CAREABOUTKIDS

PARENTS: Parents often worry needlessly about averages and norms. Discussing concerns with a pediarician may help the worried parents. As children learn right from wrong and adopt values and ideas, they become more aware of the effect of their actions on themselves and others. Give books as gifts. Let your children know you think books are important. Have children read aloud while you cook, iron, sew sort laundry.Children's play is full of the content of their lives; it is a process, not a product. Children continually check and correct mistakes by monitoring one another. MY WORD Growing up is a journey that each child enjoys in different ways.