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A child starting at 10 months is having a different experience to one starting at 2 or 3 — different cognitive tools, different social capacity, diffe...
A child starting at 10 months is having a different experience to one starting at 2 or 3 — different cognitive tools, different social capacity, diffe...
A child starting at 10 months is having a different experience to one starting at 2 or 3 — different cognitive tools, different social capacity, diffe...
Starting daycare is one of the bigger transitions of early childhood, and the parts that surprise most parents aren't the obvious ones. The first day...
The first birthday gets sold as a turning point, and for some families it is. For plenty of others, the weeks just after 12 months are the worst sleep...
The "five more minutes, one more book, I need water, my sock is wrong" routine is so universal that paediatricians joke about it being a developmental...
The 6-to-8-month window is one of the densest periods of infant development outside the newborn weeks. Motor skills, cognition, social awareness, and...
By 18 months, most children have transitioned to a single midday nap and a more predictable overnight sleep pattern. But this period brings its own sl...
The period from 12 to 18 months is one of the most complex for sleep, combining a major nap transition with a developmental regression and the emergen...
The weeping face at the nursery gate is one of the most emotionally difficult experiences of early parenthood. The parent walks away to the sound of t...
The first morning back at work after parental leave is one of the strangest days of an adult life. You drop off a small person who fundamentally chang...
A baby who happily went to anyone at five months suddenly bursts into tears when grandma reaches for them at nine months. The same baby, at fourteen m...
The stretch from six to twelve months is one of the most emotionally crowded in early development. The relatively simple distress-or-calm spectrum of...
The shift from 8 months to 14 months is one of the most dramatic in child development. The placid baby who accepted being put down now arches their ba...
The instinct to stay longer when your child is upset at drop-off is completely natural. It feels like the kindest thing you can do. But the research o...
When your child cries at drop-off, it's hard to feel anything but heartbroken. But that crying is actually evidence of healthy development — a brain t...
The same Monday a child starts daycare, the toilet skill they had nailed for four months goes wobbly. The night sleep that had finally settled gets br...
The disconnect surprises every new daycare parent: the teachers say she had a great day, and 20 minutes later she's having a 45-minute meltdown about...
Separation anxiety is the single most common worry parents bring to the first weeks of daycare. The good news is that the developmental science here i...
Worry about starting daycare is normal. The whole thing is genuinely new — different building, different smell, different adults, a long stretch witho...