by Elizabeth Pantley author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007)
If you ask parents to list the most frustrating discipline problems during early childhood, you would find that these three items appear on every list. They are so common that I call them The Big Three. All children master their own version of these behaviors [...]
Tags: choices, control, distract, eye-to-eye, feelings, fussing, imagination, Parenting, prevent, tantrums, teach, Toddlers, validate, whining
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by Alan M. Hess
Strange as it may sound, boredom promotes happier, creative kids who are better problem solvers. When children use their own creativity with unstructured play, they find ways to amuse themselves — even if it means simply daydreaming.
That’s the advice of child development expert, Alan M. Hess who wants to see American children [...]
Tags: bored, boredom, child, good, happiness, happy, imagination, limits, Parenting, play
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by: Barbara De Oliveira
When children start to walk more steadily, run, push, pull, climb and grab things – they are growing from infants to toddlers. Between their first and second birthdays, they are self centered and get busy doing various things like – to flip light switches, pour things in and out of containers, unwrap [...]
Tags: Baby, baby einstein, child, Education, educational, imagination, little tykes, stimulate, toys
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