
Kindergarten readiness checklist: skills experts say to practice now
Discover the social, thinking, and academic skills your child needs to thrive in school —plus ways for them to practice now.
Discover the social, thinking, and academic skills your child needs to thrive in school —plus ways for them to practice now.
Allowing your toddler to practice each part of a self-care skill with you boosts their confidence and independence.
By staying close and being a calm, steady presence, you’re actually helping your toddler learn to become more independent in the future.
Your toddler isn't mature enough to resist their impulses yet, but there are things you can do now to help them develop this skill.
Try these ideas to help your child understand what it means to be a good playmate.
Acting out simple real-life situations during play gives your toddler a chance to learn about other people’s feelings without their own distress getting in the way.
Tantrums are part of toddler life, but these ideas may help you nip some before they start.
Up to 15% of young children will intentionally bang their head on the wall or floor at some point. Here's what to do when it happens.
Try these six expert tips to make bath time less stressful for your toddler—and you.
Try these four steps to reconnect and teach your toddler how to handle moments that don't go the way we'd hoped.
The Enthusiast Play Kit for 28-, 29-, and 30-month-olds features two new items, guided by parent and expert feedback.
Learn four strategies to help your toddler enjoy—and learn from—parallel play.
When hosting a toddler play date, a little planning can go a long way toward minimizing conflict and maximizing opportunities to connect.
Research shows you can help your child recognize how other people think and feel so they learn to respond in more compassionate ways.
From advance warning to giving your toddler some power over loud noises, discover the best ways to help your child startle less.
Find tips for planning a successful video chat as well as five activities for better video chats with toddlers.
Help your toddler work through feelings of disappointment, sadness, and frustration when their skills don't quite match their ambitions.
Your toddler is slowly learning that their actions have consequences. When you give and explain appropriate consequences, they’ll start to understand what they can and cannot do.
Grabbing at this toddler stage isn’t malicious and doesn’t need a consequence or any form of discipline. Learn what to do instead.
Discover lesser-known tips and facts about teaching your child to use the toilet from Lovevery's senior child development expert.
Studies show that a child’s sleep environment can strongly impact their sleep quality. Try these research-backed strategies tonight.
They way your child plays make-believe changes as they grow. At each stage, pretend play offers cognitive and social-emotional benefits.
Pretend play lets your toddler learn by trying new roles. Discover why pretending along with them matters and tips for playtime.
Discover expert tips on how to help your toddler connect how they feel to what they do.
Learning that emotional connections can get disrupted and repaired is an important lesson for your child. Try these four steps to reconnect.
Ask yourself these six questions to decide if a limit is worth setting.
Many toddlers are drawn to “destructive play." Read our tips on how to prepare for this behavior and how to react when your toddler tests limits.
Your toddler may be comforted by one (or more) of these six strategies.
Having their nails cut is a little bit scary for your child. Here are some adjustments that might make the process a little easier for both of you.
Are there benefits to thumb sucking? Should I try to stop my baby from thumb sucking? Learn if it's okay for your baby to suck their thumb.
Read our three steps to setting toddler limits with empathy and understand what empathetic boundaries teach children.
When your toddler tests boundaries, you may wonder what you’re doing wrong. Remembering these 3 toddler truths can help.
Some toddlers are less soothed by close physical contact than they were as babies. Learn what to do when a hug won't work.
Using specific and even complex words to describe how your child feels gives them a deeper, more nuanced understanding of their emotions.
When children are enjoying an activity, they just want to keep doing it. Read our 6 steps to help your toddler transition.
All toddlers have temper tantrums. Learn the dos and don'ts to help you and your child through public and private meltdowns.
Co-regulation is the process of showing your toddler how to manage emotions by doing it together. Try these expert tips the next time your child gets upset.
Big feelings are a sign of your toddler's healthy social-emotional development. Learn three ways to help you and your child manage them.
Learning to walk can be surprisingly emotional for a child. Try this game to build connection and walking confidence.
As your toddler becomes more independent, you have an opportunity to help them cultivate healthy self-esteem. Here are 4 ways to help your toddler develop it.
Now that your child is a toddler, they may start to experiment with pretend play. Learn three ways to support them.
Timeouts are a controversial topic. Learn if timeouts are bad and how to help your toddler reset themselves.
Going to bed can be hard for your toddler—and when they cry, cling, or continue to call your name night after night, it can be hard on you, too.
Lovevery is thrilled to announce its new Book Bundles for Play Kits subscribers. We’re excited for you and your child to discover your new favorite books together.
Understand how your toddler may "play" with other kids and how you can help them build their friendship skills.
Studies suggest that a child’s relationship with a pet can have health and emotional benefits. Read how pets may build skills and attachment.
Waving ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye‘ combine at least three distinct types of skills for your baby. Learn more about these skills and how to encourage waving.
Help your baby practice and expand their skills with these simple games and activities recommended by Gabrielle Felman, Lovevery's child development expert.
Face-to-face time increases your baby's attention span, helps them learn to tolerate eye contact, and introduces them to social cues.
When it comes to developing your baby’s vocabulary, it helps to be a broken record. Here are 4 tips to maximize your baby’s language development.
Telling your baby ‘no,’ ‘stop,’ or ‘don’t’ can sometimes backfire. Read our tips on ways to redirect your baby without saying ‘no.’
