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Water Play for Babies at Home

You don't need a water table or a backyard pool. The most effective water play for babies and toddlers happens with a plastic basin, a couple of cups,...

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Playdate Preparation: What to Expect

A playdate that goes well at 18 months looks suspiciously different from a playdate that goes well at five. The young version is short, low-key, has d...

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Parallel Play: What It Is and When It Appears

The classic toddler scene — two children in the same room, a metre apart, doing similar things, not actually doing them with each other — looks oddly...

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Play for Children Aged 18–24 Months: Exploration and Active Play

Eighteen to twenty-four months is a period of rich development and, often, rich difficulty. The toddler in this phase is grappling with desires that e...

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Play for Children Aged 24–36 Months: Imagination and Role Play

The two-to-three-year-old at play is often absorbed in another world entirely. The doll is sick and needs medicine; the small animals are going on a j...

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Play Ideas for Children Aged 12–18 Months: Movement and Discovery

The 12–18-month-old has just become a walker, and the world looks different. Cupboards open. Kitchen drawers turn out to contain whisks and Tupperware...

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Play for Children Aged 18–24 Months: Exploration and Activity

Between 18 and 24 months, most children move from single words to the beginnings of two-word phrases, from simple object manipulation to the first sig...

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Play for Children Aged 24–36 Months: Imagination and Role Play

The third year of life is one of the richest developmental periods. Language becomes conversational, imagination becomes genuinely narrative, peer rel...

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Play Ideas for Children Aged 12–18 Months Through Movement

The first steps — typically taken between 9 and 15 months — transform the child's relationship to their environment. The walking toddler is newly inde...

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Independent Play: How to Encourage It and How Much Children Need

"How long should my toddler be able to play on their own?" is one of those parenting questions that feels like it should have a simple answer. It does...

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