Today your little one builds a whole person, from head to toe, out of snack food. It's a body-parts lesson you can eat, and it always ends in giggles when someone takes the first bite out of a leg.

Toddlers learn body parts fastest by pointing, moving and naming. Today, go beyond head, shoulders, knees and toes: talk about what each part does. Eyes help us see, ears help us hear, legs help us run. Pediatric experts also recommend using the correct names for all body parts, including private pa

Today your child makes a portrait, but not with crayons. They'll hunt through old magazines for eyes, noses, mouths and hair, then glue them onto a paper plate to make a face. The results are usually hilarious, and that's the point.

If there's one book we'd want every kid to hear on repeat, it might be this one. I Like Myself!, written by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by David Catrow, is a joyful, rhyming shout of self-confidence.