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interaction* food & diet* family ties*health
& safety* discipline*
in focus: toddler
Building your toddler’s
social skills
As anyone with a toddler knows, handling social situations at
times can be fraught anxiety and even acute embarrassment
sometimes. In order for us to realise just how ‘primitive’ our young
children’s social interactions are we need to understand something
about child development and age appropriateness.
Toddler Perception mother, baby & child April 2011
According to Carmen
Benton, a LifeWorks
Parenting Educator, in
order for us to realise just
how ‘primitive’ our young
children’s social interactions
are we need to understand
something about child
development and age
appropriateness. “Children,
for example, do not realise
that there are people other
than themselves in the
world until they are between
14 and 24 months,” she
says and therefore a baby
looking into a mirror does
not realise they are looking
at themselves and instead
sees a stranger looking back
at them.
Parents
Parents are a child’s most
important teachers, points
out Gurkamal Punia Dasani,
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