May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so I’d like to help you support the mental health of infants and young children! According to Zero to Three, infant and early childhood mental health is “the developing capacity of the child from birth to 5 years of age to form close and secure adult and peer relationships. […]
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Playing with Infants and toddlers is the best way for us to support all their learning and development, including language. Through play, young children are learning how to communicate. They learn how the world works. They learn to put their thoughts into words. They begin to understand that words are symbols that stand for real objects or
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Relationships between adults and children are incredibly important for children’s development, especially in early childhood. Close relationships help to build children’s brains, setting the foundation for their lifelong learning, behavior and health.Relationships are built over time, through “serve and return” interactions between adult and child. Every minute we spend building our relationships with children is
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