Toddlers

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.

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.

Most often these lumps are normal lymph nodes -- "glands" that we all have in various parts of our bodies.

Give your child the power to dictate some time alone with you, doing something with him that he would like to do. Do this on a regular basis.

Developmentally, children show tremendous individual differences in how frequently and for how long they nap, as well as when they stop napping.

Our expert provides advice on helping a child make the transition from her parents' bed to her own.

You have to be relaxed about potty training. A child will make his own decision about when he wants to use the toilet to defecate.

Expert advice for a mother whose son fears "falling into" the toilet.