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Meaningful Family Ideas to Spend the Summer Days

The summer can provide bountiful time for fun family activities that promote play, togetherness, travel for kids, and healthy fitness. These family ideas can add zest to your summer.

A Parent’s Development Journal

Becoming a parent is a journey with many wonderful lessons to be learned along the way. Keeping a parent's development journal can help you slow down and enjoy each daythoughtfully.

Separation Anxiety: Babies and Young Children

Many children fear separation at some point. Separation anxiety in babies and children occurs frequently with daycare providers and preschool teachers. Is this normal baby behavior?

Grief Issues in Children Require Tender Guidance

Grief issues in children vary widely with the ages and child development stages of the youngsters. Understanding these needs can help adults respond appropriately.

Getting To Know Your Grandkids

If you don't see your grandchildren often, it may take time for them to warm up to you as you participate in family home activities. These tips will help to break the ice.

Does Your Daycare Provide Educational Care For Your Child?

Choosing the right childcare is extremely important to all babies' development. Does your baby's daycare provide enough infant activity for your child, or is it time for a change?

Child Development Research: A Look at Kids' Sleep Disorders

Sometimes it's not just a problem of kids fighting bedtime. If your child sleepwalks, wets the bed, or has night terrors, child development research can help you figure out what you can do.

Family Ideas for Grandparenting at a Distance

When grandparents are far away, it takes creativity to come up with fun family activities to keep close to the grandkids. Here are some family ideas that can help.

Children of Special Needs Deserve Special Grandparents

Children of special needs deserve special grandparents. Here's the story of one grandma and her cherished grandson, Eric.

Bedtime Rituals: Soothing the Nighttime Transition to Bed

The nighttime transition to bed can be hard for some children and even harder for their parents. Here are some ideas, from children's bedtime stories to rehashing the day, that will help.

Home Away from Home

What to do when your child sleeps in different beds throughout the week.

For Crying Out Loud!

How to teach babies to sleep when neighbors are nearby.

Hush, Little Baby

Singing is a tried and true method for lulling babies to sleep.

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, the Baby Is Snoring

In this Lessons Learned column from Start magazine, the author shares sleepytime tips she's picked up over the course of 9 years of parenthood.

How Much Sleep Is Enough?

Daily sleep requirements by age, according to the National Sleep Foundation.

KnowHow: Good Night, Sleep Tight

Sleep is crucial to growing bodies and minds. Help your child get the rest she needs at every age and stage.

Bedtime Stories: Dreaming of Sleep

One family struggles with sleepless nights. EduGuide asks two experts for advice.

Lessons at Bedtime: My Little Man and the Moon

After a hectic day, many parents can't wait to relax. But sometimes kids can teach one last lesson before bedtime.

Progress Report: From Preschool to Kindergarten and Beyond

A mother of elementary-aged kids looks back at the early days of school.

Learning Together

Playful ways to give your child the best beginning for preschool, kindergarten and beyond.

What Vacation? The Bauer Family’s Story

With school ending for the summer, one family struggles with a childcare challenge. EduGuide asks two experts for advice.

Who Will Love the Children? Name a Guardian

Most of us don't want to think of who might care for our children if something happens to us. But as parents, we have to prepare for anything.

When Parents Remarry: Check Ingredients Before Blending

Before you decide to remarry, make sure your child has time to get to know his new stepparent and step-siblings. Everyone needs time to adjust to make it work.

The Nightly Grind: Does Your Child Have Bruxism?

Have you noticed that your little one is grinding her teeth at night? Here's what you can do to help.

Rites of Passage for Special Needs Children

Sometimes, children with special needs miss out on the rights of passage of childhood. How can parents cope? Read one mom's inspiring reflections.

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