| Parent/Child Communication |
 Book of Jenny: Every baby communicates in his or her own way with special cues. It is your job to interpret what your baby is saying with these little signals. |
 Parentese: Babies love to hear Parentese, the sing-song speech that many parents naturally use to help their baby learn sounds and words. |
 Keep Talking: Kids- and babies- need conversation to help them learn. Turns out, it’s easier than you may think to keep talking through out the day. |
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| Emotions |
 Rough Day: When you are stressed, do your kids know it? Kids learn how to cope with stress by watching what you do in stressful situations. |
 Morning Madness: Life gets busy and sometimes there’s not time to talk to your child. But later is better than not at all. |
 Tantrums Happen!: Temper tantrums are part of normal development and a child's way of dealing with emotional overload. |
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| Exploring |
 Copycats: Whether you hum when you’re happy or stomp your foot when you’re mad, your kids are learning from you every day and in every way. |
 Testing 1,2,3: Toddlers need to test everything in their environment, over and over and over again. Many times, they also test you! |
 Careful Frank: Your child is learning what’s okay and what’s not by reading your expressions and watching your gestures. |
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| Emergent Literacy |
 Dad’s Club: Reading together is more than just the words and pictures, it’s about time spent with your child. |
 Grandma’s Horse: It doesn’t take books to share the fun of a story! Sharing stories is a great way to spend time with your child. |
 Gone Fishing: The world is filled with words and signs. Reading them aloud helps a child make sense of the world around him. |
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