Often, when we look at the development of children, or watch our own children develop, we are often mystified as to how something occurred. One minute our child was laying on the floor and the next, he was flipped over. We tend to forget the practice involved in the whole experience, the weeks of the [...]

When my son was an infant I was constantly being asked, “So is he crawling yet?”  When I would say, “No, not yet,” I would get a concerned glance and then a, “Oh, don’t worry, he’ll crawl soon.”  I wasn’t actually nervous but as each person reflected their own opinion on the matter I quickly began to [...]