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WHAT EXACTLY IS TOE WALKING? Toe walking means walking on the balls of the feet, with little or no contact between the heels and the ground. In clinical terms, it’s a "toe-to-toe gait." In the early years, many children experiment, often when they first learn to walk. It's usually nothing to worry about, and typically, they outgrow it by around age two or three as their muscles strengthen and coordination improves. When it needs attention is if the tiptoe pattern persists aft

Imagine this, you’re making breakfast and say, “Do you want rice?” Your child replies, "Want rice… want rice… want rice,” repeating the...

The end of the long holiday and the start of a new school year can be both exciting and challenging for families. Sometimes, parents...

“She often slaps her head so hard anytime she is angry, and it’s scary,” a parent once said. Every parent dreams of raising a child who...

The holidays can bring both joy and fear to parents, especially when raising toddlers or children on the autism spectrum. For children...

We’ve been going for three months. Shouldn’t he be talking by now? Every session costs so much! I need to see results now. All I see the...

My mother says it’s village people. My sister-in-law keeps bringing ‘prayer points.’ My father says there’s nothing wrong.   Suppose...

“We don’t have money for all these special schools and imported toys. What can we even do at home?” - A worried father at Nuture CDC...

What every parents should know before it’s too late As a parent, you must have received a lot of responses when you expressed concerns...

“Sometimes I wonder where he got autism from, or could it be that I didn’t do something right? Nobody in our family has it…” a parent...

In the current digital age, screen time has become an important part of everyone's daily life, including children. Children are...

What an 8-Day Absence Reveals About the Mental Load of Parenting The holiday season is often described as the most wonderful time of the...

"Will my child with autism ever be 'normal?" This question is common among caregivers journeying through the uncertainties and concerns...

Before early intervention comes early diagnosis! Identifying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at the early stage of a child is important in...

Veronica and Benedict are three-year-old twins who are currently diagnosed with autism. Would there be variation manifested in the...

Every parent remembers that heartwarming moment - their baby's first real recognition, a coo, a smile, reaching out with pure, innocent...

Have you ever noticed your baby cooing with their eyes focused on you, then looking back at a toy as if to say, "Look at this interesting...

The Surprising Link Between Mom's Stress and a Child's IQ As parents, we all know stress is an inevitable part of parents life, but did...

Baby talk, also referred to as infant-directed speech, is the way adults naturally modify their speech when interacting with infants and...