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Settling in at childcare: the early weeks

Child care is a new environment for your child, with new people and new routines. Your child’s transition to child care is more likely to go well if you start getting ready for child care well ahead of time. Also, starting slowly is important. For example, if it works for your family, you could start with short days at child care and stay with your child. Then you could leave your child for short periods, building up to leaving your child for a whole day.

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Child Development

Children’s growth charts

Children’s physical growth is a sign of their overall health and development. Growth patterns vary among children, and children go through periods of fast and slow growth. But children’s growth usually follows a typical pattern over time.

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Child Development

Baby development and developmental milestones

Baby development in the first 12 months is amazing. Through warm and responsive interactions with you and other caregivers, as well as play, babies learn to communicate, think, move, express emotions and much more.

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Child Development

Singing activity for children: songs in a second language

Singing is a fun way to help your child learn and remember words and sentence structure in a second language. When your child sings songs with repeated words or choruses, they get a lot of practice with new words and sentence structures. This helps your child remember these new words. Songs with a cultural or personal significance – for example, songs passed down in your family – can have extra meaning for your child.

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Child Development

Positive attention and your child

From birth, children need experiences and relationships that show them they’re valued, capable human beings who make other people happy. Positive attention, reactions and responses from familiar and trusted grown-ups help children build a picture of how valued they are.

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Child Development

Overstimulation: babies and children

Overstimulation happens when children are overwhelmed by more experiences, sensations, noise and activity than they can cope with.

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Child Development

Self-regulation: children and teenagers

What is self-regulation? Self-regulation is the ability to understand and manage your: behaviour reactions to your own emotions reactions to what’s happening around you.

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Child Development

Why is play important?

Play is central to your child’s learning and development. When your child plays, it gives them many ways and times to learn.

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