Toddler Growth and Development

Read what you should do when your three-year-old's preschool teachers label him "overactive."

Learn how to tell when your child is ready to potty train.

Purchased games and toys have little relevance to healthy child development. Play, however, figures prominently in healthy child development.

Learn the best way to handle bowel control problems in school-age children.

This behavior is probably normal. Seventeen months is that difficult age when toddlers are learning to control themselves and the world around them.

A normal child's speech has progressively improved clarity -- roughly half intelligible by two years of age, moving toward fully intelligible by four years.

If a child is making progress, don't push him. When he is good and ready, he will have his bowel movements on the toilet.

Patience is called for in potty training, because "Mother Nature" does need to be included in this decision process.

Children who are rapid learners or are more intelligent don't necessarily potty train earlier.

Three-year-olds aren't able use words at all times when they are angry, frustrated, or frightened.

A mother is concerned when her child's teacher talks about her son's "sloppy coloring and handwriting."

Most often these lumps are normal lymph nodes -- "glands" that we all have in various parts of our bodies.

Give your child the power to dictate some time alone with you, doing something with him that he would like to do. Do this on a regular basis.

Expert advice for a mother whose son fears "falling into" the toilet.

You have to be relaxed about potty training. A child will make his own decision about when he wants to use the toilet to defecate.