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How to Play With Your Child Without Overstimulation or Pressure
Most parents want to play effectively with their children but sometimes feel unsure whether they are doing enough, whether their play is educational e...
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Family Life
Holiday Stress and Young Children: How to Get Through Without Meltdown
The version of holidays that exists in advertising — relaxed, glittery, full of small children gazing happily at lights — collides every year with the...
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Family Life
Family Celebrations With Young Children
The gap between how adults plan family celebrations and how young children actually experience them is wider than most parents expect until they've li...
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Family Life
How to Celebrate Birthdays Without Overstimulation
Birthday parties for young children often become more elaborate as children get younger — which is to say, the most elaborate parties tend to be throw...
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Emotions
Why an Infant May Appear Fussy
'Fussy' is an imprecise word that covers a wide range of infant behaviours, from difficult-to-soothe general distress to specific patterns of inconsol...
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Emotions
Stress in Infants: Causes and Manifestations
Stress in infants is not a metaphor. The physiological stress response — the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis producing cortisol — is fully functio...
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Emotions
How Infants Respond to Overtiredness and Overstimulation
An overtired baby and an overstimulated baby look almost identical from across the room: fussy, rigid, crying past the point of exhaustion, and someho...
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Daycare
Why Overloaded Programmes Can Hinder Daycare Adaptation
When parents tour daycares, the activity board is usually the first thing they look at. Yoga on Monday, French on Tuesday, music and movement on Wedne...
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Daycare
How to Organize Evenings After Daycare Without Overstimulation
By 5pm your child's nervous system has already done a lot. New voices, transitions, group rules, sharing, hunger, separation — all in one day. Yet mos...
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Daycare
Why Overloaded Programs Can Hinder Adaptation
A program advertising daily Spanish, music, soccer, yoga, and a weekly field trip looks impressive on the website. For a 2-year-old still figuring out...
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