As you get ready for the celebration, think back on the last 12 months as a time of incredible growth and development ... to achieve now that they are 1 year old. Your baby’s weight has likely ...

These early forms of communication are setting the stage for blossoming emotional and social development. One-year-olds "are curious and show a variety of different emotions," says Dr. Housman.

Rosslund's team also found that the link between shared reading and vocabulary development in 1-year-olds was even stronger in families where Mom had less formal education. They said this holds ...