The Brain Building series presents an interesting fact about early childhood that can help parents, grandparents, and caregivers nurture children’s developing brains in their first five years. You can expect it in your inbox on the first Monday of every month.
Brain Building
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Games challenge children in positive ways.
Most infants are ready to bond immediately!
During play, kids learn to cope with emotions like fear, frustration, anger and aggression.
Continue to read to your child. Nurture their love for books by taking them to the library or bookstore.
Help your baby connect words to meaning by using gestures when you speak with them.
Your baby can orient toward your voice and change what they're doing in response to you.
85% of brain growth occurs in the first three years of life.
Healthy food helps grow a healthy baby.
A 15 month old claps when excited.
By 3 years of age, your child copies adults and friends.
Use books to distract or calm your child while waiting.
Breastfeeding is a natural, beautiful process that helps create intimacy and bonding between mom & baby.
Stress disables learning.
Continue to read to your child. Nurture their love for books by taking them to the library or bookstore.
Stable, caring relationships are essential for healthy development.
For this and many other reasons, early education is to be considered a serious matter!
Our children are still learning, growing and developing.
Help your baby try, try again.
Your baby will start making sense of all the impressions that they've been busy absorbing these last few weeks.
Rubbing, patting or touching your tummy throughout the day are other ways to communicate with your unborn baby.
Bonding is a byproduct of everyday caregiving, for both the baby and the parent.
Most infants are ready to bond immediately!
Quantity and quality of nourishing language, like healthy food, is critical to brain development.
When you build a reader, you encourage early literacy.