Your Growing Child

Using a Baby Monitor? Keep It At Least Three Feet Away!

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Tweet Many parents use monitors when their baby or toddler is sleeping. Using a monitor can provide peace of mind for parents, a set of eyes and ears to help make sure our little ones are safe during nap time or nighttime. It is important though, that these products are positioned correctly in the room…

Meet our Sleep Consultants (Part 2)

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Tweet Part two of our series introducing you to the Sleep Support Team, including why each became a Sleep Consultant, their favorite stories and top product picks for sleep. See Part 1 and Part 3. Looking for products to help your family get a good night’s sleep? See this compilation of our Sleep Consultants’ Top…

Keeping Grandparents & Caregivers Informed About Child Safety Today

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Tweet A recent study presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ national conference in New Orleans on Sunday finds that many grandparents don’t know about today’s safety guidelines for children, such as appropriate sleep position, crib safety and car seat use.  In this study, When asked about the best sleep position for a baby, 33%…

Meet our Sleep Consultants (part 1)

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Tweet Healthy Sleep is always important – for babies, children and adults. This week, Isis celebrates Sleep and our fantastic Sleep Support Program. Our team of seven highly experienced Isis Sleep Consultants – each with extensive sleep support training and a Masters’ Degree in a related area – has completed over 2000 phone-based Sleep Consultations…

Tips for Time Zone Travel With Baby

A little advanced preparation can make time zone travel easier for baby (and for you).

Tweet Watch this recording of our free webinar, Travel, Time Zones & Infant Toddler Sleep with Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans. Planning a far away vacation and worried how it may affect your baby or toddler’s sleeping patterns? Time zone travel is like daylight savings time – multiplied! It usually takes a day for every hour of…

Gearing Up Baby’s Brain to Learn to read

Make it easy for your toddler to reach their very own books. It turns out that early ownership of books makes a difference in a child’s attitude toward reading down the road.

Tweet Evidence from brain science strongly suggests we can warm up and stimulate the young child’s brain for learning to read. Exciting new research using neuroimaging techniques reveal that parts of the brain develop for reading as early as infancy. A particular region of the left hemisphere of the brain becomes highly aroused by the…

Tips for Eating Out with Your Baby or toddler

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Tweet We asked Isis parents what tips they have for taking your baby or toddler out to eat at a restaurant. Here’s what they recommend: Before you go: Check out the menu online beforehand so you can order everyone’s food as soon as you sit down. – Erin F. With a newborn, go out for…

Empowering Toddlers in the Kitchen

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Tweet If you are, or have been, the parent of a toddler, you understand the struggles that occur around meal time or eating in general. As a mother, I know the frustrations and emotions that accompany meal time, and as an educator, I understand why the struggle occurs. When I am able to put aside…