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Learning Toys vs Workbooks: What a Four-Year-Old Needs Before Kindergarten
Letters come quickly once the hands are ready, and hands get ready through play. What kindergarten actually asks for, which learning toys do real work, and when a workbook makes sense.
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Practical
Toy Safety for Under-Threes: Small Parts, Magnets and Button Batteries
Three things cause nearly all the serious toy injuries in children under three, and none of them are the th...
Fit
Hand-Me-Down Baby Shoes: When They Are Fine, and When They Are Not
A bag of shoes from a cousin or an older sibling. Some of it is fine, some of it is not, and a two minute c...
Puzzles
Puzzles for a Two-Year-Old: Knob, Peg or Jigsaw?
A puzzle that is too hard is not a challenge, it is a toy that gets thrown. The order that works from one t...
Fit
First Winter Boots for a Toddler Who Walks
Last winter they sat in the stroller. This winter they will stand in every puddle. Four things the boot now...
Sensory
Sensory Toys for a Baby Under One: What Sensory Actually Means
It is on half the baby toys sold and it is not a standard. What a baby under one actually does with a toy, ...
Practical
Does a Baby Need Slippers Indoors?
On carpet in a warm house, no. On cold tile from October to March, yes, but not the fluffy sock and not the...
Busy boards
Busy Boards: Which Age, and What Makes a Good One
A busy board is for the stretch between ten and eighteen months when a child wants to open, turn and pull e...
Fit
Socks Under Baby Shoes: Thick, Thin or None at All
The shoe that fit in July suddenly does not, and the sock is why. Which sock goes with which shoe, why you ...
Milestones
Toys by Age: What a Baby Actually Plays With, From Birth to Five
The box is more interesting than the toy, and that is not a joke. What a child actually does with a toy at ...
First steps
Daycare Shoes: What the Teachers Actually Want
Not a brand. A shoe that goes on in ten seconds, stays on all morning, and comes home with the right name i...
Fit
The August Shoe Closet Clear-Out
Ten minutes now saves a rushed purchase in October. The four checks that decide what stays, and the three p...
First steps
Getting Shoes On a Child Who Does Not Want Them
Three minutes before you leave and the foot has disappeared under a cushion. There are only three causes, a...
Materials
How to Clean Baby Shoes Without Wrecking Them
Most of the dirt comes off in ten minutes at the sink. What ruins a pair is almost never the dirt, it is th...
First steps
When Do Babies Start Walking? What's Normal, and What Isn't
Most babies take their first steps somewhere between nine and eighteen months. That is a nine-month window,...