Toddlers

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.

What steps can a mother take when her preschooler is rejected by teachers who say they can't cope with him?

Age four is a bit early to be introduced to this degree of bathroom humor and body curiosity, but it's not of serious concern in and of itself.

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

Unfortunately, you have created a ritualized bedtime sleep pattern and nighttime awakening pattern that has your child needing your presence to fall asleep.

A teacher asks how she can teach a 4-1/2-year-old boy that it's not right to kick or bite people in her classroom.

It is normal for children to test limits and try to get their way, as they shape their independent personality.

The parent of a four-year-old is advised how to help her child learn to go to his own bed and fall asleep on his own.

An expert evaluates the possible reasons for a five-year-old's temper tantrums in public places.

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

A recently divorced mother wonders whether her four-year-old needs counseling.

Disciplining a child while he is throwing a tantrum and/or hitting and screaming is impossible.

A pediatric neurologist or a doctor who treats childhood sleep problems should evaluate your seven-year-old.

Find out the difference between night (or sleep) terrors and nightmares, which are two separate parasomnias (sleep disturbances).

There is more to this family problem than just your husband's responses to your daughter's nighttime bedwetting.

Disciplining a two-year-old and a six-year-old are very different challenges.