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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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Toddler Discipline: What Every Parent Needs to Know

Learn how to discipline your toddler with connection, empathy, and clear limits. Discover why toddlers behave the way they do and how to handle tantrums, defiance, hitting, and other challenging...

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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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How to Prepare Your Child for the New Baby

If you're pregnant and have another child (or two), here are some tips to reduce sibling rivalry and foster a close sibling bond right from the start.

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Preparing Your Child for the Separation While You Birth the New Baby

If you're worried about leaving your older child when you give birth to your baby, here's your gameplan to best prepare them AND set your mind at ease.

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14 Tips for Gentle Weaning

Moving gently toward weaning in a way that empowers your child. Here are 14 tips to help you get started...

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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!

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Easing the Transition to the Toddler Bed

So your toddler is giving up the crib? Or moving out of the family bed? How to help your toddler learn to fall asleep in the new big-kid bed without...

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Easy Child-Led Potty Learning

The truth about toilet training is that if the child is ready, it happens easily. If not, a power struggle ensues. Here's how to avoid a power struggle.

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Feeding Your Toddler

Even more important than what your toddler puts in his mouth is his basic relationship with food. You want him to be in charge of his own eating.