For information on growth in height and weight during these years, see in For Special Consideration. Dental care During the preschool period, your child should visit the dentist. Arrange with your...
Common concerns
The preschool period can be a happy time in family life, free from overwhelming problems. One reason for this is that preschool children can do so much more for themselves. They can be independent...
You and your toddler
Parents of toddlers must act as the grand marshals of a parade. Noisy exhibitions of exuberant fury must somehow be channeled and controlled. Toddlers need rules to follow, just as marching bands in...
Health and safety
Accidents One function of parents is to prevent their children from hurting themselves in a dangerous world. A toddler's all-embracing habit of getting into everything needs its rightful outlets,...
The toddler’s education
Toddlers at play are really at work coping with their environment. They think they have complete control, but they learn that many things are immovable (walks, trees, cement). They also learn that...
Parent vs. toddler
Toddlers constantly play games in which they test the physical properties of their environment. They confirm the law of gravity, the stickiness of juice, the wetness of water, and the heat of flame....
You and your baby
The coming of a baby into a home is bound to cause a certain amount of conflict. From time to time, mixed feelings are aroused in parents as well as in brothers and sisters. Most fathers of first...
Common concerns
Spoiling Young infants cannot be spoiled by too much love and attention. From the parents' response to their needs, they learn to feel secure and develop good relationships with their parents. The...
About loving
There's Grandma, Grandpa, Dad and Mother, special grown-ups . . . my sister . . . my brother . . . my doll. . . my bike . . . my brand-new shoes . . . a very best friend I choose . . . ...
Whom will I look like?
I have been growing ever since that time. Sometimes I wonder whom I will look like when I grow up. Will I look like my father? Will I be as tall as he is? Will I look like my mother? Will I have...