Birth – 1 Year
A Strong Start for Life
Education grows out from the close and continuous relationship that results from caregiving. Lifelong learning and attitudes can be initiated on the diapering counter while babies are being washed, dressed, and groomed, and during feeding times.
Development, learning, and attachment are vitally related. From attachment come feelings of trust and security, which in turn is critical for the babies to explore and learn.
Common Scenario: Babies are often bound to cribs, car seats, slings.
In a way, being left alone, without much sensory input, but more important without attachment, as a result they might fail to thrive. Adding mobiles, music boxes, or dangling objects to the crib isn’t the answer.
What babies need is to perceive their own involvement in stimulating experiences. Their involvement comes when they are able to have some effect on that is, interact with—the people and things that are part of the experiences.
We hope that the curated list of articles:
- Speak to you, putting into words the development you see occurring each day with children from birth.
- Support you in understanding and propagating effective practices of child development
- Make you better equipped to plan for intentional interactions with your child
- Strengthen your commitment to respectful, responsive & reciprocal relationships with your child
- Enhance your belief system around the individual nature of the developmental trajectory and the crucial role that family and context play in each child’s development
