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When Your 3 Year Old’s Behavior Is Out of Control

May 13, 2021

Struggling with your child hitting or not listening? Learn how to discipline when your 3 year old's behavior is out of control. Many of us were warned about the "Terrible Twos," but they don't always tell you about what happens after. The days when your 3 year old talks back, is aggressive and mean (of course, only toward you), or won't listen to anything you say. When no amount of timeouts or taking privileges away does anything. Or when she totally ignores what you say, or yells "I don't care!" Maybe she bites, hits, and scratches when she doesn't get what she wants, or whines and … [Read more...]

9 Ways to Keep Kids from Getting Sick at School

Little Kids

Apr 27, 2021

Don't want your child catching germs from other kids? Discover 9 ways to keep kids from getting sick at school. Kids getting sick at school seems inevitable sometimes. You enroll your child in preschool, but he misses half the month because he keeps getting sick. Or you can't seem to go a week without someone catching something from school. Maybe you picked your child up from school and realized half the kids have snot running down their noses. With the pandemic this past year, getting sick at school has been a bit different. For one thing, most kids spent the majority (if not all) … [Read more...]

The Real Reasons Your 4 Year Old Won’t Poop on the Potty

Potty Training

Apr 11, 2021

Worried because your 4 year old won’t poop on potty and is holding it instead? Discover the 6 likely reasons, and what you can do about it. There's something about having an older child who still isn't completely potty trained. The reassurances that your 4 year old will "do it when she's ready" are starting to get old. And you start to worry that she's the only one who still needs a diaper to poop. Maybe she knows to pee in the potty, but until now, refuses to do the same with poop. Or she did poop in the potty in the past, but for one reason or another, is now stubborn about not using … [Read more...]

25 Fun Outdoor Activities for 3 Year Olds

Activities

Feb 23, 2021

Looking for fun, outdoor activities for 3 year olds? Check out these fun ideas for your next outing with your toddler or preschooler! For someone who has yet to go camping for fear of the bathroom "amenities," I still love the outdoors. Even living in an apartment didn't stop me from finding outdoor activities in our city, from hiking to the beach and even our local park. Now that we've moved and are surrounded by hiking trails (not to mention a backyard), being outdoors has become easier. I want my kids to feel the same way about the outdoors. Even when they were toddlers and … [Read more...]

10 Awesome Physical Activities for 3 Year Olds

Activities

Dec 22, 2020

Want physical activities for 3 year olds to get your child moving? Whether indoors or out, discover 10 simple activities perfect for kids! How much can this kid read?! I thought to myself. My then-3 year old was and still is a book worm. He'd spend hours either flipping through books or asking me to read to him (I had once timed how long we read in one day, and the total came up to four hours). If he wasn't reading, he was inspecting his toy fire truck, building train sets, or coloring and drawing. All well and good, except I was starting to think that these activities weren't … [Read more...]

How to Discipline a 4 Year Old When Nothing Seems to Work

Behavior

Dec 15, 2020

Wondering how to discipline a 4 year old who hits, doesn't listen, or is defiant? Get parenting tips to solve challenging behavior problems. "Please tell me this all goes away when kids turn four," I had told a few friends. When we're in the middle of the Terrible Twos or the "Threenager" stage, we assume that defiant behavior disappears once those stages are done. Unfortunately, it doesn't exactly work that way. Sure, behavior takes a huge upswing as kids get older, especially as they learn to communicate and function more independently. But they learn how to behave throughout all of … [Read more...]

How to Respond when Your 3 Year Old Won’t Go to Sleep

Preschooler

Dec 10, 2020

Surprised that your 3 year old won't go to sleep all of a sudden? Learn how to respond that will give you and your child the sleep you need. "Remember when we'd wake up every two hours?" my husband and I reminisced. Three of our friends had given birth within that month, making us shake our heads wondering how we ever got through that newborn stage. By that point, our then-three-year-old had been sleeping through the night—ever since he was six months old, in fact. The sleep deprivation and constant wake-ups had been a thing of the past. And so, it only seemed fitting that as we … [Read more...]

52 Children’s Books for Three Year Olds

Children's Books

Nov 08, 2020

Looking for children's books for 3 year olds? This comprehensive list includes 52 books to read with your child, perfect for the whole year! Your 3 year old likely enjoys reading—no surprise there. In fact, a kindergartener's interest in reading a book outside of school is 100%. But by fourth grade, that interest drops to 54%. That's almost half. What changes in fourth grade? Parents stopped reading to their kids. At some point, your child won't "need" you to read to her. When she can read every word in a book, you might assume that the next logical step is to leave reading to … [Read more...]

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