Babies learn through sight and touch. Help him explore by keeping the world within his grasp.

Set physical challenges for your baby to solve. It will also stimulate her cognitive development.

How do infants learn? By stimulation of the five senses.

Provide variety in your child’s life to promote brain growth.

Ease your baby's transition to bedtime.

Enrich your baby's observation skills with rotating visual experiences.

Find out why you should respect and treasure your child’s play, even if you don’t understand it.

Is the “oh-oh” game driving you crazy? Your baby genius is actually discovering Newton's 3rd Law of Motion.

This learning tip can be done anywhere to keep your baby busy—and busy learning.

Learn how to help your child build problem solving skills through playtime fun.

Is every animal your baby sees a doggie? She will quickly learn to discern differences and similarities.

Support your child as she begins to make sense of the world.

Help your baby develop a sense of sequence and establish routines.

This ubiquitous method of soothing babies (and most children!) tends to have repetitive words and melodies, making them easy to transmit from generation to generation.

Babies cry. What to do? Over the years, pediatricians have advocated various responses, including letting them just cry it out. Will picking your baby up when he cries spoil him?

Several decades ago, Jill and Peter de Villiers wrote a book on language acquisition that described interactions between mothers and their infants as a dance.

Your baby has been happy to be passed from grandma to your sister to the new sitter without much fuss. But, now, all of a sudden, she clings to you like there’s no tomorrow. What’s up?

Peek-a-boo engages and entertains babies while teaching them much about the world. Your baby learns to predict a regular pattern—that you’ll come back!