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Attend Family Events
Enjoy each other and continue to build the relationship between you and your child as you attend family events.
Becoming close to your child will encourage your closeness during the early years, the elementary years, the middle school years, the high school years, the college years and the adult years.
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Good sleep practices will help your child be a happier person...
Be alert to your child's cue to when he/she is sleepy. When you child is drowsy, put him/her to bed. Establish the bedtime routine around the same time each night.
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Bond with your child. Make eye contact and hold him close. This will help him to experience love and affection through the senses.
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Understand and respond to your child's needs.
You cannot spoil an infant.
Tip: Go to him when he fusses or cries.
By responding to your child, you teach him that you care and that he can trust you to read his signals.
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Get the most out of playtime!
Think on the developmental level of the child who you are playing with.
Tip: Create imaginative games and new ways to use toys and safe household objects to add to the play experience.
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Get the most out of playtime.
Encouraging exploration, creative play and "make believe" enhances the development of imagination.
Tip: Forget the rules and let your child take the lead! Allow your child and yourself to explore, create, and make believe together.
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Get the most that you can out of playtime!
Tip: Jump right in and play with your child.
Playing together right from the start helps to build the foundation for trusting relationships and helps him become a happier person as a baby, a child, a teen, a young adult and an adult.
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Bond with your child by giving your child love and affection.
Help him to experiment through his senses. Seeing, hearing, touching, moving, smelling
Tip: Make eye contact by allowing him to see your facial expressions. Hold him close by carrying him close, sitting him on your lap and hugging him. Provide gentle motion by rocking him in your arms, bouncing him on your lap and gently tickling him. These things provide the touch and smell that is needed for a healthy relationship.
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Creating a predictable world for your child teaches a child that you and the world around her are trustworthy. If your child understands this, she will spend less energy fussing over her needs and more time learning.
Tip: Provide routines to build trust
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Provide a warm and loving environment
Helping your child feel safe is the key to encouraging her healthy growth and development. Make sure you give her a lot of affection.
Tip: During your pregnancy, bond with your child by rubbing your belly and talking calmly and lovingly. Give your child at least three hugs per day from birth through her high school years and beyond.
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Comforting your child may not always be easy.
Until you figure out what works to calm her, experiment with: walking, singing, feeding, swaddling, holding, massaging or swaying.
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Take simple steps to connect with your child
Give your child the best possible start in life.
Tip: Take care of yourself so you can take care of your child. Being a parent can be overwhelming. Unless you take care of yourself, it will be hard to take good care of your child. Don't be afraid to ask for help caring for your child.
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If a child learns lots of words when he is younger, he will become a better reader.
Tip: Have your child say the new word. Ask her a question about it to make sure she understands.
