Diaper changing and dressing time can be really hard with very active children. Here are some tips: Sometimes it hurts Children with diaper rash can be resistant to diaper changing time not only when they have a rash, but because of the memory of a rash. Treat it early, treat it thoroughly and see your Read More
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Help Your Child Build Resilience
Resilience is the ability to “bounce back” despite hardship. We have all been through some degree of hardship these last few years. Not only have our “regular” lives continued on with all their related stressors, they’ve been accompanied by the discordant soundtrack of a pandemic. How can you nurture your child’s resilience? Have Hope There Read More
Toddlers and Waiting
You’re trying to finish a phone call or have stopped to chat with someone you met while out shopping. This is the very moment your toddler decides they desperately need your attention! So, you say, “Wait–I’m busy.” This often causes an escalation of attention seeking behavior because toddlers don’t yet know how to “wait.” What Read More
No Such Thing As Back To Normal
Fostering security and joy in the new school year for elementary students and their families We said it last fall, and we have to say it again: this year, everything is different. Many children are in-person this school year with teachers and classmates for the first time in 18 months. But the time off was Read More
Hold and Reach
Encourage Infant Hand and Arm Use You make a difference in your baby’s development! Most babies are unable to reach for objects in the first 3 months of life. If you have participated in Parent Trust’s developmental screening program and have done a 4-month screening, you may remember an activity of holding a dangling toy Read More
Music for Sleep…Maybe Not
Parents truly appreciate the importance of a good night’s sleep. A recent experiment shows that listening to music before bed-contrary to much current advice-can actually reduce your quality of sleep. The study focused on the phenomenon of “earworms”–when a song or tune plays over and over again in a person’s mind. Although this typically happens Read More