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: BABESIDE Doll and Stroller Children’s Toys Recalled; The recalled toys violate the small parts ban. Get replacement. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/BABESIDE-Doll-and-Stroller-Childrens-Toys-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Choking-Hazard-Violate-Small-Parts-Ban-Sold-on-Amazon-by-HYBDOLLS

: Orb Funkee Squeeze Toys; The recalled Orb Funkee squeeze toys may contain fibrous tremolite (asbestos) in the sand, which can cause adverse health issues if inhaled. Take toys away from children immediately. Get refund. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Orb-Funkee-Squeeze-Toys-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Asbestos-Exposure-Imported-by-The-Orb-Factory

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Happy 32nd anniversary Ms Mary! Your dedication, hard work, & commitment over the years have made a lasting impact on everyone around you. Your smiling face greeting everyone each morning is truly a blessing. We appreciate your loyalty to us & your love for children💜

Before age 3, children learn at an incredible pace, but the most important lessons are not memorizing facts. Early growth depends more on building strong foundations that support learning, relationships, and emotional wellbeing for many years ahead.

One key skill is emotional regulation. Children need help calming, waiting, and recovering from frustration. This begins through co-regulation with caring adults who respond calmly and consistently. These early experiences teach the nervous system how to feel safe and steady.

Another essential skill is communication. Long before reading, children learn through eye contact, gestures, sounds, and conversation. Talking with them, listening, naming feelings, and responding to cues builds language, trust, and confidence that supports future learning in school.

The third skill is secure connection. Warm relationships help children explore the world with confidence. When they know support is available, they take healthy risks, solve problems, and return for comfort when needed. Attachment becomes a base for growth.

ABCS and numbers can come later with greater ease when these foundations are strong. Parents do not need perfect lessons or pressure-filled routines. Loving interaction, steady boundaries, and responsive care are powerful teaching tools. Strong beginnings are built through connection every day.

We get it. Doing more for our children feels like love, and it comes from a good place. We want to give, support, help, and create the best experience possible for them.

But this is where it gets uncomfortable, because more is not always better. When we constantly do for them, provide things they don’t actually need, entertain them, or step in to remove every bit of struggle, it can start to fill our own cup more than theirs. It can look like support, but it often replaces the very experiences that build real growth.

Children build competency, confidence, patience, gratitude, regulation, decision-making, and autonomy by doing, feeling, waiting, trying, and figuring things out. When we rush in, redirect, or distract, we take those opportunities away, and it also sends a quieter message that’s easy to miss. It shows them that we can’t sit still, we can’t tolerate discomfort, and that what’s happening right now isn’t enough.

A lot of this comes from a place many parents carry, which is the feeling that we aren’t doing enough. Without realizing it, that pressure gets passed onto our children and begins to get in the way of what they actually need most. When we keep adding more, we end up taking away the very things that support their development.

This is where the shift happens. Children need you to step back and do less, not because they need less of you, but because they need more space to do for themselves. They need less entertaining, less interrupting, less fixing, and less filling of every moment, so there is room for what actually matters.

What they need is your presence in a real and undivided way, not being side by side while both distracted or constantly moving to the next thing. They need connection through conversations at the dinner table, a slow walk outside, and time that isn’t rushed or overly structured. They need long stretches of unstructured, child-led play, along with space to feel the full range of emotions without being pulled out of it simply because it is uncomfortable to witness.

Doing less can feel like you’re not doing enough, but in many ways, it is exactly what they need most.

We’re going deeper into what this looks like in real life, how overstimulation shows up in children, and what actually supports regulation and attention in our upcoming webinar: The Overstimulated Child: Why Boredom Matters More Than Ever

📅 April 29th ⏰ 12:00 PM EST

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