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Best Way to Understand Your Newborn Baby

Many things about your newborn may be surprising to you. For example, most babies are born looking blotchy, wrinkly, and a little “blue” – this is all very normal and their appearance begins to change in just a few days as they grow and develop. Chances are that you and… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s Emotional Development in the Second Year

Family life is an important arena for emotional development. You will already be familiar with the development of your baby’s emotions over the first year. From a very early age your baby learned to express pleasure by smiling. Faced with a surprise or completely unknown situation, she may have shown… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s Personality

While all young babies have many characteristics and behaviours in common, there are also immense differences between them, even at the very beginning of life. Your baby is an individual who is genetically unique and has already had a particular set of experiences in the womb, during birth, and in… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s Development in the Second Year

You have spent the first year learning to understand and meet your baby’s physical and emotional needs, and it’s been a very hands-on process. Now the focus changes. This second year is much more about helping your toddler become a self-sufficient individual, branching out into the wider world, with you… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s Verbal Communication

Your baby began to understand the power of language very early on, and started learning to talk from the day he was born. You will find it hard to resist his early attempts at conversation, and it can be great fun to repeal his grunts and squeaks back to him.… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s Social Development in the Second Year

During this second year, your toddler is inclined to see life with himself right at its centre. This egocentricity is essential to establishing the secure self-image that will eventually enable him to extend his consideration to other children and adults. Help him build on his self-image and become more sensitive… Continue Reading…