Advice and Information

Let Southwest Human Development be your resource for advice and information on caring for young children.

Choose a topic below to see strategies for developing and maintaining healthy, positive relationships with your child from our early childhood experts.

• Reading with Young Children
• Bonding, Attachment and Adoption
• Development, Literacy and Storytelling
• Tackling Tantrums
• Preschool and Your Child
• Birth of a New Sibling
• Impact of Financial Problems
• Sleep Tips

Read our blog posts on Babies to Big Kids, a collaboration between Southwest Human Development and Raising Arizona Kids magazine. Topics include sleep tips, healthy eating, relationships, medication and more.

Contact our free Birth to Five Helpline and speak with one of our early childhood professionals. Call our toll-free number: 1-877-705-KIDS (5437), or submit your question online.

Listen to Daniel B. Kessler, MD, medical director for the Children's Developmental Center, talk about medication myths, Internet misinformation and why celebrating individual differences is the key to meeting the needs of any child on this Raising Arizona Kids magazine podcast.

Learn how parents can seek help from developmental and behavioral pediatricians when they are concered that their child is not learning or acting as well as might be expected for his/her age, in this article from Daniel B. Kessler, MD

Listen to Dr. Kessler of Daniel B. Kessler, MD and Associates, discuss how to nurture healthy eating habits from the start in the podcast series, Little Kids, Big Questions from ZERO TO THREE.