Category: Toddler Parenting
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Is Your Toddler Attached to a Lovey, Security Object, or Blanket?
Is your child attached to a certain stuffed animal, lovey, or a blanket? Do they love to carry it around every where they go? Most toddlers go through a phase where they are attached to a a stuffed animal, lovey, or blanket. They want to take their security object with them everywhere that they go.…
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Working Moms: Daycare Arrangements Need to Be Made Before Your Baby is Born
Are you planning on returning to work after your maternity leave is over? If so, you need to begin thinking about where you want your child to go to daycare at while you are at work. In fact, you need to begin your researching your options roughly five or six months ahead of time to…
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What to Expect When Your Child Is Getting Two Year Molars?
Today my youngest got to spend the day with me, he started running a low grade fever last night and acted like he didn’t feel very good. I decided that is was best to keep him home from daycare so that he could get some extra rest while I monitored his fever. It was nice…
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Ring Around the Rosie: Learn The Truth Behind This Popular Nursery Rhyme and Game
Do you remember playing Ring Around the Rosie as a child? I do! I remember playing this game when I was fairly young. When my son came home from daycare a few days ago saying “posies, posies” while grabbing his older brother’s hand. I was trying to figure out what he was talking about. My…
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Teaching Your Toddler How to Have Good Manners: Please and Thank You
Do you want your child to be polite in public? Do you want them to say “please” and “thank you” when they are offered things? If so, it is important that you begin teaching your child how to have appropriate manners early on. In fact, the earlier you begin teaching your child the better off…
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Hearing Aids Were an Epic Fail – My Daughter’s Story
I moved from Texas to North Carolina, when my daughter was almost 5 months old. It took us about a month to get settled into our new home. After we got settle it was time to begin determining what the next step was to correct my daughter’s hearing loss. Being new to the area, I…
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Why Do Puzzles Make Great Learning Tools?
Yesterday when I went to pick up my son from daycare, he was playing and having a great time. The teacher was letting all of the kids in his classroom play with puzzles and my son was trying very hard to get the puzzle pieces into the right spot. It was fun to watch him…
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13 Signs that Your Toddler Is Ready to Start Potty Training
A few weeks ago, I decided that it was time to let my son pick out a potty seat. We choose to get a potty seat that easily fits on the regular toilet, so that I wouldn’t have to retrain him to use the big potty once he had potty training down. Besides that the…
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4 Alternative Ways to Discipline Your Toddler or Young Child
If you don’t like using time out to discipline your toddler or young child, there are other forms of discipline that may work better for you and your family or you can use a combination of discipline methods. Remember that each child responds differently to discipline methods. One child may respond to a variety of discipline methods, while another…
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How to Make Time Out an Effective Way to Modify Your Child’s Unwanted Behaviors
My son stayed home with me again today so that he could continue to heal and so that I could make sure that he was fever free before sending him back to daycare. He acts like he is feeling much better today and his fever finally broke last night. Thank goodness, I don’t like it…