Toddlerhood

All of us have a limit for the amount of patience we have each day. When it is gone, there is no getting it back. As adults we can feel when our breaking point is coming. Our body signals...

  "Mommy, you yelled at me. You said, 'Get back in your bed!' and you put me in my bed and walked away. And it made me sad. And I wanted to walk away from you. And I...

Spring has finally arrived and soon we will be feeling the warmth of the sun (hopefully more consistently than 1-2 days a week), while being surrounded by colorful flowers and listening to the laughter that fills the air as...

Travel with young children is no easy task, especially when said kiddo is a teething toddler who just learned the powerful world no and somehow can shriek it in three different languages. That’s no, nein, and nee, for those keeping...

When the troublemaker in your toddler starts misbehaving in public, you can only hope to be fully armed and prepared. The hard part is you are trying to do this in a way that helps your young toddler cope...

Last Friday, I dropped my son (5) off at pre-school at 9am and then headed to run a few errands with my two littler ones (3 and 1).  We went a few places, stopped home for a bit (where they...

It’s finally March, the month where the color green returns to the landscape around us. Little signs of spring are beginning to come out of hiding and St. Patrick’s Day is on the horizon. Not only is St. Patrick’s...

A few weeks back, I wrote my first post in what I am considering to be a brief, hopefully helpful "series" of child speech and language development. For more information on what you should see in your two-year-old, please...

“Hey Grant it’s time to leave for school,” I tell him. As I make my way to him, strategically avoiding LEGOS and action figures, I can see he’s about to lose it. He breaks out of his toy trance...

It’s about that time to start switching my little one from a bottle to a sippy cup.  We have not practiced much with sippies.  To be honest, I’ve been lazy.  But I have a reason. Sippy cups DRIVE. ME. CRAZY!!! First of...