not enough known to do better than make an educated guess. Most of the antidepressants fall into this last category.

  • 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.

  • Six Easy Everyday Strategies to Raise Your Child's IQ

    Many people believe that intelligence is static; either you're smart or you're not. But it turns out that intelligence is like a muscle: it can be developed with use. What's more, if you believe that's true, your brain has more potential!

  • Top Ten Tummy Time Tips

    Tummy time strengthens baby's core muscle, but it may not be all sunshine and smiles. Is your baby offended? Are your nerves frazzled? Here are a few tricks that may make tummy time more enjoyable for you both.

  • Your Body's Changes and Baby's Growth: 21 - 24 weeks

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    Your baby's skin is pink to reddish in color and wrinkled. Although the baby is thin, his/her movements are becoming stronger. The baby's eyes are closed, however he is capable of crying. The brain is undergoing rapid growth.

  • Creative Tips from Baby Minds - Birth to 24 Months

    Your baby's brain is primed to intake a great deal of information. Author Linda Acredo of Baby Minds presents several creative suggestions for stimulating your baby's development at age appropriate levels.

  • 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.

  • Playing with Your Eight-Month-Old Baby

    Your eight-month-old baby is rapidly learning about her world. How can you help? With games! Read on for ideas your little one will enjoy.