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Good Parenting Tips |
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- Maintain your childs high spirits and enthusiasm by learning not to be too over protective
- If children live with ridicule they learn to be shy
- Make learning and playing a child bonding oppourtunity by praising and showing plenty of physical affection.
- Take care not to expect too much from your little ones too soon, too early.
- Always encourage your child’s curiosity and have realistic expectations for them.
- If children live with shame they learn to feel guilty.
- If children live with encouragement they learn to be confident.
- If children live with tolerance they learn to be patient.
- The best training any parent can give a child is to train a child to train temselves.
- If children live with praise they learn to appreciate.
- If children live with security they learn to have faith.
- If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
- Take care not to spoil your kids by doing too much for them early on.
- Let your child set their own pace as this will encourage inner thought and self reliance.
- Be ambitious and encouraging without worrying too much about how they will turn out.
- Encourage your childs enthusiasm when they are showing signs of frustration.
- Introduce rewards when your child completes small tasks to instill confidence.
- If children live with acceptance & friendship they learn to find love in the world.
- If children live with criticism they learn to condemn
- Demonstrate your interest in their toys and their own level of interest will increase.
- Don’t worry if your child is unable to complete a task, in time they will learn themselves.
- If children live with hostility they learn to fight.
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Reading & Writing Tips |
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STAGE 1 (1-2 yrs) |
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- Read to your child often
- Let your child see you enjoying books
- Encourage your child to talk about what they see
- Let them play with crayons
- Make stories fun with funny voices and sounds
- Introduce the alphabet
- Point out words around them in signs, posters, etc.
- Help their hand- to- eye coordination with simple sport and active games.
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STAGE 2 (2-3 yrs) |
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- Let your child turn the pages of the book when you read to them
- Use a variety of voices
- Choose simple books with clear pictures
- Encourage your child to recognize the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet
- Encourage them to recognize letters by tracing over them
- Allow them to pay with a pencil and crayons.
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STAGE 3 ( 3-5 yrs) |
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- Enjoy sharing rhymes and interactive books
- Let your child talk about books you read together
- Choose short stories keep reading sessions brief
- Read stories more than once so that you can enjoy them together
- Give lots of praise
- Help them write their name with a capital letter at the start
- Encourage them to experiment with writing.
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