Articles on Toddlers

I overheard two little tots. Discussing in great length Just why their mamas spank them. It made me pause and think. "My mommy spanks me when she’s mad,” I heard a young voice say (...)

Excerpt from the book "To Train Up A Child", by Michael and Debi Pearl.

Last week I was in Florida staying in the home of a young family. They had a son, 2-years old, who exemplified good training.

As the father left the volley ball court headed for the house, his little four-year-old daughter began to scream.

“My three-year-old daughter often screams when she is aggravated by the other children or when she doesn’t get her way. Is this normal? Will she grow out of it?”

A reader asks, “How do you handle sibling aggression, fighting over toys, etc.? How do they learn to handle situations and not run to mama? How does mama learn not to i (...)

In our book, To Train Up A Child, the chapter that has produced the most inquires is the one on potty training infants.

My wife was standing in a yard talking to the young mother of a seven-year-old boy and two girls. The girls are fairly obedient and even tempered. But the boy...

What irritates the mother about her child is actually a developing character flaw in the child.