PDL Unit Parenting Review

What is a key component of personal readiness?

• management skills

• time management

• team collaboration

• creativity

Emotional readiness

• -patience

• -mature

• -self control

• -self-confidence

Financial readiness

• -manage your money

• -afford the expenses

• -invest in stocks

• -save for retirement

Stable Relationships

• A consistent caretaker helps a baby feel secure by providing a familiar environment.

• Stress in babies is solely caused by external factors, not hormones.

• Caregivers should avoid allowing babies to explore their surroundings.

• The presence of a caregiver increases a baby's cortisol levels.

Communication

• Babies can duplicate sounds at 6 months

• Messages are sent and received

• Babies can distinguish differences in sounds

• Plasticity (brain's ability to rewire itself)

Quality Child Care

• The earlier education starts, the more power the brain has to make connections

• Plasticity

• Safe environment

• Ideal ratio between child and caregiver

Play

• -children learn everything thru this

• -only for entertainment purposes

• -not important for development

• -only involves physical activity

Touch

• -provides reassurance

• -as critical as vitamins

• -rocking, talking, holding

• -promotes faster physical growth

Interaction

• -crucial to brain development

• -senses begin immediately

• -build relationship with baby during feeding, touching, playing and tone of voice

• -has no impact on emotional growth

Self Esteem

• Babies are little sponges; they soak up everything exposed to them.

• Self-esteem is solely determined by academic success.

• Negative comments have no impact on a child's development.

• Self-esteem is fixed and cannot be changed.