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Building Social Skills Through Play

The honest truth about teaching social skills under 5: you mostly can't. You can model them, you can coach briefly, you can engineer the situations, b...

8 min read

Parenting

When Children Exclude Others: What It Means

A 4-year-old yelling "you can't play with us!" lands like the start of a lifelong personality. Usually it isn't. The capacity to take another child's...

8 min read

Family Life

Sibling Relationships in Early Childhood

The most thorough body of work on early sibling relationships comes from Judy Dunn at Cambridge and a generation of researchers (Howe, Volling, Brody,...

7 min read

Daycare

How Daycare Affects a Child's Social Development

Daycare is where children practice the social skills that don't develop with parents alone. Peers don't intuitively know what your child wants. They d...

9 min read

Daycare

How Early Friendships Form in Daycare

Can toddlers have real friends? Yes — and the answer matters, because parents sometimes underestimate what their 2-year-old is actually doing socially...

3 min read

Emotions

Peer Pressure: How to Help Children Navigate It

Conversations about peer pressure tend to focus on resistance: teaching children to say no, to walk away, to choose better friends. This isn't wrong,...

5 min read