Welcome back to the Babies Online Blog! If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and be the first to get breaking parenting news and take advantage of our member only giveaways. Thanks for visiting!We are in the middle of the spring thaw, and snow, and thaw again. Then [...]
Tags: Free, puddles, spring, springtime, Toddlers, walking
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How do even the tiniest babies know that your attention is not 100% on them? Telephones are fascinating to little children. The phone rings, mom drops everything to go and talk to it. Kids are curious, what is it about this little plastic object with the buttons on that has so much power over mom?
And [...]
Tags: babies, telephone, Toddlers, working at home
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I’ve never been the kind of person to refer to the dog as my furry baby, or buy her outfits, or attempt to carry her around in a fluffy pink crystal embellished dog handbag. Still, I love my dog and I think she’s a bit fond of me, in a “oh, there’s that person who [...]
Tags: cats, crawling, dogs, newborns, pets, Toddlers
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Apparently, it’s not because they want to make us tear out our hair. Researchers at the University of Colorado have been studying toddlers and older children, and they’ve decided that toddlers just don’t think the way adults and older children do.
Toddlers live in the present, as the parent of any toddler knows very well. Only [...]
Tags: brain development, learning, Research, Toddlers
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In November last year, Megan Howard was babysitting a toddler. She gave the little girl her breakfast, then left the room to use the bathroom leaving the little girl eating a pop tart.
While she was gone, the toddler started choking. But Megan’s Quaker parrot, Willie, raised the alarm by flapping his wings and squawking “Mama! [...]
Tags: American Heart Association, choking, CPR, parrots, pop tarts, red cross, Toddlers
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