Understanding Toddler Behavior Parenting Insights: It can be quite challenging for parents when their little ones engage in ...

Toddler tantrums often signal unmet needs or overwhelming emotions, not just misbehavior. Understanding these cues and validating feelings like anger or frustration helps children feel safe and ...

Toddlers often gag themselves as a way to explore their bodies, which is a normal phase for many young children. This behavior usually goes away on its own, especially if it's not reinforced by strong ...

Toddlers are wonderful—they are creative, engaging, silly, and fun. They are also easily frustrated and have a reputation for being unreasonable. This is largely because of their immature, yet ...

When parents explain more and behavior persists, the issue is not effort or care, but the expectation that understanding alone will work in the wrong moment.

I have recently re-entered the toddler stage with my second child, and am gearing up to face the struggles of early discipline and potty training that I have already white-knuckled through before with ...

Parenting a two year old is such a wild ride. The other day, my son started the morning with an explosion of cuddles, followed immediately by refusing the blueberry muffins he had declared his very ...

Do abuse and neglect cause behavior problems among children or do behavior problems among children cause abuse and neglect? A new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human ...

Toddlerhood represents a time with emotions for young children. Sudden tantrums crying fits, disregarding directions or aggressive behaviors may be labeled as "misbehavior." However frequently this is ...