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How To: Use a receiving blanket to support your baby

Check out this video to learn how to use a receiving blanket to support your baby.

How To: Wash your baby carrier

Check out this video to learn how to wash your baby carrier.

How To: Deal with children's fever

Learn how to deal with children's fever, from Henry Joseph Hasson, MD Pediatric Neurologist at Children's Hospital at Montefiore.

How To: Spend quality time with your parents

Hanging out with the folks can be fun. Really, trust us. This video gives tips on how to obtain a better relationship with your parents.

How To: Be a house husband

Learn how to be a stay at home husband. It's not an easy job and as time moves on more and more blokes are making the move to staying at home. It is a hard job as you have to be a psychologist, doctor, nurse, mother, cook, cleaner and teacher to name a few!!!

How To: Dress a baby

Dressing a baby is a piece of cake—that is, after you’ve mastered a few tricks for maneuvering her head and limbs through those tiny neck and arm and leg holes.

How To: Give a baby a bottle

Whether you're feeding your baby formula or freshly pumped breast milk, holding his body and angling the bottle just so will make for a happy meal.

How To: Change a disposable diaper quickly

Dealing with wet or poopy diapers is the most thankless job of parenting—but, thankfully, disposable diapers can help you make quick work of it.

How To: Change a cloth diaper

How to change a baby's cloth diaper is demonstrated in this video.

How To: Give a baby a sponge bath

Your newborn can't have a tub bath until her belly button heals. Until then, a thorough once-over with a washcloth every two or three days will keep her plenty clean.

How To: Relieve a baby's stuffy nose

Babies under 4 months old can only breathe through their noses, so when they get congested it can be hard for them to nurse. Here are some ways to help a stuffed-up infant breathe easier.

How To: Burp a baby

Whether nursing or taking a bottle, babies tend to suck in air as they eat. Burping helps them get the bubbles out—and heads off little tummy aches at the pass.

How To: Swaddle a baby

Newborns are used to the coziness of the womb. Recreating that environment is a great way to calm a baby during her first few months in the big wide world.

How To: Use a breast pump

Another method of feeding your newborn, when breastfeeding all the time is not an option, is to use what's called a "breast pump." Express your milk when convenient without sacrificing your schedule. Use a breast pump.

How To: Buckle a baby into a car seat

The right way to use a car seat and ensure your infant's safety. Buckle a baby into a car seat.

How To: Teach your child the parts of the body

This video shows you how to teach the parts of the body. You can watch this video with your child or you can point to the parts of the body on yourself and then on your child. Teach your child the parts of the body.

How To: Get your baby to latch on correctly when breastfeeding

The most important part of breastfeeding is getting the baby to latch on correctly. Find out the best breastfeeding positions so your baby can get the proper latch. The second part gives extra advice for women with flat or inverted nipples.

How To: Soothe and heal chapped nipples

On today's panel discussion the moms reveal the cure to chapped breasts; lanolin cream. Lanolin cream, which can be purchased at any drugstore, helps soothe and heal sore, tender, or chapped nipples. The best part of using pure lanolin is it's edible so it's not toxic to your baby.

How To: Give your child a real life lesson in manners

When your child is well-behaved, it says as much about you as it does about her! Here, tips for teaching your child the importance of manners. Give your child a real life lesson in manners.

How To: Prepare your child for the real world

The world can be cruel to growing children. Give your child the tools to deal with life's setbacks. Prepare your child for the real world.

How To: Avoid empty threats when disciplining children

Following through with discipline is the best way to get your kid to behave. Don't threaten to throw child's toys away if they don't clean up. A follow through would be to throw the toys away! Avoid empty threats when disciplining children.

How To: Help a preschooler hop on one leg

For preschoolers hopping on one leg is not only healthy, but also great for working on body control.

How To: Sing a song about bubbles with a preschooler

For preschoolers a rhyming song with hand movements. Singing songs with your child is wonderful for many reasons. The most important reason is that singing is it is fun and children love to sing. Songs are great for increasing vocabulary and pronunciation. Using hand and body movements with songs and rhymes helps preschoolers learn to control their bodies. There is even research that has shown that children who are actively involved in music do better in reading and math when they start schoo...

How To: Teach a preschooler the "Baby Bumble Bee" song

For preschoolers a rhyming song. Also, your child will us their imagination.

How To: Teach young children about dental cleaning of teeth

This video is for children to see and learn how a dentist cleans their teeth. Cullen brings Alligator to Dr. Keller the dentist for a teeth cleaning. Dr. Keller cleans the Alligators teeth to show children what to expect and feel comfortable when visiting the dentist for a teeth cleaning.

How To: Do the Halloween brown owl chant with a preschooler

For preschoolers this is lesson tune that works on animal identification and color recognition. It includes lots of Halloween themed and colored items like a skeleton, spider, and black cat. Preschool video lesson tunes are short songs or chants with an educational message done to a familiar tune. Music is used as tool to teach or communicate a message. Repetition is used to reinforce learning, and children love repetition. Hand and body movements are used to help deliver the message and for ...

How To: Sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

All of us remember "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" for a reason. As a fond part of our childhood, it was a song that taught us about the wonders of the sky while also connecting us with our parents, who learned the song from their parents before them. Continue the tradition by teaching your kids how to sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

How To: Teach the the days of the week with a song

Knowing the days of the week is one of the most basic skills your child needs to know now and for the rest of his or her life. And what better way to introduce your kid to the week than with a fun, catchy song?

How To: Do the rhyme "Five Little Pumpkins"

For preschoolers the popular Five Little Pumpkin rhyme is done with hand movements and counting skills are incorporated.

How To: Teach shapes with a song for preschoolers

This lesson tune works on shape recognition. Lesson tunes are short songs or chants to a familiar tune with an educational message. Music is used as tool to teach or communicate a message. Repetition is also used in these lesson tunes to reinforce learning, and children love repetition. Hand and body movements are used to help preschoolers learn to control their bodies Lesson tunes are even great for using increasing vocabulary, English, and pronunciation.

How To: Learn a song about washing hands for preschoolers

This lesson tune teaches the importance of clean hands and how to wash your hands. The length of the tune is designed to match the time a child should spend washing their hands. If you child just want to sing the tune with out the introductory teachings watch the preschool video titled: We Are Washing Our Hands Lesson Tune.” Lesson tunes are short songs or chants to a familiar tune with an educational message. Music is used as tool to teach or communicate a message. Repetition is also used in...

How To: Help kids understand civil rights and racism

Having universal rights for all genders and colors. Segregation was wide spread. In 1954 the law said that it was unconstitutional for schools be divided because of color. It took some time for these laws to be enforced. 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech. Help kids understand civil rights and racism.

How To: Help children understand steroids

A steroid are a group of fatty substances or lipids found in the body. Sometimes people take steroids for the wrong reason. Anabolic steroids increases muscle mass. Most professional sports and the Olympics test for it. There are many side effects to taking steroids. Many hight school and college athletes take steroids and this is dumb. Help children understand steroids.