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Nurture

Your child’s first relationships with the people around him provide the foundation for his healthy social and emotional development. This section discusses stages of your baby’s emotional development and how to help him build skills that allow him to interact with the world with confidence and joy.

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    As your baby’s guide, you are in charge of setting limits and creating boundaries for her. Sometimes it can be challenging to know when your child i...

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    Seek Balance in Activity

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    Empathy is considered one of the most influential components of emotional intelligence. Here are several parenting strategies that you can incorporate...

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    Empathy and Compassion

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    Confidence is a positive attitude toward, perception of, and belief in one’s abilities. Confidence broadens your child’s world and opportunities a...

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    Confidence

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    Your child learns by taking in the world around him and then imitating what he absorbs. Your emotional regulation creates the emotional climate for yo...

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    Be a Role Model

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    Even though each hemisphere may have its special functions, your child needs both sides of her brain to work together for optimal results in her thoug...

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    Right and Left Brain

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    As children’s experiences become more complex, childhood stress is becoming more common. Many parents want their children’s lives to be easy and s...

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    Manage Stress

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Nurture

Whatever the makeup of your family, these are the people who will bond with your child for life and help shape the person he becomes. Although a child...

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Other Family Members

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As your baby’s guide, you are in charge of setting limits and creating boundaries for her. Sometimes it can be challenging to know when your child i...

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Seek Balance in Activity

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Skills of self-regulation, such as impulse control, delay of gratification, and adherence to social rules are easier to learn and reinforce through ro...

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Self-regulation

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Self-awareness is the core skill on which the other essential emotional skills rely. Your baby must be aware of himself in order to be confident, to e...

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Self-awareness

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Here are the general steps of friendship development, along with the ages at which you can expect your child to take those steps. Remember that every ...

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Forming Friendships

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Your baby’s cognitive development is interrelated with his sense of humor. Humor is a form of play, and play is how children learn. A good sense of ...

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Cultivate Humor

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Empathy is considered one of the most influential components of emotional intelligence. Here are several parenting strategies that you can incorporate...

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Empathy and Compassion

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Cooperation begins at home and branches out as your child has more experiences in the wider world. This will pave the way for meaningful, lasting rela...

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Cooperation

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Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. Guide
By Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. The Whole Baby Guide. ™

A comprehensive and accessible resource for natural baby care. Nurture your baby with nature's principles for a radiant life. Grow Healthy. Grow Happy. The Whole Baby Guide is a complete resource for parents to give their babies a healthy beginning for the first three years.

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