Toddlers

A mother is concerned when her child's teacher talks about her son's "sloppy coloring and handwriting."

A recently divorced mother wonders whether her four-year-old needs counseling.

Three-year-olds aren't able use words at all times when they are angry, frustrated, or frightened.

Unfortunately, you have created a ritualized bedtime sleep pattern and nighttime awakening pattern that has your child needing your presence to fall asleep.

Disciplining a child while he is throwing a tantrum and/or hitting and screaming is impossible.

A pediatric neurologist or a doctor who treats childhood sleep problems should evaluate your seven-year-old.

Find out the difference between night (or sleep) terrors and nightmares, which are two separate parasomnias (sleep disturbances).

There is more to this family problem than just your husband's responses to your daughter's nighttime bedwetting.

Disciplining a two-year-old and a six-year-old are very different challenges.

Most often these lumps are normal lymph nodes -- "glands" that we all have in various parts of our bodies.

Give your child the power to dictate some time alone with you, doing something with him that he would like to do. Do this on a regular basis.

Expert advice for a mother whose son fears "falling into" the toilet.

Developmentally, children show tremendous individual differences in how frequently and for how long they nap, as well as when they stop napping.

Our expert provides advice on helping a child make the transition from her parents' bed to her own.

You have to be relaxed about potty training. A child will make his own decision about when he wants to use the toilet to defecate.