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A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (US)
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
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Daycare
A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (UK)
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
5 min read
Daycare
A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (Global)
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
5 min read
Daycare
When a Child's Behavior Requires Professional Attention (US)
Starting daycare shakes most children up a bit — clingier evenings, broken sleep, a few accidents in the recently potty-trained, a quieter child for a...
5 min read
Daycare
When a Child's Behavior Requires Professional Attention (UK)
Starting nursery shakes most children up a bit — clingier evenings, broken sleep, a few accidents in the recently potty-trained, a quieter child for a...
5 min read
Daycare
When a Child's Behavior Requires Professional Attention (Global)
Starting daycare shakes most children up a bit — clingier evenings, broken sleep, a few accidents in the recently potty-trained, a quieter child for a...
5 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (US)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at daycare pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Parenting
Modeling the Behavior You Want to See
"Do as I say, not as I do" was, on inspection, never a working parenting strategy. The neuroscience is clear: children's brains run on imitation almos...
8 min read
Parenting
Hitting and Kicking: Understanding the Developmental Context
Your toddler hits when they don't get their way. Your preschooler kicks during an argument with a peer. Your child strikes out when frustrated or over...
6 min read
Emotions
Sleep and a Child's Psycho-Emotional State
Parents tend to focus on the visible problem — the whining, the clinginess, the screaming over a peeled banana — without seeing it as the surface of s...
5 min read
Emotions
The Relationship Between Sleep and Behavior in Young Children
A toddler hits their sibling for the third time today. A 4-year-old refuses to put their shoes on, screams when offered help, and screams again when h...
6 min read
Emotions
How Physical Discomfort Influences Behavior
Most parents have lived through some version of this: three days of bizarre crankiness, blown-up sleep, refused meals, no obvious cause — and then a t...
4 min read
Emotions
What to Do When a Tired Child Cannot Be Reasoned With
A 2-year-old who missed their nap is on the kitchen floor screaming because the banana broke in half. You're trying to explain that broken bananas are...
5 min read
Emotions
Why Fatigue Drives Tantrums Up
You'll often hear parents say their child becomes a different person when tired. They aren't being dramatic. The same brain at 7 p.m. after a missed n...
5 min read
Daycare
What Children Do Not Tell Parents About Daycare
"How was your day?" — "Good." That's the conversation with most kids under 5, even on days that included a real conflict, a scary nap, or a stomachach...
7 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
A Child's Emotional State After Daycare
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
5 min read
Daycare
When a Child's Behavior Requires Professional Attention
Starting nursery shakes most children up a bit — clingier evenings, broken sleep, a few accidents in the recently potty-trained, a quieter child for a...
5 min read
Daycare
Extended Hours at Daycare: Effects on Children
A child doing 8am to 6pm in nursery five days a week is not unusual in the UK — it is the norm for two working parents with a long commute. Researcher...
9 min read