{While offering choices can help ease transitions, giving toddlers too many choices can be overwhelming to them. A few ideas (and research) to consider for toddler parenting.} If you’re the parent of a toddler, you’ve probably heard this advice at least 100 times: “give your child choices so they will feel empowered and less likely […]
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Toddler Development: A Research-Based Guide for Parents
Toddlerhood can be a challenging time for both parents and kids. Understanding more about toddler development can help guide you through this period with insight into your child and hopefully a bit more patience. Toddler Social-Emotional Development Why the Moral Development of Toddlers Matters for All of Us Toddlers Have Big Emotions. Insight from Research […]
Executive Functioning Skills: The New Research that Convinced Me to be a Soccer Mom Dropout
{How new research on executive functioning skills and unstructured play in kids made me feel better about being a soccer mom dropout} My oldest son is 8 and is one of the few in his class that is not involved in soccer…and never has been. GASP! It hasn’t really been an intentional choice on our […]
The Parenting Hack We All Know (but here’s how to use it more effectively)
{We often hear that giving kids choices empowers them and helps our parenting lives go smoother. While true, offering kids choices also involves some mindfulness on the part of parents.} Parenting confession: I have given up shoe shopping with my kids. Yes, my kids still get new shoes when needed but traditional shoe shopping is […]
