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There is so much information on children and child development out there–each new study seems to say something different than the last. We can hardly keep up! One cool website that makes life a little easier by tracking breakthrough research on child development is the Children topic section at LiveScience.com. Here you can keep up with the latest scientific studies on how your little one’s mind works and what can best help her or him to succeed in life.

Now when it comes to choosing the best toys for toddler and young child development, you can take it a step further and have child development experts do it for you over at eBeanstalk.com. Each toy on their site is expert-selected and categorized by the child’s age. In fact if a child in your life has an upcoming birthday, you might consider ordering a gift series (with free shipping!) for them. Ebeanstalk.com will automatically send out a new toy every 3 months throughout the year, each tailored to your child’s mental development! Pretty cool, eh! We love the service and the customer service over at are extremely friendly and helpful.

These days you can both stay on top of the latest research on child development and have expert-recommended toddler toys and best-selling learning toys delivered to your doorstep!

From the experts over at eBeanstalk.com, this is another article on how to get your toddler to behave:

How Do I Get My Child to Say ‘Yes’?
By: Shari Harpaz, CCC-SLP (Speech-Language
Pathologist)

Does your child often respond ‘no’ when you ask them a question? When asked a ‘yes’ or ‘no’, most children will respond ‘no’ more often than ‘yes.’

Toddlers and pre-schoolers are at an age when they are egocentric and/or establishing independence (see all milestones). By saying ‘no’ they are making a clear statement that they don’t want to do something and now your hands are tied if you really needed them to do it. So what should a parent do?

Here are some tips to help get more of the response you’re looking for:

1. Try and ask questions in a “what”? Or “where”? Format instead of yes/no whenever possible. For example: if you’re child is pointing and you can’t determine what they want instead of saying “Do you want juice?” and having to go thru a list of items, ask “what do you want?”

2. Give your child a choice of 2-3 things you are willing to give them. (“Do you want to go to the park or to the book store”)? This way they feel empowered that they chose the activity, and you didn’t have to negotiate after a ‘no’ response.

3. Sometimes your best option is to simply TELL your child that this is what you are going to do/eat/have etc. Remember you’re the parent and know what’s best so don’t let your little negotiators always get their way!

For some activities that don’t involve ‘yes/no’ answers, check out…

You pick the game you want to play: Hand Picked Games at ebeanstalk.com

Which puzzle do you want to play with: Hand Picked Puzzles by the ebeanstalk.com Team of Mothers

Let’s “Pretend Play” and have some fun: Hand Picked Pretend Toys by the ebeanstalk.com Team of Experts

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We came across a new article from LiveScience.com at Yahoo! News, titled “Why Toddlers Don’t Do What They’re Told.” As Destiny Baby is now in his twos, you know we had to investigate. The article reports on a study of behavior among 3-and-a-half-year-olds and 8-year-olds. Findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The neat things is that the study dispels the idea of kids as “little adults” who cannot do things as well. Rather, their minds work very differently.

Using pupil diameter to measure mental effort after asking the two groups of children to follow a sequence of activities, the punchline is that you cannot require your toddler to prepare for the future. No matter how much you tell them it is cold outside, that won’t make them get their coats. You have to try to mentally put them in the conflict or choice that will elicit the behavior you want. As the article notes, “3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it.” Useful to think about when doing educational learning activities with your little one!