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Seal the Deal: Do dental sealants prevent cavities?
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You make sure your kids brush on a regular basis, avoid sticky candy and rinse their mouths with water after eating sugary treats if they can’t brush their teeth. You even wrangle with...
Healthy Foods for Growing Children: Feeding Your Preschooler (2 to 5 Years)
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Using Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating for the whole family makes sense because children adapt the same eating patterns as their families. The Food Guide gives a lower and hig...
The End of the Nap
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Adjusting to the disappearance of nap
time. When
Myrna Moss’s youngest child was three-and-a-half, he suddenly cut out
his two-
to three-hour afternoon nap cold turkey, but ...
The play’s the thing
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A kindergarten classroom is full of endless possibilities for
learning.When your child steps into the kindergarten classroom for the
first time it will be the start of an exciting journey ...
5 must-have skills for kindergarten success
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Attention
parents of preschoolers: If you’re spending a lot of time over the summer
coaching your children on counting and reciting the alphabet, take a breather.
Your time will be ...
The Race to Read
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Children learn to walk and talk at their own pace, so why do we expect them to learn to read according to a schedule?My
husband and I are doing something with our seven-year-old daughter, ...
Ask Dr. Marla: Establishing Boundaries on Self-Touching
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Question:My four-and-a-half-year-old son is moving on from fondling himself to full blown masturbation. I know it is healthy and feels good and I express that to him. I’ve told him tha...
Ask Dr. Marla: Selective Mutism in Children
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Question:My four-year-old does not talk to other children his age. At home he is an energizer bunny and quite bossy to his older siblings, ages eight and 10, but at preschool he only plays a...
Snooze Control
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It’s hard enough for preschoolers to get a good night’s sleep. The small task of getting them into bed on time every night often becomes a big feat. A good night’s sleep is...
Stuttering
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To a preschooler, the world is a wondrous place, with something new and exciting around every corner. And while his eyes and ears are taking everything in, his brain and mouth are working at...




