Object Permanence

October 18, 2023

Peek-a-boo is both a real crowd pleaser AND an important tool in building object permanence. Try explaining how peek-a-boo helps babies to understand that even when they can’t see, hear or touch something, it still exists! This key developmental concept helps explain separation anxiety in the future.

Labeling Body Parts

October 11, 2023

Before a baby can label body parts, they are learning through touch and connection. Try suggesting to parents to label body parts as they wash them in the bathtub, tickle them on the changing table, or as they cuddle and kiss them throughout the day.

Parentese

October 4, 2023

Modeling the sing-song, exaggerated, high pitched voice known as parentese, is an easy way to support connection and language development in your visits with infants. Research shows that parentese helps babies to learn language more easily PLUS hearing the sound of familiar voices helps babies soothe from the start.

Emergency Preparedness

September 27, 2023

All caregivers worry about safety on a daily basis. While keeping young kids safe involves many steps, an important start is ensuring that children memorize their address & parents’ cell phone number. In your visits today, remind parents to review this information early and often.

Offering Choices

September 20, 2023

Using choices can help manage power struggles, support independence, improve confidence, and build self-esteem. Remind parents to offer young children two acceptable choices to pick from in order to help them to feel in control, and allow children to begin to exert their own decision-making power.

Praising Effort, Not Success

September 13, 2023

It is already well documented that praising effort is as important, if not more, as praising success. This recent study shows that this is true in infancy, too. When parents time their praise in accordance with children’s efforts, children showed more persistence on challenging tasks.

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