Our planet is an amazing place, but it needs our help to thrive! That’s why each year on April 22, more than a billion people celebrate Earth Day to protect the planet from things like pollution and deforestation.

Check out these Earth Day ideas to help save the planet any time of year.

Some children are born with the natural love of vegetables while other children despise these healthy food options. As your children grow older they start to develop a sense of independence with their preferred likes and dislikes. This often comes in the form of having a child who refuses to eat vegetables.

Parents hear a lot of concerns about television and media exposure for very young children. Screen time for children is definitely on the increase. Children are watching 35 hours of television and other media a week, on average.

Is your toddler a picky eater? Feeding a toddler is often a thankless task. Since they began to walk, metabolisms have slowed down, and toddlers need less to eat. Unfortunately, they want to control everything they put into their mouths and rarely want what you offer.

As your child reaches their second year in life they’ll begin to develop a view of themselves as separate and independent from you. This is mostly due to toddlers having gained control over their physical movements. Your toddler can now pull away from you and explore things that were formerly out of reach.

St. Paddy’s Day is a fun time for kids all month long! Sure you can wear your cutest St. Patrick’s Day outfit on March 17, but all month long, break out all the green you have, it’s time to get the festivities rolling with some fun St. Patrick’s Day activities. Luckily, there are so plenty of great ideas for the whole family to engage in all month long.

Separation and stranger anxiety can present an alarming change for parents because the baby can be happy and calm one day and quite disturbed the next. Like many other big changes during your baby’s development, separation and stranger anxiety is normal.

The following chart outlines the stage of attachment, the parent’s role, and the preschool teacher’s role.

Knowing what to expect from children at various stages of development can help with childcare, preschool and parenting. As parents, this information will help you navigate parenthood properly.

The entire process of potty training your child can take anywhere from six months to twelve months from the day they start exhibiting the signs that they’re ready.

Nothing is more touching to new parents than the cry of their baby, but your crying baby may present a dilemma to you. If you respond promptly to crying, you might feel you will spend all of your time responding to crying. A good understanding of the causes of crying and the consequences of letting children cry without a prompt adult response will help you approach crying children in the best way possible.

Children ages birth to three years learns differently than older children. Young children tend to learn through their senses of tasting, touching, hearing, seeing, and smelling more so than from adult instruction or preschool worksheets.

Success in achieving age- and stage-appropriate autonomy and independence throughout childhood has a profound impact on the way children mature. Children are naturally motivated to make things happen.

As you get to know your baby, there will be many parenting decisions you have to make. Many of these decisions seem very difficult when you are faced with them, but can be considered rather directly. Let’s talk about three important issues that you might face as a new parent.

There are some tools that parents use to help a toddler recognize the time has arrived for picking up their things. You can use an egg timer to ding in five minutes after giving your toddler a five-minute warning that clean up time is arriving. Giving your toddler a visual or noise-maker signal when you want them to switch gears will help your toddler develop a natural routine for picking up their toys.

Remember those chaotic days when your baby knew no difference between days and nights. It appeared that you wouldn’t get past this phase of sleeplessness and overwhelm.

But you did!

Those days are over now and you can get some sleep at night. Still, this sleep is not enough. You want more peace. The good news is that you can have it.

The key lies in empowering our children to be more independent. And empowering independent yet sound and healthy sleep in your children is just one favor you can do to yourself.

So, how do you do it? Here’s a complete guide

The unstructured play has nearly endless benefits for a child’s development and young kids should be allowed to spend most of their time playing. However, giving your children chores has its advantages too.

With the busy holiday season coming to a close, it's tempting to spend New Year's Day horizontal on the couch in your most comfortable pajamas, doing a whole lot of nothing. After a whirlwind month of holiday chaos (not to mention a potentially late New Year's Eve night), doing nothing might be exactly what you think you need. And after a crazy 2020, we really can't blame you!

Make the most of the holiday season and spend some special moments with your family. Print this list of festive activities to hang on your fridge, and check them off as you go along.

As you may or may not have realized by now, parenting in the 21st century is a lot different from the

experience we might have had as children decades ago. In fact, nowadays there are all these new

problems with which parents are faced as they give birth to digital natives, who seem to exit the womb

with computer, tablet and smartphone know - how.