Articles on Toddlers

Mother, why are you cleaning up this room; isn’t this your little girl’s room? “Yes, but she’s only three, not big enough to clean up yet.”

When we travel, teaching seminars, Deb and I enjoy observing the many different families, each with it’s own unique personality.

Children attempt to control their environment, which means the people around them, through pity or threat.

Twelve-month-old Roseanna has one adoring mama, one adoring daddy, one adoring five-year-old sister, one adoring seven-year-old brother, and dozens of adoring friends.

Several times I have been asked by parents how they can make a child sit in a car seat when he or she refuses to do so.

There is a universal tendency to try to make life fair. We tend to think of legislated fairness as equality, when in fact it is inequality. This is so ingrained in us that we (...)

I receive many letters and public inquiries on the issue of personal rights.

Many of you have written us about the problem of your older children wetting their beds. Through our extensive social outreach we have persuaded one of these tormented souls (...)

One of the young mothers in the church tells how she trained her three-month-old daughter to cry and whine to be picked up and held.