Baby
Mental development
Synesthesia: a baby’s senses are all mixed up
Your baby’s senses are continually developing. They can hear and feel better than before. And yet, your baby still does…
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Mental development
The importance of mental development
People are inclined to look at the visible end result. Is baby walking already? Can baby talk yet? Of course,…
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Mental development
Things your baby can do but you cannot
Your baby enters this world as a small, helpless creature, and without you they cannot survive. And yet, you will…
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Physical development
When can a child do what?
Everybody would of course like to know when their child will roll over, crawl and walk, but children are not…
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Mental development
Ignoring a baby is disastrous for their brain development
No matter how small your child is they have a dire need for contact with you. That is shown in…
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Physical development
When can my pre-toddler or toddler…?
Up to the age of pre-toddler your baby’s physical, mental and emotional development progresses in gradual steps. The interim steps…
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Parenting
Pre-toddler and toddler tantrums!
Tantrums can occur once your toddler has taken their ninth leap in mental development (at about 15 months). To avoid…
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Leap 5
Your baby and the fear of strangers and separation anxiety
For around seven months, your baby was the world’s biggest people lover. If someone smiled at him or her, they…
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Physical development
Every child develops in their own way
It is well known that there are vast differences in the ages at which children can do something for the…
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Mental development
Your baby’s speech and language development
Every baby develops at their own pace, but what are the milestones in a baby’s speech and language development? A…
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Parenting
Babies and crying
All babies cry. But how do you recognize your baby’s different crying sounds to identify what is wrong? In this…
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Practical
Vacation Checklist: What to take with you for your baby?
Many families take too much when they go on holiday. Logical, because of course you want your baby to miss…
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Guestpost
Leap 1: It doesn’t last forever
Kelsey (30), an American working at Heineken, living a chaotic and beautiful life in Amsterdam with her Dutch boyfriend Rolf…
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Guestpost
Leap 3: An emotional journey
Forest (31) (@dad.ish) to Erin (30), dad to babygirl Sloane (17 weeks) Emotions I became a dad this spring. I get…
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