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Your child will grow and change so much over the years, it can be hard to keep up. Find out more about the physical, social and emotional, and language development milestones to expect, and get great ideas for taming tantrums, handling potty training and bedtime battles, feeding picky eaters, choosing a preschool, starting elementary school, and more.

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  • Working Parents
    How do you manage it all???
    By Navylady88
    I'm genuinely curious how everyone manages things like preschool drop off and pick up for those who work and don't have in laws or family nearby to help (drop off is 8:50am and pickup is 11:50 for am, pm is 1250pm-3:50pm which isnt any better. We do an in home daycare for our oldest and our infant w
    06-23-23 by RSTchick2019
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    Did I fail? Still not Potty trained in time for preschool
    By EMLEMw123789
    I have been doing various methods to get my son (7/18 birthday) potty trained to no avail. I got him into a private preschool which was a headache enrollment wise and hard to get into but he had to be fully potty trained which he is not STILL. It kills me but now looks like he cannot go there and it
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    When did you guys send your toddler to preschool?
    By AuriellasMommy
    I’m a work from home mom who plans on homeschooling my daughter and I was curious when you guys typically sent your children to preschool. My daughter is only 18 months old, but I was thinking of starting preschool at 2 years old. I know that that’s on the early end of when they can start, but she i
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