In order to help your child’s development it is important to
- show them love, it sound so obvious but some people have trouble doing this. Hug, kiss, smile, encourage, listen to, and
play with your child whenever you can, if you have household chores to do, ask them to help, to show your child you
enjoy spending time with him .
- Care for your child's basic needs, food, comfort and sleep. For your child to be able to devote his energy to learning
and growing, they need to be well fed. They also needs to be healthy, well rested, and comfortable. Make sure you feed a balanced
diet that you try to follow a good sleep pattern, during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep your child's brain cells are making
important connections. These synapses, as they're called, are the pathways that enable all learning, movement, and thought.
They are the key to your child understanding all he is seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling as he explores the
world. its really important that you change their nappies very regularly, wet or dirty nappies are uncomfortable and distracting.
- to keep your child healthy, take him in for regular checkups, keep their injections up to date, If you're worried about
your toddler's sleeping or eating patterns, talk to your doctor.
- talk to your child, it is so important, research shows that children whose parents spoke to them extensively as young
babies have significantly higher IQs and richer vocabularies than kids who didn't receive much verbal stimulation. If you
find it hard to come up with things to say just describe what you are doing try to avoid baby talk. remember babies learn
by listening.
- Try to build your toddlers self esteem, toddlers are still just realising they're separate people. Toddlers slowly
build up a sense of self. Gradually, they learns what he looks like and works out the things he can do. Some of the more difficult
types of behaviour your toddler might display, which you may find hard to cope with, happen as a result of him beginning to
realise he's a separate person with a mind of his own. He's also learnt he doesn't actually have to stay where you've put
him or do exactly as he's told. It is important that you reassure your child that you love them and you are proud of them
give praise as much as possible. If you have to challenge their behaviour explain why so they can understand and learn from
their mistake.
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