Early childhood education is beneficial for children ages 3, 4 and 5. It's also often referred to as preschool, pre-kindergarten, day care, nursery school or early education. No matter the name, each serves the same purpose: to prepare young children for their transition into elementary school.

When your child blinks excessively for no apparent reason, she may be experiencing a nervous tic. If you find your child is displaying erratic movements or voicing inappropriate garble, have her evaluated for a tic disorder, because early intervention can help her thrive despite unwanted behavior.

Your child is finally old enough to begin pre-K. You worry, though, that he may not have the necessary skills to begin school with other children his age. The knowledge a preschooler needs to know before taking this big step is not extensive but provides a framework on which he will build and develop new skills.

If your child's voice suddenly sounds husky, scratchy or weak, it's possible that he is suffering from hoarseness. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, hoarseness is most often caused by inflammation to the larynx. However, other conditions may have caused your child's hoarseness.

Children are often attracted to the interesting shapes and bright colors of blooming flowers. While exploring the backyard flower garden or examining the flower arrangement on your dinning room table, curiosity may get the best of your child and he might decide to touch or eat one of the flowers.

Your chronological age, that is, the number of years since the day of your birth, does not always align with what psychologists term your “mental age.

If you are trying to teach English to small kids, the good news is children are incredibly adapted to learning languages, and pick up new words, phrases and grammar structures easily.

Human development is a lifelong process beginning before birth and extending to death. At each moment in life, every human being is in a state of personal evolution.

Are children born with a universal language syntax encoded, as it were, in their DNA — so that learning to speak and write is just a matter of fitting the particulars of their language into this template? Or, is language acquisition a more complex and subtle process of learning and thinking?

Braces, which help to realign teeth or the jaw area, consist of bands, wires and brackets that hold a child's teeth in place.

Children may not quite understand the concept of money in terms of cost and what constitutes a good value, but most kids like money because they know you need money to buy things you want.

The decision to send your child away to school is often a difficult, emotional decision. But for parents of children with behavioral problems, it is often the only decision.