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Parenting Your Child's Temperament: Part One
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Learning to understand and accept your child's temperament can dramatically impact how each trait will manifest itself.
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Parenting Your Child's Temperament: Part Two
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Part one lent insight to understanding your child's temperament. Here the focus is on creating an effective parenting style for harmonious family relationships.
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Toddler Demands at the Store
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How to put limits on your toddler in shopping situations by developing a plan and adhering to it.
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Chores for Little Helpers
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Your toddler really can help around the house! Here's some tasks they can do with just a little training.
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Properly Fitting Toddlers With Shoes
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Toddler Steps: Ensuring your child's shoes fit correctly can help prevent lifelong foot problems.
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Public Scrutiny
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It's never fun when your toddler has a tantrum in the grocery or outside the home, but using these techniques can help you keep it from happening again.
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Toddlers Who Interrupt
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Strategies to reduce the number of situations in which your child interrupts your conversations.
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Behavior Makeover for Back Talk
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A customized plan to stop back talk as soon as it starts--when children are toddlers.
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It's Never Too Early To Learn
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Simple steps for a caring parent or caregiver to find many "teachable moments" in the everyday play of babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
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The Patient Parent
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Patience: We run out of it, lose it, wish we had more of it. It can make the difference between harmony and discord in family life. It's also a choice you can learn.
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Timeouts Revisited
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A great deal of controversy surrounds the subject of timeouts.
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Understanding Baby’s First Language
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New parents quickly learn to translate baby's crying as a means of communication.
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Stick with a Bedtime Routine
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Babies find it much more reassuring to say good night with a familiar ritual.
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Babies in Toyland
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Learn how babies first play with toys and get safety tips for toys that will delight and amuse your little one.
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Redirecting Aggression
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How to recognize and stop aggressive behavior in your toddler, before it becomes a problem.
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Introducing Discipline
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The whats, whens, and hows of disciplining your young child.
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Mom-Tested Teething Advice
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Our teething advice will help you take a bite out of this often painful milestone.
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All About Time-Outs
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The whys and hows of executing an effective time-out.
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When Should You Start Disciplining?
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An age-by-age guide to setting limits for your littl one.
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Coping with Toddler Frustration
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What to do if your toddler has more will than skill.
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Firsts for First-Time Moms
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Parenting firsts can be intimidating for novice moms and dads. Use this handy guide to help you overcome your uncertainty and meet those first parenting challenges with confidence.
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Winning the War on Whining
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Like nails on a chalkboard, whining can drive even the most patient parents crazy. Yet understanding what causes whining and learning simple strategies can help you stop this irritating habit.
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Managing Your Child's Anger
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A child's world is colored by emotional mood shifts. Although it is normal for children to experience anger, parents play an important role in positively channeling those feelings.
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Bedtime Rituals and Routines
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With fanfare and flourish, a designer kiss or a bear hug, here are some bedtime exchanges that are sure to enrich your child's memory bank—right along with your relationship.
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Stop Yelling! Get Kids to Listen without Raising Your Voice
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Feel like you're just not communicating with your child? Try using these techniques to express your own feelings more successfully and teach your child how to better express himself, too.
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Read Your Children a Story—and Boost Their Brainpower
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Reading aloud to infants and toddlers is beneficial in many ways, from hearing spoken language to feeling a heartbeat next to theirs. Literacy experts say that young children interact with books and reading in different ways at different ages. Here is a guide to your child's reading habits from birth to age two and beyond.
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Setting Boundaries for Your Toddler
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Setting limits from the beginning in a reasonable, loving way will help a child develop a sense of responsibility and self-control that will serve him or her well all through life.
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Care of the Umbilical Cord
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The umbilical cord, though not the most attractive feature your newborn sports, will heal, dry and eventually fall off, leaving an adorable belly button. Learn how to take care of it.
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Weaning from Nursing
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Learn some of the top physical weaning issues that breastfeeding moms face and find answers to make it a smoother process for everyone involved.
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Get Ready for Preschool Crafts
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Turn play into learning with these fun crafts that work on cutting, pasting, thinking and planning. Use them over and over again to reinforce skills such as number and letter recognition.
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Men @ Work
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Juggling a job and kids is not just a mom's issue. Now a new generation of fathers is struggling to make room for family in a work-obsessed culture.
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"I Need a Break!"
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How moms of toddlers can chill out and get a restorative break now and then.
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Music for Babies
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Music can be soothing for both you and your little one. And singing to babies seems to come natural to many people.
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Coping With Frustration
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While toddlers can imagine themselves doing anything, real life thwarts them at every turn. Learn ways to ease your toddlers' aggravations.
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Boys' Story
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Is all that racing, wrestling and roughhousing just a guy thing?
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Girly Girls
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A no-frills look at the princess phase.