Between 5 and 10% of fathers can show signs of depression during their partner's pregnancy or the first 6 months of their baby's life. Learn more about new-dad depression.
Imitation is one of the main ways your baby learns about the world. Read about the link between imitation and learning.
Your baby’s earliest forms of communication are crying, eye contact, and smiles. Then they may begin to coo. Read these 4 ways to encourage cooing.
Your baby’s eyes and entire face light up when they smile, sometimes with noises and gestures. Learn how to encourage more social smiles.
Researchers compared crying and heart rate in babies when they were held and when their mother walked around, carrying them. Learn more about the study results.
Between 6 and 18 months, your baby’s growing cognition and awareness may also trigger sudden fears and insecurities. Read our tips for dealing with these new fears.
Stimulation is a tricky balance to strike for your baby. Learn clues that they're overstimulated and signs that they're ready to engage more.
Between the ages of 9 and 12 months, your baby starts to test limits, especially at mealtime. Read our tips on what to do.
Attachment plays an important role in how the structure of an infant’s brain forms, laying the foundation for their development. Read our tips on how to encourage attachment.
In honor of Black History Month, here are some books we love, written by Black authors and featuring Black characters in happy, present-day storylines.
One of the primary ways your newborn learns about the world in the first few weeks is through their sense of smell. Learn how scents can help soothe your baby.
A crying or fussy baby can be really hard, especially if there isn’t a clear explanation. Try these 5 techniques to help calm your baby.
Separation anxiety is a sign of both cognitive and social-emotional growth, and it can look different for every child. Here's how you can make the separation easier on them—and on yourself.
Learning and responding to their name is a big cognitive leap for your baby. Read our tips to help encourage name recognition.
After cooing and smiling, laughing comes next. Learn how to encourage your baby's giggles.
If your baby cries and cries and cries they may be among the up to 40% of infants with colic. Learn how to help your baby and yourself with these tips.
A new baby brother or sister can be exciting for a young child, but their perspective can change quickly. Read our tips to help with this big change.
Inside our Storyteller Play Kit, you’ll find a Puppet Theater and Puppet Set designed to help spark your child’s imagination and bring their storytelling to life.
Age 3 is a period of major social and emotional growth, and your 3-year-old will need support managing their big emotions. The Observer Play Kit can help you and your child navigate this important time of transition.
Here’s a quick primer on residential schools, followed by an explanation of how to talk to kids about them, and some age-appropriate book lists for family learning.
Attending to the needs of your children while prioritizing your personal well-being is a tough balancing act. Here are six ways you can use mindfulness to support your mental well-being.
We compiled this expert guide to help you know what to expect for your baby's growth and month-by-month development.
The Organic Cotton Baby Doll comes in three skin tones and is gender-neutral. Read more about our Baby Doll for everyone.
A Montessori-inspired nursery is simple and soothing. We've collected 7 of our favorite items here to help you design one that's right for your baby.
The root cause of a tantrum is often your child wanting independence but not being quite ready for it. Here's how to handle one when it comes up.
Loveys, also known as "transitional objects," help babies and toddlers through transitions. Learn why these blankies, stuffies, and more are important and what to do if one goes missing.
Halloween will be different this year—but that doesn't mean we can't still celebrate it with our young children.
We compiled this guide to different early childhood philosophies to help you make informed decisions about childcare.
If your toddler is showing signs of anxiety like sleep issues and moodiness, try talking to them, creating calming routines, and these other tips to help.
A toddler's budding sense of humor is a sign of their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Learn five ways to help nurture your child's funny bone.
Three years old comes with new social-emotional and logic skills, language, independence, curiosity, and a sense of right and wrong. Learn more in our post.
A study conducted at UNC Chapel Hill concluded that gratitude has four separate parts. Learn them all and how to help your child put them in practice.
Playdates are a great time to develop social skills like building friendships and taking turns. Here's how to support your child before and during a playdate.
In a two-parent home, almost every child will favor one parent over the other at some point. Here's how to handle it when it happens in your family.
A critical piece of teaching kindness is empathy. Here are some ways to help your two-year-old understand, share, and connect with someone else's feelings.
When we talk about sharing with two-year-olds, what we’re really talking about is turn-taking. Here are some tips for helping your child learn to take turns.
Lovevery CEO Jessica Rolph discusses how empowering children to choose how they show affection can help them establish healthy boundaries later on.
Mirror play builds self-awareness, empathy, and social-emotional learning. Here are 4 ways to teach your child using their reflection and yours.
Studies have shown adults are hardwired to react to whining more than any other sound a child makes. What does the whining mean and how should you respond?
A study showed that babies' brains synch with their parents’ when they learn about their social environment. Read about how eye contact plays a crucial role in developing emotional connections.
Learn the differences between turn-taking and sharing, and when children are ready for each.
Your toddler is growing every day—physically, mentally, and emotionally. We gathered together five key facts to help you better understand your toddler and what's happening with their development right now.
We asked some of our favorite early childhood, Montessori, and resilience experts to share some advice with us. Here are their top 10 tips.
It’s a fact of life: babies and toddlers cry. Here are some ways to help your toddler work through big feelings.
Do you speak to your toddler in the third person? "Illeism" may help your toddler develop their language skills until they understand pronouns.