Tag Archives: Toddler

Establishing Healthy Sleep Patterns for Babies All babies are different, so determining what a “normal” sleep schedule is can be difficult. However, there are certain guidelines that should help you figure out if your child has healthy sleep patterns and these change from age to age.

Get Outside with Your Toddler: Explore Nature Summertime can be a challenging season for a parent of a toddler. These little creatures are exploring boundaries and testing limitations so venturing outside is often a game of cat and mouse: chasing and herding and basically acting like your child’s shadow to ...

How to Get your Toddler Talking When a baby is born, they come with a couple of different means of communicating, but unfortunately speech is not one of them.  They communicate with body language, facial expressions, and crying.  They eventually learn how to use their eyes and how to giggle ...

How To Handle A Picky Eater Toddlers can be notoriously picky eaters and it usually starts when they turn a year old.  This is when they can start to feed themselves and choose what they want to eat.  One day they might eat everything in sight and the next day ...

Creative Ways to Say “No” to a Toddler If you have a toddler in your house, you know that the word “no” can cause an epic meltdown in less than three seconds. But the good news is that some meltdowns can be avoided if you get creative with how you ...

Making the Transition to Toddler Bed: How to Know When it’s Time As you watch your baby grow bigger and bigger each day, you keep track of all the lovely milestones they go through. The first word. The first steps. The first taste of solid food. The first tooth. All ...

Setting Expectations to Cut Down on Melt Downs   Young children get upset easily. It’s just a fact of life. Unless your child is perfect, there’s a good chance that he’s going to have a melt down when you tell him that playtime is over or when you tell him ...

How to Begin Helping Your Toddler Gain Social Skills As parents of toddlers, we tend to pressure ourselves to keep up with the families around us. We want to do what’s best for our kids so that they can be successful later in life, and one of the areas that ...

Choosing The Right Toddler Bedding Finding bedding that fits your toddler’s bed isn’t the easiest prospect in the world.  Most of the time, those tried and true crib sheets fit just fine but can be a little infantile for the toddler that is putting together complete sentences, potty training, and ...

How To Potty Train Your Toddler Potty training can be an overwhelming experience for any parent and toddler, but how can you tell if your child is ready to take that next big step in life and become potty trained?