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Learning to Comfort Your Baby
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During countless transition times, comfort items and soothing routines can provide your baby with a sense of security.
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Saving Memories
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Your baby's first years are filled with moments and mementos you'll want to save and cherish. Get ideas on how to keep them.
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Staying Organized with a New Baby
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Whether you were Tidy McOrganized pre-parenthood or Clutter Von Leave-It-Lie, here are some tips to help you stay organized with a baby in the house.
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Time-Saving Tips for Busy New Moms
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These time-tested, mother-approved tips offer help for busy new moms!
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Boredom Busters
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Keep your list of "Boredom Busters" fresh and at the ready. Rediscover your own "inner child" and go play!
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Tips for Traveling with Baby
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Is a trip in your baby's future? Discover tips to ensure safe and joyful journeys.
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Understanding Diapers & Avoiding Diaper Mishaps
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Knowing the diaper basics will help you choose the right diaper and avoid diaper mishaps.
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Managing the Messes (While Still Having Fun!)
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Ideas for managing the inevitable spills, smears, and stickiness that come with babies and toddlers.
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Make the Most of Summer Fun with Your Little One
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Ideas that'll help you and your baby thrive this summer..
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Pain Relief Primer
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When kissing it better isn't enough, we've got answers for picking the right over-the-counter medications for your little one.
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Eating out with Toddlers: Tips for Family Fine Dining
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Eating out with toddlers doesn't have to be a nightmare. Try these great tips to make your restaurant experiences more palatable.
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Why Tutoring Your Toddler is Smart Parenting
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Wondering how best to encourage your toddler's desire for learning and growing curiosity? Discover tips on how best to enrich your child's learning through everyday activities and play.
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Taking the Plunge: Helping Your Child Overcome the Fear of Water
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For some children, the thought of being splashed in the face or going under water creates feelings of dread and panic. Learn how to help your child be comfortable in the water, and overcome related fears.
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Establishing Healthy Rules and Routines
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Successfully balancing routine and flexibility can be a challenge. Although routine has its place and need in a child's life, it can also become too much of a good thing.
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Helping Siblings Deal with a Newly Mobile Baby
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Your baby's off and running (or scooting or crawling)—but how does his big sister feel about it? Use these tips for keeping the peace once Baby enters his sibling's precious territory.
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What's Up, Baby? Your Child's Baffling Behaviour
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How to tackle your tot's trying tricks
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Whatever Gets You Through The Night
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Parents who survived night waking tell it like it was
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I Hate Tummy Time!
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Tips and tricks to get baby on her belly
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Food Jags and Temper Tantrums
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Why babies do what they do
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Have Baby, Will Travel
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Ideas for travelling with small children from the real experts - parents
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"You're Not the Boss of Me!"
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What to do when your preschooler refuses to cooperate
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The Sandbox
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The high appeal of low-tech play
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Spoiled!
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You heard it from the in-laws the first time you picked up your crying baby. How did the s-word become the most loaded term in parenting?
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Early Lessons in Hygiene and Self Care
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Encouraging your toddler's skills in hygiene, feeding and more.
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Keeping Your House Clean with Baby on the Go
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As your baby starts getting into everything, keeping the house clean.
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How to Encourage Your Toddler's Imagination
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Ideas for helping encouraging our toddler's growing imagination.
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3 Strategies for Better Baby Sleep
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Is getting baby to sleep the stuff dreams are made of? These bedtime strategies worked for real parents.
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8 Ways to Be a Better Parent
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Good news: It's the little things that really make a difference. Here's help from top parenting experts and a few real moms.
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How to Praise Your Children
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Good words for good deeds: seems basic, right? Turns out there are some powerful strategies for using your words wisely.
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The Grateful Child
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Get tips on how to teach your child the art of appreciation and importance of saying thank you.
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Top 10 Beneficial Parenting Tricks -- and You're Doing Them
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Feel like you're bumbling through motherhood? Relax -- it's the little things you do that make a big impact on your child.
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Teaching Your Toddler the Alphabet
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Toddlers come to learn about the ABCs through rhyme, rhythm and repetition. Get ideas to help your child make the connections while having fun.
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Valuable Lessons: Teaching Toddlers About Responsibility
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Toddlers don't understand the concept but they can grasp the idea of helping and caring for others. Find out how you can help your little one learn how to be responsible little by little.
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Toddlers, Development and Discipline
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It's absolutely normal for a child to throw a temper tantrum. Get tips on the right reaction and how to choose your battles to teach life skills.
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Your Toddler's First Haircut
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Get tips for turning Baby's first haircutting experience into a fun and valued memory.
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Toddling Into the Classroom
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The decision about when to start your toddler in preschool is a personal choice. Here are some general guidelines to help you assess readiness and tips on how to prepare your child.
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Bathtime Battles
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Tub-side tricks for toddlers who hate baths.
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