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Toddlers

Learn how to navigate toddlerhood with connection, empathy, and clear limits. Discover practical guidance for discipline, tantrums, aggression, sleep, potty learning, emotional development, and everyday life with your growing toddler.

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Dear Dad: The Screen Talk Nobody's Having With You

Your child was fine twenty minutes ago. Now they're on the floor, screaming about a video game. This isn't a discipline problem — and there's something every dad needs to...

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The Hidden Cost of Checking Your Phone

Even brief phone checks during time with your child affect their stress response and behavior. Here's what the studies actually say--and how to reconnect.

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Tantrums: What’s Really Going On—and What to Do

Tantrums aren’t misbehavior—they’re overwhelm. Learn what’s really going on and how to respond so your child calms down and builds self-regulation over time.

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Cozy Corners and Co-regulation to Calm Your Child

Use time-ins, a cozy corner and co-regulation to help your child calm those big emotions. This is simply a comforting place where people in your home go to calm down.

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Brushing Teeth: Enforcing Limits Without Force

Brushing Teeth: How Can You Enforce Limits If You Don’t Use Force? Should you hold your child down to brush? Isn't brushing non-negotiable, like other health and safety?

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What's Wrong with Timeouts?

Timeouts ARE punishment, not any different than when you were made to stand in the corner as a child.

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Teaching Kids To Share

We all want our children to be generous. But that isn't what they learn from forced sharing. Try self-regulated turns, which also strengthens sibling bonds.

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Books About the New Baby for Older Siblings

Great books, many with the theme of an ambivalent older sibling coming to love the new arrival, which is a great model to give older kids.

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When Your Older Child Hits the Little One: A Script

Did your toddler or preschooler just hit their little sibling? Of course you see red! Here's your script to intervene -- and prevent a recurrence!