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Family Life

Setting Limits With Grandparents and Other Relatives

Grandparents and other relatives matter to your child, and most of them are trying to help. But they grew up in a different parenting era — when "scre...

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Family Life

Setting Limits With Grandparents

Almost every couple I meet hits a version of this conversation in the first two years. A grandparent feeds the toddler something the parents don't all...

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Sleep

Toddler Sleep Refusal: When Bedtime Becomes a Battle

You start the routine at 7pm, calm and reasonable. Two stories, one song, kiss, lights off. By 7:15 you're back in the room with water. By 7:30 they n...

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Parenting

Managing Toddler Behaviour in Public: Realistic Strategies

There is a specific feeling unique to standing in a supermarket with a 2-year-old who has just lost it over the wrong colour cup, while a queue forms...

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Parenting

Discipline Versus Punishment: What the Research Says Works

"Discipline" and "punishment" get used as synonyms, which gets the conversation off on the wrong foot. Discipline comes from the Latin for "to teach"...

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