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Promoting social-emotional development (ages 2-4)
Here are a few suggestions for developing your preschoolers social/emotional development.
Your preschooler is beginning to find more and more positive ways to express emotion. His social skills are developing and he will probably be asking lots of questions!
Enjoy the suggestions we have for playing and learning with your child:
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Enjoy the suggestions we have for playing and learning with your child:
- Organize play dates for your child so he can practice social skills such as cooperation, sharing and being creative.
- Allow time for your child to solve some problems on his own. It's hard not to jump in and "save' him, but he needs to move towards being independent. When children solve their own problems they gain a great sense of achievement. Even if it is a simple task such as doing up buttons on a shirt.
- Try to answer questions with short and simple language.
- Express pride in your preschooler when they do something right.
- Take advantage of quiet moments to talk about how to solve conflict.
- Read to your child everyday. Join the local library and go every week so your child can choose her own books and express her personal interests.Try Quick As a Cricket, Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Day and You're All My Favorites
- Look into your child's eyes when speaking - new research shows this helps with discipline.
- Model good manners - remember to say 'please', 'thank you' and 'I'm sorry'.
- Help your child make a book about himself. You could use photos or drawings. Ask him to tell you what to write in it. Then you can take it in turns "reading" it to each other.
- Talk about fears. This lets your child know that it is perfectly normal to feel afraid and that all children feel this way at times. Ask your child what would make them feel better and practice this with them so they can develop good coping strategies from an early age.
- Remember to hug your child and say 'I love you' .
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