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Parenting and the Development of Children’s Emotions Ever wondered how children learn to share their feelings? Studies reveal that three main factors observed in parents help determine how children will express their emotions. These are: 1) how parents display their own emotions, 2) how parents respond to the child's emotions, 3) and the family's overall emotional demeanor. Learn more from this video and article, in English and Spanish.
Parenting Knowledge Among First-time Parents of Young Children Early care and education professionals play an important role in providing parents with research and evidence-based information about child development, best practice and parenting. This research to practice brief from Child Trends, finds that first-time parents of infants and toddlers across all racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds have difficulty obtaining clear and trustworthy information about parenting. Document
Parents learn, babies talk: How Coaching moms and dads Leads to Better Language Skills among Infants When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it’s not just how much parents say, but how they say it.  Speaking directly to the baby with a style of speech known as “parentese” — talking slowly and clearly, often with exaggerated vowels and intonation — appears to improve infant language development. A new study from the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) shows that parents who learn how and why to speak parentese can have a direct impact on their children’s vocabulary.
Parents’ Prescription: Talk, Read, and Sing Just before parents leave the hospital with their newborn for the first time, doctors go through a list of discharge instructions, including guidelines for how to keep their baby healthy and safe. As families return to pediatricians for regular wellness checks, there is one topic that many pediatricians never address, yet one physician-scientist says should get top billing.
Pets in the Family Child Care Setting Guidelines, precautions, and tips for providers with pets in the FCC to ensure all children, adults, and animals are healthy and safe. Tipsheet
Physical Developmental Delays: What to look for The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently launched Physical Developmental Delays: What to Look For, an interactive online tool for parents of children ages 5 and under to use when they are concerned about their child's motor development. Health care providers who are approached with these concerns can refer to the AAP clinical report, Motor Delays: Early Identification and Evaluation, which includes an algorithm to guide developmental surveillance and screening, red flags signaling a need for prompt referral, and recommendations, including appropriate testing. Website
Physiologic Hearing Screening for Infants and Toddlers This instructional package discusses the importance of periodic, physiologic hearing screening for infants and toddlers. It provides practical guidance for health care providers on how Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) hearing screening can be conducted during well-child visits. Website
Play Activities to Encourage Motor Development in Child Care Child Care Play is crucial to the development of children's gross and fine motor skills. Through play, children practice and perfect control and coordination of large body movements, as well as small movements of hands and fingers. Child care providers can support young children's motor development by planning play activities that provide children with regular opportunities to move their bodies. Website
Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting In this video from the Center of the Developing Child at Harvard University, "learn more about how play can foster children’s resilience to hardship, and how the complex interactions involved when children play help build their brains."
Play--Play Skills are Developmental Too: Part One In this podcast, we look at children’s development from infant stages through older preschool to explore what types of play children should typically be engaged in at different ages. Play is both developmental and learned so children need our help in acquiring skills that help them move from stage to stage. We will set the foundation for talking about some of the challenges children may face in their play. Podcast
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