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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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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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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...

8 min read

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...

5 min read

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...

5 min read