A Note from Faith: Rather than giving children 70% of your attention all the time, try alternating periods of “direct attention” (100% of your focus) with being “physically-busy-but-emotionally-available” (20-30% of…
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Your Social Toddler
List of posts in Your Social Toddler Play & ActivitiesApril 1, 2019A Note from Faith: Rather than giving children 70% of your attention all the time, try alternating periods of…
Harmonious Home Life
A Note from Faith: We all long to enjoy our time with our children, and can feel deep guilt when we find ourselves counting down the time till our child…
Discipline & Connecting
A Note from Faith: The research on parenting outcomes is really clear: children do best when the adults in their lives have high levels of warmth, PAIRED WITH high expectations.…
Welcome to my website
I’m so glad you found Joyful Toddlers!; please look around. I believe that children—just like the rest of us—long to live a life in which they feel connected, feel competent,…
Joyful Toddlers and Preschoolers
Create a Life that You and Your Child Both Love…
A Playful Way to Teach Kids to Control their Anger
A friend recently sent me a link to THIS STORY by NPR about a researcher in the 1970s who noticed that the Inuit community where she was staying had very…
Holiday Book Sale
Many of my readers don’t know that my mom is none other than Rahima Baldwin Dancy, author of the classic early childhood book You Are Your Child’s First Teacher. Up…
Holiday Craft Projects with Kids
Children thrive when we slow down and do things with a “sense of spaciousness”: the attitude that we have enough attention for our task AND the child(ren), and that we…
How To Avoid the Terrible Twos
Everywhere you look, the message about toddlers is that they are “terrible,” that their favorite word is NO, and that they’re using all of their energy to become independence from…
Bath-Time Hair Washing
Dear Miss Faith, My 2yo son screams bloody murder every time I wash his hair. I’m ever so slow and careful, but nothing seems to help. He particularly hates it…
Verbal Apraxia and Motor Planning
Something I haven’t talked about much here on the Joyful Toddlers blog is the fact that my daughter (who is four and a half now, as I’m writing this) was…