Toddler

Today, toxicity has become a part of our life. The air we breathe as well as the water we drink is getting polluted day by day. Continue

No doubt thumb sucking babies look very cute but as babies grow up, it may lead to many problems like ill-shaped teeth, chances of getting sick and bad effect on dental development. If ignored, some children keep on clinging on this habit up to 6 – 7 years and Continue

It is a time today when your child can feel worrisome with any reason but don’t worry you have to help them. Children can be traumatized by the adverse events which they see reported on the news. In this condition only parent can help their Continue

Today parents have very demanding schedules. They juggle with their never ending multiple tasks all day long and this is the reason bedtime routine often gets slotted. Many toddlers fight sleep. They may yawn, rub their eyes but still refuse to sleep. Continue

Children, at a very young age, especially when they are toddlers, should not be expected to behave like well disciplined children. Continue

Bed wetting is not only an embarrassing situation for the child; it is embarrassing for parents too.  It prevents them from staying overnight at any place outside their house. Most parents think that their child being a deep sleeper is a bed wetter. Bed wetting is infact a more complicated problem with its root in psychological, medical, behavioral and environmental causes. Genetics also plays an important role in bed wetting. Continue

Do vaccines lead to autism or is it all right to skip some specific vaccines. These are of the questions that may be haunting minds of most of the first time parents when they go for vaccination of their babies. Continue

As a child grows, he/she learns new words each day and most of these are picked up through conversations with parents and friends. However, a variety of books and stories can be used to teach a child new words and improve his/her language skills. Continue

A child starts speaking at the age of 1.5 years. In the beginning, his/her language skills are restricted to only a few words (some of which are completely garbled and only the parents are able to comprehend them). However, as the months progress, they start picking out words of daily usage. Continue

Infants sleep irregular hours as they tend to wake up round the clock for a feed. As they go past year one, they tend to have a late night feed at 10pm or 11 pm and then sleep for a stretch of 5-6 hours without a feed. Continue

The monsoons create lethargy among toddlers as they are bound indoors and cannot expend their energy on outdoor play. Tantrums rise as the child’s energy is not spent and he/she uses this excessive energy to create havoc at home. Parents need to channelize the high level energies by organizing play methods as an alternative to outdoor play. Continue

When a child starts eating solids, he/she is fed by an adult. This feeding often continues for several years as self feeding by toddlers is messy and slow. If left to his/her own, a toddler will not only make a mess around his/her plate, but also take a long time to finish his/her food. Continue

After two years of age, most children get dreams and nightmares that they find difficult to deal with. At this age, they have just started comprehending their waking hours and thus find it difficult to handle dreams and nightmares. Very often the child will talk in his/her sleep or will sit up and start screaming. Continue

Infants require body warmth, love and affection in their early months and it is this ‘body closeness’ that they get attached to. The concept of separation anxiety stems from this body contact that they are used to. Once an infant grows into a toddler and starts walking about, he/she tends to explore his/her surroundings. But, this is done as long as the parent or care-giver is in sight. Continue

Mothers are really happy when they wean the infant from breast feeding to the bottle, as they get some time to themselves (as anyone in the family can then feed the child). However, bottle feeding is both a boon and a bane. Continue