Posts Tagged 'toddler'

13
JAN
2025

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school, seasonal, toddler

Please don’t scare the little ones this Halloween

Posted by: The Grandmothers

Blog, Parenting Blog, The HP Grandmothers Blog

3
OCT
2024

3

scary, toddler

Shopping for preschool: 19 things your child needs to learn

Posted by: Deborah W. Paris, LISW

28
MAR
2024

2

curriculum, development, faculty, learning, mastery, school, toddler

The forgetful child and feeling forgotten

Posted by: Victoria Todd, Child Psychoanalyst

As a child psychoanalyst, I provide consultation services to tutors who work with children who have learning troubles. My job is to help them understand that behavior is a meaningful communication. Children can’t always tell you how they’re feeling; they let their behavior do the talking.

Recently a tutor reported that a boy showed up for class without his school supplies. So, the tutor gave him a pencil and paper only to learn that he “forgot ...

9
OCT
2023

0

communication, forgetful, forgotten, parent, preadolescent, teenager, toddler

Leaving children for the weekend

Posted by: The Grandmothers

Leaving children for the weekend isn’t easy for anyone. But at one time or another, all parents need a weekend getaway – whether it’s to take a break, tend to out-of-town family matters, or attend a wedding or other adult occasion without the kids.

When this need arises for the first time, they might have some concerns – especially if their child already fusses when a sitter comes for just the evening.

If the sitter can be someone your child already knows, ...

14
JUL
2023

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feelings, forgotten, get-away, parent, separation, toddler

Bedtime struggles with young children

Posted by: The Grandmothers

Children who resist bedtime are noted for their determinedly open eyes and, usually, loud protests at being put to bed, often at the hour when the caregiver is most desperate to have the child fall asleep. Unfortunately, such bedtime struggles are not something that occurs once and then is outgrown forever but is a stage that can appear at several different ages and for different reasons: in infancy, in toddlerhood, and quite possibly at regular intervals after that. Some children, ...

7
MAR
2023

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bedtime, parent, sleep, toddler

Birthday parties – a little bit of sanity please

Posted by: The Grandmothers

23
JAN
2023

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birthday, development, feelings, parent, toddler

Saying bye-bye to the ‘binkie’

Posted by: The Grandmothers

In Anne Tyler’s novel Digging to America there’s a humorous scene in which a mother plans an elaborate scheme for separating her 3-year-old daughter from her pacifier.

She invites all the mothers and young children she knows to a party, the climax of which will be the releasing of a clutch of helium balloons with binkies (pacifiers) attached to them. On her daughter’s balloon is the pacifier, of course, which will dramatically sail ...

21
NOV
2022

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binkie, pacifier, toddler

A simple test to know if a child is ready for Halloween frights

Posted by: Victoria Todd, Child Psychoanalyst

12
OCT
2022

1

halloween, scary, seasonal, toddler

A parenting technique that really works: Focus on the child’s “self”

Posted by: Webmaster

At a workshop on parenting sponsored by The Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development (HPC), Licensed Independent Social Worker and HPC Child Psychoanalyst and Therapist Deborah Paris addressed a range of questions and concerns, including this one:

Q: I keep hearing about “attachment parenting” and other parenting techniques. Is there a particular technique that you like?

A: My preferred technique is whatever works best in promoting healthy development. It begins with understanding there are certain goals in raising young children:

Self care
Self regulation
Self ...

1
SEP
2022

2