In the first year of life, you have watched your baby grow from a tiny helpless newborn to a real little person with a personality of his or her own beginning to emerge. Between the ages of one and five years, your child will continue this development at an astonishing rate. At one, he or she is beginning to talk and use simple words, by five he or she will be telling complex stories and possibly even beginning to read and write!

To help you follow, and encourage, your child's development, we've put togther a series of articles on the stages he or she may go thru as they navigate toddlerdom and the preschool years.