Help your toddler explore new foods and flavors with Motherly’s toddler nutrition resources, featuring tips and advice from real mamas.

5. All emotions are useful.

The tune can calm my toddler's tantrum and soothe my newborn's cries—I can't deny its power.

As the final weeks go by and we near the arrival of our newest family member, I'm growing less anxious and more excited about how my toddler will react to being a big brother.

She was just starting to babble and say ‘Mama’ like, a couple of weeks ago, wasn’t it?

If life goes according to plan, I'll have one more when I'm 29 and, by 30, my husband and I will be selling car seats, hitting the tail end of diapers and settling into life as a minivan family.

By understanding your child's temperament, you are able to approach parenting situations with a new lens of knowledge.

3. Keep connection at the center of the process

Here's what parents need to know.

4. "Tell me about your picture."

Just in time for Christmas.

No scary monsters necessary.

5. Provide fewer toys, each with a clear place

Discover playful ways to teach empathy to your toddler through engaging toys and fun activities parents can try at home.

"I'm not running in spite of my daughter; I'm running because of my daughter," says Caitlin Clarkson Pereira.

A world of culture is right at their fingertips.

We have to believe that it happens

The tools for turning rough mornings into pleasant ones are in our hands.

During the waiting, time changes shape. I can wait for half an hour and think it's been five minutes, and it happens the other way around too. I always feel like I should be using my time more productively, but I'm afraid to make a sound and I can't focus on anything anyways.