Baby Sitters Guide for Toddlers

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Baby Sitters Guide for Toddlers

• Books and Movies

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It is never too early to read to your child

• The early start will encourage your child to love
  books.
• Reading time helps children to see how books can
  be very entertaining.

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Reading relaxes children

• Reading before bedtime.
• For long trips in the car.
• For self-activity.

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Reading is a wonderful long life habit

• Reading opens up a child's imagination.
• Kids learn new games and songs too!

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Early Learning is the key to success in life

• Language- Language ability has been found to be
  an important predictor of reading ability.
• Give your child maximum opportunity for language
  development

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Before the age of 7, a child has a phenomenal
ability to learn language

• My daughter is 2 years and 8 months old, and we
  are bilingual. We have been teaching her to speak
  two languages since she was born. Today she
  understands and follows commands in the two
  languages.

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Study by High/Scope Educational Research
Foundation of Ypsilanti, Michigan

• 123 kids born in poverty with high risk of
  failing in school were divided in two groups-one
  exposed to high quality preschool programs, the
  other was not exposed to any preschool program.
• At age 27, 71 of those attending the preschool
  program graduated from high school vs. 54 to
  those with no preschool exposure.
  
  

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"Education is the great engine to personal
development. It is through education that the
daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that
the son of a mineworker can become the head of
the mine, that the child of a farm worker can
become the president of a great nation."

• Neslon Mandela

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Movies

• Toddlers learn and copy everything they see
  from parents, from other children and from TV as
  well.
• Children repeat and remember what they have seen
  and heard, so every parent and babysitter should
  be careful what they teach and show to a child.

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The time toddlers spend watching movies should be
limited

• Toddlers should not be watching violent movies.
• Example a child that watches violent movie is
  more likely to repeat the violent behavior
  afterwards.

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Lack of exercise and too much television

• Children burn only fewer calories while watching
  movies than they would if they were playing.
• Also 60 of the commercials shown on Saturday
  morning cartoons on U.S. television are for food
  products!

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Work Cites

• http//e-magazine.adoption.com/article.php?article
  id286
• http//foster-parenting.adoption.com/basics/creati
  ve/library.php
• The developing Person through the Life Span ,
  Kathleen S. Berger