Toddler Week 24
Joint AttentionTogether with the cognitive skill of joint attention, your toddler is using fine motor skills to point to the things he or she finds interesting and wants...
Preschooler Week 54
Tag, YouChildren four years of age are at their most active. Four-year-olds will already have developed a certain degree of independence by this time, and they would most...
Preschooler Week 31
LetChildren at age three and a half start to exhibit changes in the way they communicate with their peers. Some children love to engage in activities with friends,...
Preschooler Week 59
Numbers Count!Your four year old knows what numbers are and hopefully is using them during every day play and living. As your child starts sharing with friends, you...
Preschooler Week 25
LetAs kids enter the early childhood years, their gross motor development advances. They become surer of themselves and take more risks. The large muscles on their legs, trunk,...
Preschooler Week 68
Give Me Fair Warning, Then IBy understanding the development of your four year old you can shift your attention on seeing the world through her eyes. Take a...
Preschooler Week 20
Humor DevelopmentYou can tell a lot about a child’s developmental level by the things he or she laughs about. Two-year-olds usually find random words like ‘lippity-loppity-lappity’ funny because...
Preschooler Week 52
Inside Outside Upside DownYour child’s language development has been growing at a rapid pace for the last few years. Remember when your child was saying the words “more”...
Preschooler Week 75
You Read To Me, IWhen my daughter was four years old we had the board book, Go Dog Go (Eastman, 1961). It was one of her favorite books...
Toddler Week 22
Toddler Stop!As your toddlers’ exploration skills improve, they might unintentionally get themselves into dangerous situations. It is imperative, therefore, that they learn to respond properly when you say...