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Music Therapy for Infants and Toddlers: What Parents Should Know
Streaming Mozart for a sleeping newborn is not music therapy. Singing your child's favourite lullaby at bedtime is not music therapy either, even thou...
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Sleep
Why Not All Children Fall Asleep the Same Way
Parents who have had one easy-settling infant and one who required hours of support every evening did not do anything different. Individual variation...
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Development
Sensory Sensitivity in Young Children: What's Normal and When to Seek Help
Some children cover their ears in the supermarket. Some gag when certain textures touch their mouths. Some seek constant physical movement or pressure...
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Why Not All Children Are Ready for Group Activities
At every toddler group there are two or three children who hover at the edge of the room for ten minutes before they move. They watch. They keep one h...
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Play
When Messy Play Is Not Suitable
A friend's 2-year-old took one look at the playdough on the table, started crying, and asked to leave. Her mother apologised — "she's just not into me...
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Messy Play: Benefits and Boundaries
Most parents have already done the cost-benefit calculation on messy play and concluded that the floor cleanup isn't worth it. That conclusion is, in...
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Emotions
How Young Children React to Loud and Unexpected Stimuli
A blender. A vacuum. The bathroom hand dryer at the airport. Your toddler is in pieces and you cannot understand why a household appliance is the vill...
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Development
Sensory Processing in Toddlers: Understanding Differences in Sensitivity
Some toddlers resist certain textures of food so intensely that mealtimes become a battle. Others cannot walk on grass without distress, or fall apart...
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Development
Sensory Development in Young Children: How the Senses Develop and What Supports Them
From the moment of birth, babies are taking in sensory information from the world around them — and while the senses are immature at birth, they are a...
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Parenting
Parenting an Autistic Child: Practical Strategies for Everyday Life
Parenting any child well requires figuring out how that particular child experiences the world. Parenting an autistic child means learning a different...
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