Baby
Surviving Your 12-Month-Old
A frustrated mom needs advice on helping with her now whiny, screechy, grabby, and TOTALLY NORMALLY BEHAVING one-year-old. We have recommendations.
Toddler
The Best Way to Handle a Toddler’s Drop-off Anxiety
A parent needs advice on how to handle her toddler’s separation anxiety while dropping her off at daycare. Amalah has advice.
Toddler
The Eyeglasses-Grabbing Toddler
How do you help your toddler from grabbing and throwing your eyeglasses? They think it’s a game. We have some advice.
Toddler
Toddlers and Hair-Trigger Tantrums
A mom has needs more ideas after trying lots of ideas to prevent him from quickly melting down into epic tantrums.
Parenting
Playground Thunderdome
What’s the best way to react to toddler fights and aggression on the playground…especially if the offender isn’t your child?
Young Child
The Hangry Preschooler (and Fighting Off Temper Tantrums)
My young child is an attention-seeking mess during the witching hour before dinner. I need help with this behavior issue.
Toddler
Hands Are Not For Hitting (Your Sibling)
How to help your young toddler understand that it’s not okay to hit his older sibling for fun or to get attention. We have advice on helping both kids in this situation.
Toddler
Daycare Runaway
Parents need help assessing whether they are over- or underreacting to what seems to be an isolated daycare incident with their toddler.
Toddler
When Your Child Can’t Talk (and You Don’t Know What to Say About That)
How does one handle the unwarranted comments and advice you get about your speech-delayed child? We have experience and thoughts.
Toddler
Tension Release in Toddlers
Parents are trying to discern if they should address or ignore their toddler’s new and loud, but innocuous emotions. Amalah has some definitive views on the subject.
Toddler
The Super-Early Sleep Regression
A mom needs help deciphering her toddler’s nighttime sleep problem. Is this a sleep regression and what should she do about it?
Toddler
The Daycare Biter
A toddler is coming home repeatedly with bite marks from a daycare classmate. Mom needs advice on next steps she should take to stop the incidences.
Toddler
Another Case of New Sibling Sleep Regression
What does new sibling sleep regression look like, how do you handle it, what are the pitfalls and more advice?
Relationships
Neighborly Playdate Welcome Mat vs. Door Mat
A mom needs help navigating neighborly social waters after a brushoff because of bad playdates and clinginess which was taken personally by the other parents. Is a cordial relationship possible?
Toddler
Toddler Mealtime Battles: The Dinner Table Escape Artist
How do you handle a toddler who is a good eater but seeking negative attention at mealtime now that there is a new sibling in the picture?
Toddler
Toddler Suction Plates, Bowls and Mats That Your Kid Might Not Be Able To Throw Across the Room
Does your toddler like to throw his/her plate off the table? We review some of the most popular suction plates, bowls and placemats and tell you which are best.
Toddler
Moving With a Toddler
What to expect when you are moving homes and you have a toddler.
Toddler
The New Sibling Regression: Aggression & Defiance
Parents have gone back to work after their paternity and maternity leaves and are concerned that their older toddler daughter is too aggressive with her new sibling and has been generally too defiant. Is this new behavior something to be concerned about or typical given the changes at home?
Toddler
How to Build a Behavior Chart for Your Toddler
A mom wants to start a behavior reward chart for her toddler with whom she’s been working on staying in her own bed all night. At what age do you start one and how do you begin?
Toddler
Toddler Fears: The Dreaded Nail Clippers
A toddler is irrationally fearful of having her finger and toe nails clipped. Her parents have tried everything. What else can they do to help her over this fear?