If your toddler is a high-energy kid, restless all the time or can even get to the top of the refrigerator as Mary Sheedy Kurcinka describes, he/she is a “spirited” child. All toddlers say ‘no,’ too, but a spirited child’s ‘no’s!’ are louder and more frequent, his tantrums longer-lasting and more intense.
Although spirited kids are […]

Parents of toddlers are always stressed out when finding healthy foods to feed their picky eaters. Barbara Solomon experienced the same when she wanted to feed her 3 year old daughter. At last she found 10 smart choices of toddler favorite foods that even the finicky child won’t refuse. Best of all, Barbara got some […]

One of my friends, she is a mother of 3 kids (7, 5 and 2 1/2 now). The first two are easy eaters. Even when they were toddlers, whatever she’d put in front of them on the table, they’d finish the plate off and ask her whether they could have some more. But for the […]

Sandy, a mother to six kids shared that breakfast could be always messy when her children were learning to feed themselves. She’s finally tried out a simple way to solve the problem.
I mixed Cheerios, or whatever cereal was my child’s favorite, with yogurt because it helped the cereal stick to the spoon. My child was […]

Tanveer Badal has an eye-opening article on What Toddlers Eat Around the World, covering 11 countries: Japan, South Africa, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Turkey, Korea , Denmark, Sweden and India. What kids eat in other countries is so different from each other, and closely related to their traditions and available resources. Some may surprise you:
Japan – […]

Young kids cannot follow some routines simply because of lacking the concept of time. I found a free, well-designed website, Time-for-time.com on which kids would enjoy lots of interactive online games and quizzes about time. I like the info page about types of clocks: Sun Clocks, Water Clocks, Mechanical Clocks, Quartz Clocks, Atomic Clocks and […]

Scary times may come when an infant or toddler chokes. They are so curious and always put things in their mouths (sometimes their noses or ears too). Over at BabyCenter, some critical signals parents should be aware of when any accidents of choking happen:
If your baby is suddenly unable to cry or cough she […]

Some parents would have experienced embarrassment when their children throw a public tantrum in a store. How to tackle the problem? I think prevention is better than cure. Some methods I tried before and worked for my children:
1. Before going to any store, I would talk with my children where and what I would buy. […]

Some children whose primary love language is acts of service would be very sensitive to what their parents do for them. They may not remember everything that their parents did for them, especially those acts of feeding or changing diapers when they were babies. But they would remember some specific incidents that their parents helped […]

Would you like to receive gifts? No matter adults or children would like to receive as many gifts as possible. Most children beg for things they like too. But for those children, if their primary love language is receiving gifts, it is a different story though.
When we (Dr. Chapman & Ross Campbell) asked ten-year-old Rachel […]