Category: No Mess

  • Joining in with Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to begin playing with a friend

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child what they usually do when they want to start playing with a friend.
    2. Share three steps they can try:
      • Step 1: Wait
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  • Naming My Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to identify the emotions they feel

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to talk about different kinds of feelings they know about. Examples:
      • Happy
      • Sad
      • Scared
      • Mad
      • Surprised
      • Excited
      • Worried
      • Frustrated
    2. Invite your child
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  • Uh Oh! It Was An Accident!

    Your Child Will Learn

    • How their actions affect others and how to apologize

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk with your child about what an accident means, and some examples of recent accidents (like: this morning I spilled the milk on
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  • Caring and Helping

    Your Child Will Learn

    Ways to show kindness to others

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Play a game of pretend to practice showing kindness. First, ask your child to pretend they have a hurt foot, and show ways you can help
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  • Making Friends

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make a friend

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose two stuffed animals (or dolls or action figures).
    2. Use the animals to play pretend, with your child being the voice for one animal and you being
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  • Belly Breathe

    Your Child Will Learn

    A breathing technique to help calm down before bedtime (or anytime!)

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the end of your child’s bedtime routine, ask them to take a deep breath while lying down in their bed. 
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  • Let’s Go to the Library

    Your Child Will Learn

    That they can find some favorite books at the library and take them home!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Go to your local library and find the infant and toddler part of the children’s section. Many libraries
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  • Our Family Dinner Menu

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use drawings and words to communicate the menu for family dinners

    Here’s What to Do

    1. On a large piece of paper, drawing 5 big circles or squares and label them with the days of the week;
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  • Texture Tales

    Your Child Will Learn

    To look at and interact with books.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a board book with different textures your child can touch. (Or, tell a story out loud and have your child touch the textures of
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  • Label Your Home

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify letters and their sounds

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before you begin, use post-it notes or small sheets of paper to write labels for 10 objects in your home. Make sure some of the names
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