11. Tips for Diaper Rash
What have you tried that works to relieve your toddler's pain and heal diaper rash? Share your diaper rash remedies with other parents.
12. Your Favorite Small Motor Activities
Activities like playdough and finger painting are so much fun for toddlers but they're tools for learning as well. They increase fine motor skills and get toddlers ready for writing and self-help tasks like using snaps and buttons. Do you have favorite fine motor activities that you do with your toddler or class? Share them with others here.
13. What Was Your Child's First Word?
Your child's first word is one you'll always remember. Share your child's first word and the story behind why that word is so special.
14. Date Night Dinners
The kids are with your grandparents or at the sitter and you finally have the house all to yourself for a romantic dinner. Now, what do you do? Whip up a sumptuous feast solo, cook a meal together or order delicious take out? Share your favorite date night dinners with other readers.
15. What Does Your Toddler Paint With?
Toddlers love to paint with brushes, but other items around the house (like forks and sponges) are just as fun. Do you ever use anything out of the ordinary to paint with your toddler? Share your unique painting tools.
16. Green Easter Tips
Sometimes holidays and celebrations have a disposable nature and this can be one of the last places where we make changes that have already been applied in other areas of our lives. Here, get new tips or share any ideas, large or small, that you're implementing to make Easter a more environmentally friendly celebration in your family.
17. Picky Eater Tips
Gone are the days when your child would eat pretty much anything you loaded onto a spoon. Now it's macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets, pizza and grilled cheese without crusts. You want your toddler to eat more nutritious food. You want your toddler to eat a variety of food. But you also don't want to withhold the few foods he will eat for fear he won't eat anything at all. So, how do you cope? How do you get your toddler to eat more than just his favorites? Do you sneak it in? Have you ever told your toddler a little white lie to get him to eat something new? Get parenting tips on dealing with a picky eater or share your own tips.
18. Toddler Board Books
What are the board books your toddler fell in love with? Are they the same books you loved as a child? Get tips on good toddler board books or share your toddler's favorites.
19. Sit or Stand to Pee?
Many parents teach their sons to stand up in order to urinate, but some parents teach their boys to sit to pee because of cultural customs or in the hopes that it will help him make learn to go poop sooner since he's already sitting down. Others do so to avoid excess spray all over the toilet seat. Still others find that no matter what they try and teach, their sons have a preference of their own. What have you taught your sons about which way to urinate and why was this your choice?
20. Fun Things to Do Outside
Toddlers love being outside and coming up with new games to play and activities to explore keeps them active and healthy. What are some of the things you do outside with your toddler? Learn what other parents are doing outdoors with their toddlers or share your toddler's favorite games and activities with other parents.