Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Is Not Eating at Daycare (US)
A teacher hands you back the lunchbox with most of it still in there, day after day. Or the daycare report says your toddler ate "two bites of pasta."...
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Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Is Not Eating at Daycare (UK)
A teacher hands you back the lunchbox with most of it still in there, day after day. Or the daycare report says your toddler ate "two bites of pasta."...
6 min read
Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Is Not Eating at Daycare (Global)
A teacher hands you back the lunchbox with most of it still in there, day after day. Or the daycare report says your toddler ate "two bites of pasta."...
6 min read
Family Life
How Visits to Extended Family Affect Young Children
Extended family visits offer children valuable relationships and exposure to family history and connection. However, these visits also disrupt routine...
5 min read
Parenting
How Life Changes After the Birth of a Child
The arrival of a first child is a monumental life event that ripples through every aspect of your existence. Yet while pregnancy is discussed at lengt...
3 min read
Parenting
How Children Experience Parental Separation
The most-cited longitudinal work on children of divorce — Mavis Hetherington's 30-year study — landed on a finding that surprised both sides of the po...
8 min read
Parenting
Blended Families: Building New Bonds
A new partner moves in, the kids meet them, everyone hopes for a Brady Bunch montage, and instead the first year is mostly tense dinners, loyalty conf...
7 min read
Family Life
Moving House With Young Children
A move is one of those events where the parent's project — find a place, sign the papers, hire movers, pack — runs on a totally different timeline tha...
7 min read
Family Life
Introducing a New Pet When You Have a Young Child
A new pet in a household with a young child is two large adjustments running at once: the pet learning your home, your child learning that a real anim...
8 min read
Family Life
What the First Month of a Newborn's Life Is Like
Nobody prepares you adequately for the first month. Not because the information doesn't exist, but because there's a category gap between reading abou...
6 min read
Emotions
Postpartum Adjustment: What Happens to a Mother's Mental Health
Most postpartum mental health conversations focus on depression. That focus is necessary, but it leaves a gap: the majority of new mothers don't devel...
3 min read
Emotions
Maternal Emotional State in the First Weeks After Childbirth
The first weeks after birth are usually painted in two colours: blissful or brutal. The actual experience is messier — wonder and dread in the same ho...
4 min read
Daycare
How to Transition Your Child to a New Daycare
You're moving your child to a new daycare — because you moved, because the old one closed, because something wasn't working, or because they aged into...
10 min read
Daycare
What Happens if Your Child Regresses at Daycare
A 3-year-old who has been reliably dry for four months suddenly has three accidents in a week — the same week she started a new daycare classroom. Par...
7 min read
Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Is Not Eating at Daycare
A teacher hands you back the lunchbox with most of it still in there, day after day. Or the daycare report says your toddler ate "two bites of pasta."...
6 min read
Daycare
How to Prepare Your Child for a New Babysitter
The instinct before a new sitter is to over-prepare the child. In practice, the most useful things are short and concrete: have the sitter visit brief...
8 min read
Family Life
How to Support a Child Through Neighborhood Changes
A two-year-old can tell you, with conviction, that the duck pond is "this way" and the green slide is "the right one". When the duck pond is drained f...
6 min read
Family Life
Helping Children Adjust to a New Home
After moving day, the work of actually settling in begins -- and for young children, that work takes weeks rather than days. Some children adapt quick...
7 min read
Family Life
Helping an Older Child Adjust to a New Baby: Regression, Jealousy, and What Helps
The older child who was thrilled about the new baby during pregnancy and then became clingy, demanding, or intermittently unkind to the infant once it...
4 min read
Family Life
Blended Families: How Children Adjust and How Adults Can Help
Blended families — sometimes called stepfamilies or reconstituted families — are now one of the most common family forms in Britain, and one of the tr...
6 min read