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6 years old

Age 6

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Your 6-year-old: Milestones and development
Learn why your 6-year-old is twirling her hair or biting her nails, how to handle a picky eater, and how to stay out of power struggles with your child.
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Your 6-year-old: Welcome to 6
Sixes love poems, rhymes, and nonsense words. They love to be read to and hear stories that feed their imaginations.
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Your 6-year-old: Bad habits
Hair twisting, nail biting, and other bad habits.
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Your 6-year-old: Power plays
Getting snared in a power struggle with a 6-year-old can be tough to avoid.
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Your 6-year-old: Asking questions
Your child is still a concrete thinker but may now be curious about abstract subjects.
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Your 6-year-old: Picky eaters
How to handle picky eaters.
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Your 6-year-old: Creating a library
What books should be in a good first library? Here are some guidelines.
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Your 6-year-old: Soothing routines
Structure makes children feel safe. They have something to hold onto amid all the anxiety and know what to expect.
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Your 6-year-old: Handling accidents
At 6, your child is learning the difference between accidental and intentional behaviors.
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Your 6-year-old: Your social butterfly
Six-year-olds become quite social in their play.
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Your 6-year-old: Eye problems
Vision problems often surface in the early school years.
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Your 6-year-old: Bedtime battles
Even once-reliable sleepers sometimes have trouble going to bed and staying there.
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Your 6-year-old: Growing up
Your child will double his weight by the time he reaches adolescence.
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Age 6 1/4

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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Milestones and development
Find out how to coax a slowpoke and how to get your child to take her medicine. Learn how to encourage a positive body image and how much sleep your child needs now.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Getting good rest
A full day of school can wear out even most active 6-year-old to tire by the end of the day.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Making choices
Making choices can be hard for sixes.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Slowpoke strategies
Dawdling is normal behavior for sixes. Get strategies for dealing with your little daydreamer.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Table manners
Children in families who eat together tend to have better nutrition.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Playing fair
Your child is still learning right from wrong and what it means to play fair.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Playing together
Parent-child playtime ideas that help kids' bodies and minds grow
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Black-and-white thinking
Your child may have trouble seeing the middle ground of anything. Sixes tend to be either ecstatic or down in the dumps.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Helping medicine go down
Taking medicine is non-negotiable. But there's often a better way to deliver it.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Learning from mistakes
You've probably heard of logical consequences. This discipline tactic involves finding a punishment that suits the crime.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Sending clear messages
Children are adept at reading nonverbal cues.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Chores
Your child will feel proud and useful when you give her jobs to do.
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Your 6 1/4-year-old: Encouraging manners
Help your 6-year-old learn good manners by continuing to model and reinforce basic etiquette.

Age 6 1/2

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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Milestones and development
Learn which after-school activities are best for 6-year-olds, what to do if your child ignores you, how to manage screen time, and how to keep her safe from strangers.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Managing media
Many parents limit screen time by keeping TVs and computers in a central place, out of their child's bedroom.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Sleepovers
Preparing for a sleepover party helps ensure your child's safety and makes a homesick phone call less likely.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Screen-time limits
What happens if your child is obsessed with computer games?
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Dealing with ignoring
What to do when your child ignores your requests.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Extracurricular activities
Tips for finding the best after-school and weekend activities for your child.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Snack attack
Nutritious snacks can bridge the long gap between lunch and dinner for a school-age child.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Understanding fairness
How to help your 6-year-old understand rules and fairness
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Is it ADHD?
If your child is impulsive and has trouble paying attention and sitting still, could it be ADD?
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Field trips
Field trips are invaluable learning experiences. Visits to places read about in books help expand a child's view of the world.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Bath time
Bath time offers a great transition between going full throttle all day and winding down at night.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Stranger danger
This is a good time to stress messages about stranger danger and safety.
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Your 6 1/2-year-old: Collecting
Arranging a beloved collection so others can see makes your child feel proud.

Age 6 3/4

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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Milestones and development
Learn how to nurture your child's enthusiasm for reading and how to prepare for parent-teacher conferences. Find out how to teach him to tell time and how to praise him.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: The power of positivity
Helping your child understand that good behavior can have positive consequences.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Telling time
Get tips for helping your child learn to tell time.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Sweets and treats
Most children have a natural sweet tooth, and trying to ban sugar completely is a losing battle.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: What's next?
What can you expect as your child stands on the brink of 7?
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Pile on the praise
A few words of praise can defuse a tense situation or head off a tantrum.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Is your child gifted?
Is your child gifted? And should parents label their kids at this early age?
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Potty mouth
Young kids curse for a variety of reasons – which are worth remembering when your ears are burning and your blood pressure's rising.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Raising a reader
As your child begins to read, your challenge is to keep nurturing his enthusiasm for the printed word.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Parent-teacher conferences
You have many years of parent-teacher conferences ahead. Find out how to get the most out of these meetings.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Wanting privacy
Your child may be developing a new sense of privacy.
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Talking back
Tactics for dealing with talking backl
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Your 6 3/4-year-old: Dealing with death
Answering questions about death and helping your child through it.

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