Parenting

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), about 3500 infant deaths occur yearly when babies are asleep. Some of these deaths happen due to accidental strangulation or suffocation. As parents, we want to ensure that our kids are warm at night. But there is also the risk of suffocation due to wrapping the child...

When you bring your little bundle of joy home to the nursery, it’s hard to believe that one day you’ll be talking about moving him into a toddler bed. Time flies, though, and here you are. Now you may be wondering just how to navigate the transition from crib to toddler bed. Transitioning a child...

Almost all parents will experience their child having a fear of the dark at some point. This common fear is only natural for many young children as their imaginative abilities expand before their abilities to separate fantasy from reality.  Luckily, there are plenty of ways to help your child overcome their fear of the dark....

Child emotional development is a key process that takes place differently for all children. The emotional development that starts as a child can affect you into your adolescence and adulthood, which is why it’s important to understand the factors that make up child emotional development. This article provides a brief overview of early childhood development...

I bet all parents have faced the perplexing moment when they apply a disciplinary activity and it suddenly backlashes. And we’re talking about those minutes of tantrums after sending the little rascal to a time-out. So, like many others, you might be wondering “isn’t a time-out meant to quiet my kid down?”  Why, then, does...