Parenting Your Four-Year-Old

Typical four-year-olds confront challenges and relationships that are brand new to them, and which are sometimes perplexing to their parents. Described here are an average four-year-old's physical abilities, growing sense of independence, language, cognitive, and emotional development, moral awareness, fears and anxieties, developing social relationships, patterns of play, relations with siblings, and first school experiences. Special challenges treated include name-calling, safety, explaining birth and death, and more.