Toddler Growth and Development

Playing board and card games with your child will teach him about aspiration, success, and disappointment. He'll gain experience with both winning and losing.

If your child is not in preschool, try these alternate ways and opportunities to help him make friends and grow socially.

Get tips on how to make parting from your preschooler easier on both of you.

Learn how to encourage your preschooler to form friendships.

Learn how you can encourage your preschooler to get along, share, and build friendships with other children.

Take the time to explain hygiene to your preschooler, and you will probably get more cooperation in bathing, brushing, and cutting down on the spread of germs.

Parents are their preschooler's role model for social skills. The three-year-old social scientist will observe, analyze, and copy the way his parents behave with each other and with other people.

Learn how to accept and even encourage the way your child expresses emotions. Validate her feelings and support any nonviolent ways that she expresses them.

During your child's preschool years, you can track your child's mental development through the ideas that he actualizes.

Learn how to make a stuttering toddler comfortable in conversations.

Now that your child is older, conversation needs to be a two-way street. Find tips on holding an in-depth conversation with your child.

Reading to toddlers can help their imagination grow and build their vocabulary.

You can battle the influence of bias in our culture by teaching your toddler to value differences.

Find tips to help your toddler recognize and resist biases and prejudice.

Playdates will give your child the opportunity to communicate with other children and learn how to share.

Learn about common obstacles during toilet training, and what you can do about them.

Find out how you can help and encourage your toddler as he goes through toilet training.

Find out whether a potty seat or a specially designed ring is right for your toddler during potty training.