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Parenting

Positive Discipline: How to Guide Children's Behaviour Without Punishment

The word "discipline" comes from the Latin disciplina, meaning teaching or learning -- not punishment. This is an important distinction that gets lost...

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Daycare

When a Child's Behaviour at Daycare Requires Professional Attention

Daycare staff observe your child in a setting you almost never see — across a busy room with peers their age, navigating a full day of social and deve...

5 min read

Daycare

Normal Child Reactions During Daycare Adaptation

Most parents brace themselves for tears at drop-off. What surprises them is everything else — the clingy evenings, the toddler who suddenly wets the b...

5 min read

Parenting

Managing Toddler Behaviour in Public: Realistic Strategies

There is a specific feeling unique to standing in a supermarket with a 2-year-old who has just lost it over the wrong colour cup, while a queue forms...

7 min read

Emotions

Hitting and Biting in Toddlers: Why It Happens and How to Respond

The phone call from nursery — "she bit another child today" — is one of the more dreaded moments of early parenthood. The shame is instant, the worry...

6 min read

Family Life

Sibling Jealousy When a New Baby Arrives

Very few things in a young child's life match the disruption of a new sibling. The child who was at the centre of the family's attention discovers, ov...

5 min read