Joanna Fortune: My baby grandson hardly smiles and seems serious 

"At this age, we are our children’s teachers and best playmates. Our singing, dancing, clapping and swaying with them is all the play they need."

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I’m worried about my one-year-old grandchild who rarely smiles. He has hit all his developmental milestones but seems quite serious. I remember my children being full of laughter at his age. Maybe it’s his personality and I need to accept him for who he is. But I can’t help but worry.

Our understandable desire to ‘know’ our children are healthy can sometimes lead to us holding unrealistic expectations of them, which in turn causes us more worry.