Babies don’t like doing errands or sitting through a church service all that much. So smart moms bring interesting treats in the diaper...

A baby is too young to talk, but he is not too young to take his first steps in reading: sit in a lap if one is available, turn the...

We just painted the girls’ bedroom pink. Actually, when I worked in the florist shop, we called that dark, heavy version of pink, “Pank.”...

What color is that? How can she know? We moms must tell her. The pink sock color is not the same as the pink shoe color or the pink tutu...

A child’s last name is just as important as his first name. When we asked Edie her last name, she told us it was “Boo.” Edie is three....

In English (and in Chinese) the same word can mean totally different things. The ring on mama’s finger is nothing like the ring of a...

One year olds like dumping and filling. When big sisters are making Lego cars, Carter wants to put all the Legos back in the box. Then he...

What does an umbrella do? Edie says it keeps her warm, because when she and her mother got caught in the rain with no umbrella, they were...

Sometimes grown-ups don’t understand how tricky some words are. We think a child understands the tricky word after when he understands...

Carter is beginning to talk. We are all having a hard time understanding what he wants because he tries to talk in a long string of...