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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:39:33 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Preschoolers (3-4 year olds)</title><subtitle>Preschoolers (3-4 year olds)</subtitle><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/atom.xml"/><updated>2011-09-26T00:16:30Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Our three year old is rough with our new baby. How can we stop him and protect her?</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/9/25/our-three-year-old-is-rough-with-our-new-baby-how-can-we-sto.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/9/25/our-three-year-old-is-rough-with-our-new-baby-how-can-we-sto.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2011-09-26T00:14:12Z</published><updated>2011-09-26T00:14:12Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[We need some ideas for handling our almost three year old  Nicky and our new baby.  He seems delighted with her, but he's so enthusiastic . . .]]></summary></entry><entry><title>I can't talk on the phone when my child is around!</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/5/3/i-cant-talk-on-the-phone-when-my-child-is-around.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/5/3/i-cant-talk-on-the-phone-when-my-child-is-around.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2011-05-04T02:32:12Z</published><updated>2011-05-04T02:32:12Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Our three year old interrupts me whenever I try to make a call . . .]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Special Time: the best advice you'll ever get</title><category term="3-4 yrs"/><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/4/29/special-time-the-best-advice-youll-ever-get.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/4/29/special-time-the-best-advice-youll-ever-get.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2011-04-29T07:04:56Z</published><updated>2011-04-29T07:04:56Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[If I had a magic wand for parents, it would be this: daily special time.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Our three year old is hitting other children!</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/2/17/our-three-year-old-is-hitting-other-children.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2011/2/17/our-three-year-old-is-hitting-other-children.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2011-02-17T18:54:05Z</published><updated>2011-02-17T18:54:05Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Our three year old boy is a delight--most of the time.  But more often than we like, he gets rough with us and his friends.  He’s been known to hit, push, whack--you name it.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Our three-year-old is suddenly afraid to leave us</title><category term="3-4 yrs"/><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2010/7/17/our-three-year-old-is-suddenly-afraid-to-leave-us.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2010/7/17/our-three-year-old-is-suddenly-afraid-to-leave-us.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2010-07-17T20:06:23Z</published><updated>2010-07-17T20:06:23Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Our three-year-old used to be quite bold. In the past few months, however, we've noticed that he seems fearful in a lot of situations . . .]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The first day of kindergarten</title><category term="3-4 yrs"/><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2010/7/15/the-first-day-of-kindergarten.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/2010/7/15/the-first-day-of-kindergarten.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2010-07-15T17:59:46Z</published><updated>2010-07-15T17:59:46Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[In just a few weeks, a new group of five-year-olds will be starting kindergarten, their first step into the world of "real school".  Even when a child has been in group child care for many years, the threshold of the kindergarten door is a passageway to a new kind of relationship between the child and his teachers . . .]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Our three-year-old keeps wetting his pants!</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/our-three-year-old-keeps-wetting-his-pants.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/our-three-year-old-keeps-wetting-his-pants.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2010-06-07T00:16:26Z</published><updated>2010-06-07T00:16:26Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Our son Max is three. He has been toilet trained for months. He uses the potty or the toilet at home and at pre-school with hardly any help.  But anywhere else he almost always wets his pants . . .]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Should we let our child suck her thumb?</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/should-we-let-our-child-suck-her-thumb.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/should-we-let-our-child-suck-her-thumb.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2010-06-07T00:10:11Z</published><updated>2010-06-07T00:10:11Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Our three-year-old Jamie is sweet and bright and pretty.  Her only “flaw” is that in between playing or talking or running around, she’s likely to be sitting somewhere sucking her thumb. . .]]></summary></entry><entry><title>I get so angry at my kids . . . what to do?</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/i-get-so-angry-at-my-kids-what-to-do.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/i-get-so-angry-at-my-kids-what-to-do.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2010-04-04T19:08:09Z</published><updated>2010-04-04T19:08:09Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Sometimes I don’t know who gets angrier—me or my three-year-old!  At first I might be nice, then I get irritated, then I explode!]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Is my child going to be ready for kindergarten?</title><id>http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/is-my-child-going-to-be-ready-for-kindergarten.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bringingupkids.com/3-4-yrs/is-my-child-going-to-be-ready-for-kindergarten.html"/><author><name>Meg Zweiback, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner -</name></author><published>2010-02-16T22:26:20Z</published><updated>2010-02-16T22:26:20Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[My neighbor just told me that after three months of kindergarten, her son has been identified as “at risk” for passing! Now I'm worried about my own child . . .]]></summary></entry></feed>
