Tips+for+Parents

= 10 Ways to Give Your Baby a Great Start in Life = =What you do with your child in the first years of life will greatly impact adulthood. Below are 10 ways to get your child off to a great start! =

 1. Hold your Baby: Loving touch is a powerful way to stimulate positive mental, physical, and social development.

2. Respond to Your Baby’s Signals: Try to understand what your baby is feeling or telling you through facial expressions, movements, or sounds. Sensitive responses build a child’s sense of trust, personal attachments, and self-esteem.

3. Fill Your Baby’s Day with Language: From infancy children absorb sounds around them. They learn to recognize particular voices, sentence rhythms, and word meanings.

4. Play With Your Baby: Have fun together! The greatest gifts you can give your child are your time and attention.

5. Establish Routine Schedules: A child enjoys the security of certain routines such as a reading time or bed time stories.

6. Encourage Safe Exploration and Play: As your child grows, provide safe ways to experience the world. Introduce a variety of tastes, sights, sounds, and things to touch.

7. Give your Child a Healthy Start: Make sure your child has regular check-ups, up-to-date immunizations, plenty of rest and a well-balanced diet.

8. Recognize That Each Child is Unique: Every child has individual temperaments, talents, appearances, growth and development patterns. Never compare children.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">9. Emphasize the Positive: Say positive things to your child. Affirm your child strengths to encourage self-esteem.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">10. Take Care of Yourself: If you are tired, unhappy, or irritable, your child will suffer. Get enough rest, maintain supportive relationships, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">add interesting experiences or hobbies to your life!