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  • Top 10 Tot-Pleasing Play Dough Activities

    While creating critters and ropes, your child builds brain cells and connections. For some mind-molding fun, try these play dough activities.

  • Make Halloween Safe for Your Toddler

    Halloween + toddler = FUN. Don't let fear cast a dark shadow on your celebrations! Common sense rules and precautions can make your "haunted" home a safe delight for your whole family!

  • 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.

  • Eight Quick Tips to Raising an Adventurous Eater

    If you're the parent of an infant or toddler, you may not have encountered Picky Eating...yet. If you want kids who don't put up a fight every time every time a new dish or a vegetable is set before them -- start thinking now, in the early eating days, about your food and dining choices. It's not too early to put these eight quick tips in place.

  • Twelve Discipline Rules That Get Great Results

    Are you in the face of the toddler tantrums and sibling squabbles? Are you tired of the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach after you've yelled at your child? You're not alone. Child development expert, Kimberley Blaine offers parents positive discipline alternatives that will yield great results.

  • Feeding your Toddler

    Want to help your toddler develop healthy eating habits? Offer only healthy food. But even more important than what your child puts in his or her mouth is a healthy relationship with food.

  • Lunch Time with Toddlers

    Toddlers are often selective, predictable and stubborn. Here are some tips to make lunchtime fun for your toddler!

  • Tips on Getting Kids to Bed (and Keeping Them in Bed)

    What can you do to peacefully get your kids to go to bed at their scheduled bedtime?  And what can you do to help them stay tucked in bed?

  • Picky Eaters: Normal or Pathological?

    Picky eater? Toddlers by definition are often on the move. They frequently become skeptical of new foods and reject foods that they formerly seemed to enjoy. They may love something one day and reject it the next. How do you know if your picky eater is just exhibiting normal picky behavior or if you need professional assistance?

  • Toddler Tantrums and Meltdowns

    Tantrums are sure to be in the top of parents' list of "obnoxious kid behaviors" and when your kid uses this routine in public it's just plain humiliating.

  • Tips on Getting Kids to Bed (and Keeping Them in Bed)

    What can you do to peacefully get your kids to go to bed at their scheduled bedtime?  And what can you do to help them stay tucked in bed?

  • Loving Your Terrible, Terrific Toddler

    Toddlerhood can be a maddening time for parents. Your baby is growing into her own person. Your challenge is to keep your sanity and keep her safe. Your best strategy is to cultivate a great relationship with her and enjoy her emerging independence. How?

  • Why You Can't Get Anything Done?

    "Do I Have ADHD? I don't have a job. I'm home all day," you may tell yourself. As such, you think you should be able to complete a simple task like sorting through the bags of hand-me-downs your neighbor dropped off. But you can't get to it. What happened? What happened is that instead of accomplishing a big task...

  • Feeding your Toddler

    Want to help your toddler develop healthy eating habits? Offer only healthy food. But even more important than what your child puts in his or her mouth is a healthy relationship with food.

  • Top Ten Tips for Toddlers and Sleep

    Toddlers don't seem to have an off switch. Often, when they're tired, they just reverberate faster, like an overwound toy, until they crash. Reading your toddler's cues so you can ensure she gets enough sleep can be a challenge.

  • Bedtime Routines

    Most parents know the basic "5 B's" of bedtime routines: bath, brush teeth, bathroom, books, and bed. Our family, however, has invented many other fun (but not too physical) games that we've added to these basics. Because we frequently make bedtime fun, our children don't resist bedtime. Here are just a few games we've made up:

  • Twelve Discipline Rules That Get Great Results

    Are you in the face of the toddler tantrums and sibling squabbles? Are you tired of the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach after you've yelled at your child? You're not alone. Child development expert, Kimberley Blaine offers parents positive discipline alternatives that will yield great results.

  • Recognizing Dyslexia

    Individuals inherit the genetic links for dyslexia. Dyslexia affects males and females nearly equally, and people from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds as well. Symptoms of Dyslexia in the Preschooler include:

  • Word "No's" In The Positive

    Wording limits in the positive meets many goals of parenting: It increases the child's self-esteem, increases the parent's confidence, decreases the need for discipline or punishment, improves communication skills, increases cooperation, and teaches children self-control and how to practice power in positive ways. Learn how.

  • Signs Your Child Might Be Ready for Toilet Training

    The simple truth about toilet training is that if the child is ready, it happens very easily. If not, a power struggle often ensues -- and we all know that no one wins a parent-child power struggle. Bottom Line: Don't let toilet training become a struggle.