Toddlers "toddle" for only a few weeks. By the time they are 18 months old, they are running, dashing, plummeting headlong into their environment---testing, tasting, clawing, groping, eyeballing,...
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...
Growth and development
Every child is an individual. He or she grows and develops at his or her own rate. Two children in the same family are no exception. One may walk at 9 months, but the other may not walk until the...
Bathing
> Neither phone nor doorbell nor barking dog should distract you when > bathing your baby. You do not have to bathe your baby every day (three times a week is fine), and bath time does not have to...
Sleeping
During the first few weeks, your baby will probably sleep from feeding to feeding. But as the baby gets older, sleep time diminishes. At first the baby is awake more during one part of the day....
I can pretend
In one single day or even in an hour, I can pretend to be as many me's as I want to be. I can pretend to be a movie star, an artist, a teacher, a doctor, an inventor. I can pretend that I am anywhere...
Speaking, listening, watching
I speak in many ways. I speak with words most of the time. But sometimes I just speak with sounds that aren't words. And sometimes I let my actions speak for me. I don't just hear---I listen. My...
Learning to listen
My ears can hear dozens---maybe even hundreds---of sounds all at the same time. All around me are the sounds of animals, things, nature, and people. If I really heard all these sounds at the same...
My senses guide me
> I see The circle of my world grows wider every day. But I always remain at the center of my world. Each time I move, my circle moves. I can move across, down into, or above the ground....
The first day
> The first time I went to school, my mother walked with me. > At school, I learned many things, including the names of colors. Going to school on the first day of the new school year is always...